Shop here for serious - and expensive - fashions in clothing, home decor and lifestyle.
Anchored by a Harvey Nichols (one of the UK's top fashion department stores), this is a quiet, multi story development with several hair salons and spas, and a small but exclusive clutch of designer shops.
The Birmingham Malmaison Hotelsits alongside the shopping mall and waterside, along the Gas Street Basin, there are more than a dozen restaurants and bars to choose from. The BBC also has its Birmingham headquarters here.
Ring roads, the bane of Birmingham traffic for visitors and pedestrians, still blockade Mailbox from the Bullring and the main city center shopping areas. And I was surprised, when I visited in late 2007, that few local people knew what I was talking about it when I asked for directions.
If you are heading for The Mailbox on foot, proceed down New Street to Victoria Square and ask someone local to point you toward Brindley Place. Then walk back up the canal tow path to Gas Street Basin.
