Business centre all the better for bakery and coffee...

"Our tenants have said they really want a cafe on site and Jess and Ryan run it so well, with such a great range of food and drink, that it is a real asset to the centre."

Tenants and visitors at Eliot Park Innovation Centre have an extra reason to enjoy their time there following the reopening of a new cafe, refreshed and under new management, on site.

Jessica Lucas has brought her lifelong passion for baking to the cafe which is very much back up and running after a prolonged period of closure due to the pandemic.

The cafe, on the first floor of the Warwickshire County Council-run centre in Nuneaton, is proving highly popular with tenants who are also very happy to have access to Jess's baking skills.

"I've always had my own bakery business - All The Good Stuff - and we also have a mobile coffee outlet too, so running the cafe so allows us to combined the two," she said. "It is going really well. Lots of people come are coming in and we have also had orders for birthday cakes and celebration cakes from people who work at the centre, so word is getting around.

"The cafe was closed for almost two years but we gave it a lick of paint, bought new accessories and redid all the menu boards so it had a good refresh and we are really pleased with it. We started off just doing coffee and treats initially, then introduced lunches and now we have introduced jacket potatoes...it is a case of finding out what everyone wants and working from there."

"We are open to all, not just tenants of the centre. Anyone visiting the centre for appointments, or any of the business nearby, like the car garages locally, is more than welcome."

The cafe is open from 8.30 to 3pm from Monday to Friday. 

Warwickshire Business Centres Strategic Manager, Luke Pulford, said: "It is fantastic to have our cafe open again on site and it is proving a massive success.

"Our tenants have said they really want a cafe on site and Jess and Ryan run it so well, with such a great range of quality food and drink. It is a real asset to the community of growing businesses at Eliot Park Innovation Centre."