Harrogate cupcake company Mama Doreen’s Emporium is due to open a new branch in York.
The restaurant, which serves afternoon tea, brunch dishes and cakes, opened in 2009 on Cold Bath Road, but moved to its current James Street site in 2019.
Now the company is on the hunt for a new general manager to run the York site.
In a social media post advertising the job role, a member of staff at Mama Doreen’s said:
“We are now ready to bring our amazing service, afternoon teas and of course cupcakes to York.”
The opening date and location of the new store have not yet been announced.
Harrogate tea company takes home Great Taste award
A Harrogate-based tea company has been recognised at the Great Taste Awards for its immunity tea.
Thankfully Healthy was one of 4,088 winners of the award, which had been narrowed down from over 14,000 entries.
The tea is made from a blend of herbs including turmeric, cardamom and rose to strengthen the immune system.
The accolade is given to ‘food and drink that delivers fantastic flavour’ and the product was dubbed “a bracing and spicy ayurvedic tea, full of interesting and complementary spices, most familiar from the spice box of India” by the judges.
Dipti Arora, founder, said:
“If you had told me when I first started thinking about my herbal tea business that I would receive a Great Taste award someday, I probably would have said, “only if such a wish could ever come true!”
“But here I am, a one-person team, nurturing my start-up, and this achievement feels like more than just a dream come true.
The judging took place over 89 days, with a panel of over 500 judges, and saw entries from 109 different countries.
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Harrogate Town has announced a new partnership with Barclays LED Solutions.
As a result, the Wetherby Road Terrace at the EnviroVent stadium has been renamed the Barclays LED Solutions Stand.
Barclays LED Solutions has been working with the club over the summer to install new energy saving LED floodlights that will improve the lighting at the ground and reduce environmental impact.
Dave Barclay, owner of Barclay LED Solutions said:
“We are thrilled to partner with the club, after completing works on replacing the floodlights with LED we knew we wanted to continue working with Harrogate Town and the right opportunity came at the right time.
“Harrogate Town is an integral part of the community that brings so many people together and we are delighted to be involved with the club and show our support of Town.”
Barclay LED Solutions, founded over 30 years ago as an electrical contracting business now specialises in the design, supply and installation of LED lighting to the sports, commercial and industrial markets.
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Ripon pies win taste award
Ripon based Yorkshire Handmade Pies has picked up a 3 star Great Taste Award for its steak and kidney pie.
The company was also awarded 2 stars for its steak and black pudding and Yorkshire samosa pies, and 1 star for its mushroom and ale and steak and ale pies.
More than 14,000 products were put through the competition’s rigorous blind judging process, with only 241 products from around the world being awarded the Great Taste 3-star accolade, which is awarded for ‘extraordinarily tasty food and drink’.
Yorkshire Handmade Pies are made from local ingredients including slow-cooked Heritage breed beef, herb-fed free-range chicken and grass-fed Wagyu beef, all farmed in harmony with the environment.
Founder James Sturdy said:
“We are over the moon. So fantastic for the team to be recognised for all their hard work. Five awards is a seriously impressive haul – it’s hard to get any awards so five is really good, especially the 3-star one.
“We’re so proud of our local area and of representing Yorkshire’s finest produce on an international stage. Great Taste is the most recognised accolade in the food and drink world. For independent producers like Yorkshire Handmade Pies it really means a huge amount to be recognised.”
The award winning steak and kidney Yorkshire Handmade Pie.