Alabama Newscenter — Bizarre: The Coffee Bar Is an Alabama Original Fit for the Times

By Susan Swagler

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.”

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