The Warehouse Café

Allotment Club & Seed Swop — April 30th 7pm

alexclaridge — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:57:18 +0000

I am so very excited to announce the launch of our inaugural Allotment Club & Seed Swop Supper. We will meet on a monthly basis to provide a social hub for people interested in growing their own and swopping seeds to start their own edible gardens.

The evening will be an informal and friendly chance to meet likeminded gardeners, share tips and there will be a structured discussion each month lead by an expert. There will be a special menu provided at the restaurant for the group using local and wild produce. A dear friend of the restaurant and responsible for growing much of our home-grown produce, Sarah-Jane Watkinson will be leading this first meeting and discussing ‘good to grow: planting in preparation for summer.’

We anticipate a high demand, so please e-mail info [at] the warehousecafe.com to confirm your attendance. There really is no greater pleasure than the joy of growing and eating your own food, and we look forward to being a part of that.

Opening Hours Revision effective April 16th onwards…

alexclaridge — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:41:28 +0000

As many of our regular diners may know, we’ve spent significant efforts in the past year on beginning to grow our own produce, as well as supporting local food and gardening campaigns. This year we have taken on additional growing space just two streets away from the restaurant with local community gardens — Edible Eastside — and I am currently working on a new community orchard and a landmark community allotment project in the city centre with both local and national public sector organisations. Good news for Birmingham but also good news for the restaurant and part of our three year goal of been able to supply the majority of fresh herbs, leaves and produce off the vine for the restaurant from within Birmingham.

To allow us more time to support the growth of our gardens, and involve all our staff in these projects, we will be amending our opening hours. As our gardens begin to come to life with Spring, we look forward to showing off some of our own produce across the menu and selected specials.

As of April 16th 2012 -- we will be revising our opening hours to:

Monday — 12pm – 22.00pm (last orders 8.45pm)

Tuesday & Wednesday — CLOSED

Thursday — 12pm – 22pm (last orders 8.45pm)

Friday & Saturday — 12pm – 22.30PM (last orders 9.00pm)

Sunday — 12pm – 4.30pm (last orders 3.30pm)

We will also use Tuesdays & Wednesdays to organise more events and dinner clubs — in addition to our book club, we will be launching an allotment & seed share club, meeting monthly and a programme of regular speakers on food and food related issues. Please e-mail us for more details.

Tuesday and Wednesday evenings will also be available to our customers for private dining should you wish to visit us as part of a larger group and enjoy exclusive use of the restaurant.

We are relaunching our Monday promotion — because sometimes who doesn’t need a perk to start the week? For advance bookings (24 hours minmimum please!) we will be offering buy one get one free on main courses. There will be a limited number of promotional dining places so please do book early to avoid disappointment.

I hope you will join with us in excitement for the next chapter at The Warehouse Cafe. I warmly welcome any feedback or input you might have on what we can do to be the best we can be. Thanks as ever for your support and we look forward to seeing you soon.

Mother’s Day 2012

alexclaridge — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:40:53 +0000

We are delighted to announce our Mother’s Day Menu 2012. Bookings are open now — we will be running the menu across the weekend with a discount for the Friday and Saturday. Please call us on 0121 633 0261 to book your table.

Mother’s Day

March 18^th 2012

Starters

Miso-marinated crispy tofu, mizuna and nori salad, wasabi dressing

Jerusalem artichoke and hazelnut soup, caraway toast (gf option) (v option)

Ruby red port and blue stilton pate, warm sourdough, grape chutney, celery and apple salad

Mains

South Indian spiced three lentil sausages, Bombay crushed potatoes, fenugreek gravy and pear and apple chutney (v)(nuts!)

Spring vegetable korma, aromatic rice, potato and chard pakora and mint rajta (v/ gf)

Broad bean, pea and mint risotto, purple sprouting broccoli, beetroot and balsamic salad (v option)(gf)

Warehouse nut roast with all trimmings

Desserts

Coffee and mascarpone tiramisu, almond praline (nuts!)

Raspberry clafoutis, vanilla ice cream and mint syrup (v option)

Dark chocolate, rum and raisin brownie, vanilla ice cream and salted coconut sauce (v option)

Lime and ginger cheesecake, lemongrass coulis and crystalised ginger (v option/ gf/nuts!)

Three courses for £24 on Sunday 18^th March and £19 (20% discount) on Friday 16^th and Saturday 17^thMarch. Booking is strongly recommended. Children’s menu will be available.

