A NEW cafe has thanked the community for its 'absolutely brilliant' support since opening.
The Coffee Lounge on Brampton's Townfoot Industrial Estate was officially opened by mother-and-daughter duo Emma and Elizabeth Holt at the beginning of November.
The cafe, which also offers takeaway services, invites locals to enjoy home-cooked meals, freshly baked sweet treats, dark chocolate orange peel and cherry coffee blend, and sample their signature Lamb and vegetable Brampton Pasty.
For Emma, who also owns The Lotus Rooms above the cafe, opening the lounge and eatery alongside her mum has been a lifelong dream which has been realised following months of work.
She said: "It's been a long, hard slog. We moved here in March which was relatively easy because that was the beauty business and then downstairs we had the space.
"My mum and I had always wanted to do a coffee lounge and eatery together so we saw the oppourtinty and just got stuck in and started converting what was basically a concrete block into a nice coffee lounge.
The Lotus Rooms, which operates alternative and holistic health services as well as a hair and beauty salon, already has an established community and Emma expressed her delight at how this and the wider Brampton community have supported her latest venture.
"Phenomenal, absolutely brilliant, obviously I am greatly supported upstairs and we also have nine freelance therapists upstairs so it is more of a holistic centre and they themselves are all very busy women and men.
"Their clients have supported it, my clients have supported it, but also huge support from local people, the industrial estate, it is just brilliant."
Through The Lotus Rooms, Emma has experience working with people with mental health struggles and also hopes that the new coffee lounge will help provide people with a 'heartwarming' treat.
She said: "I think where I come from being upstairs in the holistic centre I deal with a lot of people at the moment suffering with anxiety and mental health issues as a backlog from Covid on to just today's climate because it is hard.
"It is heartwarming to be able to provide a sanctuary of well-being, somewhere you can come to have a treat, not break the bank and what better way to finish than to have a home-cooked meal or a good piece of cream cake
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