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Busy Beans Coffee celebrates Good Food


                                                                                                                                  award



                                                                                                                                  Independent coffee house Busy Beans
                                                                                                                                  Coffee has won a Good Food award.



                                                                                                                                  The Littleborough business, run by Becky and
                                                                                                                                  Danny O’Neill, is the only local eatery to win
                                                                                                                                  a 2022 Good Food Blue Ribbon for Delicious
                                                                                                                                  Dishes this year after being voted for by
                                                                                                                                  members of the public.

                                                                                                                                  The award-winning coffee house is one of 64
                                                                                                                                  winners of the coveted award in the café
                                                                                                                                  category. Their coffee has previously won a
                                                                                                                                  Great Taste award, but the Good Food award         “We’re very excited and we’ll definitely enter
                                                                                                                                  is their first accolade for the business, much     again next year.”
                                                                                                                                  to their delight.
                                                                                                                                                                                     Busy Beans originated as a mobile coffee bar

                                                                                                                                  Becky said: “Thank you so much to all our          frequenting local events, before the O’Neills
                                                                                                                                  customers who voted for us; it was so sweet        branched out into their first coffee house on
                                                                                                                                  of you all!                                        Victoria Street in November 2019.




                                                                                                                                  Russell’s Café moves to Yorkshire Street




                                                                                                                                  One of Rochdale’s long-standing and most popular
                                                                                                                                  venues, Russell’s Café, has reopened in new premises
                                                                                                                                  on Yorkshire Street.



                                                                                                                                   Now located on Rochdale’s        covered some of the costs,
                                                                                                                                   high street after the closure    and the Rochdale Business
                                                                                                                                   of the Wheatsheaf                Improvement District (BID).
                                                                                                                                   Shopping Centre, where it
                                                                                                                                   had been since 1997, the         He added: “Keeley Milne,
                                                                                                                                   new site has both indoor         our general manager, has
                                                                                                                                   and outdoor seating and          been here since day one and
                                                                                                                                   boasts a modern,                 she is the reason we’ve been
                                                                                                                                   contemporary vibe.               so successful.”                  “Customers say the offer is
                                                                                                                                                                                                     better than ever and that it
                                                                                                                                   Owner Jeremy Guest said          Paul Ambrose, Rochdale           has been great to enjoy lunch
                                                                                                                                   the café – which now             BID Manager, said: “It’s         on the outdoor terrace.
                                                                                                                                   employs 19 staff members         great to see such a
                                                                                                                                   – wouldn’t have been able        well-loved business has          “We wish Russell’s every
                                                                                                                                   to reopen without support        successfully relocated.          success in their new premises
                                                                                                                                   from the council, which                                           on Yorkshire Street.”



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