01 / Bakery
Bread in the morning.
Three shops in Riverbend. Everything made on the premises, sold the same day, and gone when it is gone.
02 / MIL
Mill Street
Tue to Sun, 9am to 5pm. Closed Monday.
Catering up to 80.
03 / HRB
Harbour Road
Tue to Sun, 7am to 6pm. Closed Monday.
Catering up to 140. example
04 / KTL
Kettle Lane
Tue to Sat, 8am to 3pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.
Catering up to 40. example
05 / Catering
Catering
Eight people upward, priced per head. Each shop has its own limits.
Same board, three kitchens
Twelve things, the same prices, in all three shops. What is not the same is what is behind the counter: Harbour Road has two ovens and a prep kitchen, Mill Street has one deck oven, and Kettle Lane has one oven and no kitchen at all.
That is invisible if you are buying a coffee and decisive if you are feeding sixty people, so the catering planner asks which shop first and works out the rest from there.
Invisible for a coffee. Decisive for sixty people.
Marisa, and six years on Mill Street
Baking was never a hobby here. I grew up with flour on the counter and someone telling me the dough was ready when it felt ready, which is not a measurement but turned out to be true.
Mill Street was the whole business for four years. The other two came later, and slowly, because a second shop is not the first one again.
A second shop is not the first one again.
Catering, planned in three steps
Choose a shop and what you need, tell us when, review and send. The planner prices as you go from published rates and will not let you ask a shop for something its kitchen cannot make.
You get an estimate before you send anything. An estimate is not a price you owe; it becomes an enquiry when you send it, and an order only once that shop has quoted and you have accepted.
It will not let you ask for what a kitchen cannot make.
06 / Journal
Things worth writing down.
Why the sourdough takes three days
People ask why we only have bread some days. The honest answer is that it takes three days and Mill Street has one oven.
Read this
What we actually mean by locally roasted
Every cafe in the country says locally roasted. Here is the specific, boring version of what ours means.
Read this
Catering a room of forty without anyone noticing
The goal with catering is that nobody in the room thinks about the food at all. Here is roughly how a morning like that runs.
Read this