Update on Vouchercloud Promotions

alexclaridge — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:09:20 +0000

Thank you to all our customers who have previously used Vouchercloud promotions with us. We have decided amicably with Vouchercloud and Invitation Digital that for the future we will be pursuing solely our own promotions and as such we will no longer be accepting vouchercloud vouchers, phone promotions or any associated offers. Apologies for any inconvenience and we do look forward to seeing you soon.

Valentine’s Day 2012

alexclaridge — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:53:02 +0000

We are delighted to now be taking bookings for Valentine’s Day 2012. The menu can be viewed at:

http://www.thewarehousecafe.com/valentines-day-2012

Spaces are booking fast so if you would like to visit us please do call us to book your place on 0121 633 0261.

Opening Times for Christmas & New Year

alexclaridge — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:31:33 +0000

Happy Holidays everybody. If you would like to visit us, we would love to see you. Our opening times are as follows:

Tuesday 20 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Wednesday 21 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Thursday 22 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Friday 23 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Saturday 24 December: 11 am – 6 pm (last orders 5 pm)

Sunday 25 December: Closed

Monday 26 December: 12 pm – 4 pm (last orders 3 pm)

Tuesday 27 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Wednesday 28 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Thursday 29 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Friday 30 December: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Saturday 31 December: 11 am – 9 pm (last orders 8 pm)

Sunday 1 January: Closed

Monday 2 January: 12 pm – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Tuesday 3 January: 11 am – 10 pm (last orders 9 pm)

Promotional vouchers — an update!

alexclaridge — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:28:48 +0000

We’ve experienced a few minor blips in the last few weeks with eager and hungry diners presenting vouchers that — to the best of our knowledge — we no longer operated agreements with or existed under alternative terms and conditions. I love surprises as much as the next chap, but obviously I’m eager to ensure that nobody is left confused or disappointed. We’re in the process of contacting all our partners to clarify our offers but in the meantime, the following is a summary of the external promotions we run:

Gourmet Society — excluding Friday evenings and Saturdays. 24 hours advance booking required.

Vouchercloud & Invitation Book — Mondays & Tuesdays only, with 24 hours advance booking required.

Unfortunately, none of our promotional offers are valid during December.

Any promotional offers are offered with a limited number on offer per service so please do always let us know at the time of booking.

If you have any queries in the meantime, please do give us a call and as soon as we have clarified all these offers I will post another update. As ever, my sincere thanks for your interest and support.

Christmas Menu…

alexclaridge — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:34:51 +0000

I adore Christmas, what’s not to love about peace, love and good-tidings to all? And, of course, copious amounts of good food and drink….

We’ve just unveiled our Christmas menu for this year. I’m already looking forward to getting in the kitchen with these new dishes, and I certainly look forward to tasting it. Gratuitously. All in the name of quality control, obviously….

You can view our full Christmas menu here, and we’re also offering an early-bird discount of 10% on bookings before 31st October — as an early Christmas present.

In the meantime, I would like to highlight one dish:

Home-smoked beetroot roast pumpkin, parsnips & baby spinach with goats cheese dressing & walnut crumbed goats cheese (v option) (nuts!)

I adore beetroot, and we’re going to be smoking the beet ourself using my latest gadget — The Smoke Gun. My favourite ingredient and an excuse to use more gadgets?! Bliss.

Closed for refurbishment Sunday 5th – Thursday 8th September

alexclaridge — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:36:29 +0000

We’re busy making our restaurant as beautiful as can be for you. Please note that we will be closed from Sunday – Thursday inclusive. You may not be able to get in touch via the phone lines, so please drop us an e-mail with any urgent enquiries to info@thewarehousecafe.com

When we re-open on Friday 9th we will be running a week-long buy one get one free offer to celebrate our return. This offer is only available for advance bookings, so please call us now 0121 633 0261 to book or more details. T&Cs apply.

Have a wonderful week and we look forward to seeing you soon!

New Website for The Warehouse Cafe!

alexclaridge — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:30:27 +0000

As you may have noticed, we have just overhauled our website. We’ve hit a few technical difficulties along the way so apologies if you’ve been confused by a broken website, we’re still in the process of ironing out a few glitches so bear with us. In the meantime you can like us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter to keep updated. Alternatively, if you have any queiries call us on 0121 633 0261 or email us, info@thewarehousecafe.com. Thanks!