Four new part-time purveyors are set to start serving up more diverse international cuisines in the coming weeks, in the space also known as Korean Dad.
Bizarre: The Coffee Bar is an Alabama original fit for the times
By Susan Swagler
Bizarre: The Coffee Bar serves up more than java. (Brittany Dunn / Alabama NewsCenter)
Bizarre: The Coffee Bar is a coffee bar by day and a bar bar at night, but this unusual place also is an all-day incubator for several minority-owned local businesses. The café, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner (most nights), has become a hub in Birmingham’s Black business community, offering space for multiple vendors to attract attention and, in turn, build their own businesses.
Bizarre was started in 2018 by Jennifer Butler and Mia Perryman, friends who met 15 years earlier at Jefferson State Community College. In October 2019, they partnered with Will Harvill, who has since become the face of the business as well as “the general manager, head bartender, custodian, party promoter, DJ, and everything else involved with Bizarre: The Coffee Bar.”