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Birmingham’s Warehouse Cafe will soon be transforming into a live music venue and a new home for the city’s fledgling artists.

From March 22nd onwards, the Digbeth veggie cafe will be licenced to serve alcohol and host live music.

Currently dinner at the highly popular eaterie is only available from 5.30pm till 8.15pm, and the building closes at 10pm. But once the application is approved by Birmingham City Council, the venue can stay open till 11pm.

The news comes after Digbeth’s much loved live music venue and bar Alfie Bird and The Oobleck closed its doors at the Custard Factory.

Alfie Bird admitted it was “an ongoing challenge to get a live music venue within The Custard Factory to work for the long term”.

Warehouse Cafe director Anthony Scaroni told us: "We noticed we had a lot of visitors from outside Birmingham who booked to eat here but were unaware we didn't serve alcohol.

"We want to offer the best experience possible, so we are looking to be serving select Vegan wines, as well as occasionally have acoustic acts playing to create a more intimate atmosphere."

The Warehouse Cafe has undergone a few transformations over the 30 years since it opened its doors in Birmingham’s Friends Of The Earth Building on Allison Street; first as a humble soup kitchen then to its successful incarnation as The Amazon Café in the 80s and 90s and to the Brum vegetarian foodie phenomenon that it is now.