Popular cafe looks to the future and applies for licence changes

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A CAFE that provoked the twitter ire of DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles could be branching out in the future.

The Curious Cafe, in Cheltenham’s Bath Road has applied for a licence for live music and alcohol.

But it’s not turning into a pub, or a mini-nightclub, it just wants the opportunity to host some private parties.

The popular venue prompted Knowles to tweet 40 times after he was warned of an hour-long wait for a sandwich when he went there.

A public notice published in the Gloucestershire Echo said the application was put in on October 5 seeking a premises licence for three elements:

live music between noon and 11pm every day

performance of recorded music between noon and 11pm every day

the sale by retail of alcohol from 8am to 11pm every day

Seeking such licences does not always imply that such things will always happen between those times.

Gemma Bryan, who has applied for the licence, said: “We want to be able to have some private parties, but I haven’t really decided on anything yet.

“But people have asked if they can hire the place out, and to do that we really need to sell alcohol.

“In the past, we have have bringyour-own alcohol private parties, which didn’t go too well.

“People take too much and don’t want to leave until they have finished it all.”

Any parties they have will be infrequent, she said.

The cafe hit the headlines back in August when Nick Knowles created a twitter storm about the long wait for a sandwich - a row Gemma described as ‘ridiculous’.

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