Velvet Magazine November 2016

Food
Co.
15 High Street,
Cherry Hinton, CB1 9HX
Tel: 01223 778080
www.cofifteen.co.uk
Is your entire menu aimed at the health conscious?
Our seasonal menus are entirely produce driven and everything is
prepared and cooked fresh onsite in our kitchen. We use entirely
natural whole foods and our dishes start out in the rawest form.
Everything from porridge to sandwiches to soups, cakes and salad
dressings are entirely homemade. Some of what we use for our
menu and sell here in the cafe, we buy in from other local shops and
bakeries. Our fruit and veg is grown and sourced locally from Kale
and Damson and even our drinks are local too. 95% of all our dishes
are considered healthy and suitable for vegetarians or vegans. We
have very few meat options and very few dishes containing dairy.
There is the option to add meat if customers wish. We really think
about every aspect of what is going into each dish to keep everything
as natural as possible. We only use sugar in baked goods and even
then it isn’t the white stuff! We use alternatives such as coconut
sugar, agave syrup and honey.
Tell us a little more about your recent collaborations and
upcoming events.
We have recently launched our events side of the business where
we are working with plenty of local favourites such as the Allotment
Café, We Three Club, Annas Flower Farm, Old Friends Brewery
and Steak & Honour. There’s also some new faces, such as Lisa from
Refine Fitness, who is offering yoga classes, and the Rocking Raw
Chef who is leading some unrefined cookery classes. We also have
an array of kid’s workshops, cookery workshops, supper clubs and
more. Our events space or function room is also available for private
parties or conferences. We are in the process of developing our
menu at the moment and will be introducing many more of our own
baked goods such as cakes and breads. We’re also currently working
on our catering packs for events, outside catering and celebration
cakes.
What’s been your biggest achievement so far?
We have just been informed that we will be awarded a Gold award
(which is the highest you can achieve) as part of Sustainable
Cambridge’s Pledge for Businesses. This is something that we are
really proud of, as the whole pledge is pretty much in sync with our
ethos, proving that we are hitting most of our proposed targets and
staying true to our mission statement. This is truly fantastic news
considering we’ve only been open less than three months.
What else does the future hold for you?
We are constantly speaking with our customers about what they
enjoy most when visiting us, and what they would like to see
more of; in addition to constantly researching more effective
cooking methods and ingredients with greater nutritional values,
all in addition to actually tasting great too! They’re great tools
for bettering ourselves. We have a long way to go in terms of
communicating our brand across to people and generating
awareness of how people can make small changes and see a big
difference. Saying this, I would be happy to have played a part in
altering even one person’s way of thinking!
Where do you see Co. in five years?
In five years, I’d like us to to become as fully self-sufficient as
possible and acting as a producer in addition to a caterer and retailer.
Sustainability will be kept at the heart of our ethos and I’d love for
the Co. to become a hub where people come to meet, eat, relax,
participate in workshops or classes and act as a space for people to
learn, progress and to really embrace conscious living.
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