‘Free food’ offer as popular The Range store in Erdington opens new café

A popular homeware store in Birmingham is marking the opening of its new café with a ‘free’ food deal for children. The Range at the Ravenside Retail Park in Kingsbury Road, Erdington, is opening its new Café Eighty Nine on Friday, June 14.

The store, which sells furniture for the home including sofas, tables and chairs, garden furniture, machinery and items like barbecues, toys, mirrors, DIY gear, arts and crafts and more, will have a new eatery selling ‘delicious cooked to order food, and premium barista made hot drinks’.

The café, named after the year the retailer first began trading, is offering free children’s meals, including cooked breakfast, fish fingers & chips, and sausage & chip, on the opening weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday - June 14 to 16), one per paid-for adult meal.

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Adult meals will include an all-day English breakfasts, pizzas, burgers, curries and lasagnes, and will include vegetarian options. There will also be ‘light bites’ including salads, jacket potatoes and toasties.

As well as food, the new in-store eatery will also have ‘premium barista coffees’, including, cappuccinos, lattes, espressos and mochas. As well as ‘specialty cold coffee drinks from Costa’.

The Range said the newly refurbished café will boast a ‘fresh and inviting interior scheme with pops of green and cream stripes to give a continental feel, with cosy seating areas and ambient lighting to offer a welcoming meeting space. It described the new café as offering a ‘village green’ meeting space.

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CEO of The Range, Alex Simpkin, said: “At The Range we have committed to refurbish a number of stores up and down the country and Erdington is one of many to benefit from this stunning new café. We are incredibly proud of the space, not only does it enable local shoppers to dine affordably pre or post shop but they get to do so in bright, modern new surroundings.

“A lot of time has been spent making sure that the food and drinks offering provides customers with brilliant quality, while keeping prices affordable, especially for families as we start to enter the summer period.”