Tides Cafe Fareham

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Tides Cafe in Lower Quay, Fareham, has reopened after a refurbishment.

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00:00Yes I'm Jackie Trebek and I own Tides Coffee Shop. So tell me about Tides and where we are.

00:06Well I opened Tides July 2022 and just because I saw the space up for rent and I've lived in

00:14the community for a long time and even though I've never worked in a coffee shop or even own

00:20one or anything I gave up my job at the council where I'd worked for many years and decided to

00:25give it a go and for the community really. I've walked past this building many times walking my

00:31dog in 16-17 years and completely moaned to myself there was nowhere to get coffee

00:37in the area and so when it came up for rent I just decided it might be a good idea to

00:44just go for it because if I didn't someone else would and I probably would have lived with the

00:47regret of that. So yeah I decided to take the plunge and it all just really unfolded quite

00:54naturally and organically really and the community have come together and have made it what it is

00:58really you know it's all the regulars and all the lovely people that come in and the staff

01:03the staff are all very good friends and family members so they've always been rooting for me and

01:09you know for all of us and I think that's the vibe that everybody's attracted to the fact

01:14that's by the water it's a very joyful atmosphere everybody knows each other so when people that go

01:21there haven't been there before they pick up on that and they pick up on the relaxed side of it

01:26and obviously the cake and the coffee is amazing which helps you know nobody wants to come and

01:31not have good cake and coffee but so that's really helped but yeah I've got my daughters

01:36my friends and good regulars and it's working out really well so that's why it got so popular

01:42that the tiny little space that we had had to had to change we couldn't carry on the way we're going

01:49space wise we were struggling to feed as many people that wanted feeding and so we decided to

01:56expand new people that own the marina Karen and Jason they took on to make the space so it was

02:04good for purpose so they're my if you like my landlords and so they undertook the works

02:10and did that for me so made it bigger made the kitchen better and so we're now able to

02:15feed more people and have a little bit more space I think we've gained about an extra 10 seats

02:20which will hopefully be good enough you know for now anyway and we're hoping to maybe get

02:25some seats outside soon which would be nice sitting over here and yeah all the regulars

02:31are loving it and it's so far been we've only been open another four days after the refurb

02:37but it seems to be going well everybody's enjoying it and it's not lost too much of

02:41its original cuteness I hope and people said it hasn't so that's good I mean you've got a

02:46wonderful view um in there with with those big open doors um it's good to hear the reaction

02:53um is it just coffee and cakes that you do or is that no we do um hot food too so we do your

02:59typical bacon bat sausage bats we do um granola bowls for breakfast we do hot paninis amazing

03:06bagels everybody loves you know bacon brie and cranberry salmon and cream cheese we do

03:11goat's cheese and caramelized onion um so we do um afternoon teas which are very popular

03:19and we do a high tide breakfast which is on a cake stand for three and it's got like mini

03:24um bacon and sausage bats and then you've got little mini granola bowls and then you've got

03:29um little waffles and maple syrup to go with it so it's on a tower I'll have to try that yeah

03:36that that's quite popular um so yes I think we do an array of different foods um there we're hoping

03:43to start doing um bilingual breakfast soon we've only just managed to get a hob because before it

03:50was too small to have that but now we've got a hob we'll probably be putting that down on the menu

03:54as well soon so yeah there's quite a few few choices jack potatoes with chili you know and

04:00jack potato and beans and cheese you know your typical that's great so tell me um what your

04:06opening hours are yes so we are open seven days a week at the moment um during the week monday to

04:12friday we're open nine till four saturday we're open ten till four and sunday we're open ten till

04:17two so yep that seems to work quite well at the moment I mean obviously that's open to change but

04:22it's been the sort of same for quite a long time now

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