fika+ in Grosvenor Park
For the past 2.5 years you've been telling us we need a bigger place. Well, we've managed to land a great venue - The Lodge in Grosvenor Park. We're going to move our bakery inside and enhance the inside to stamp our fika+ chilled mark on the lovely place. However, in the meantime we aim to utilise the welcoming outside space - including the conservatory and patio.
So come and enjoy some fika+ bakes, pastries, coffees and ice-cream.
We had a very soft opening (July 14th didn't tell a soul until we opened!). Then the following week did 19-21. Now we aiming to be open Wednesday-Sunday 10:00-16:30 - ALL weather dependent. Although we have a gazebo, parasols and of course the conservatory is fully covered.
We are aiming to be fully open - inside and outside late September. Keep an eye on our social media for daily updates.
The Lodge - Day Zero
Food and Drink
If everything goes to plan (life rarely does....) we'll have The Lodge fully open - inside and outside by early to mid-September*. This will include moving our bakery into The Lodge too. So there will be fresh bakes and pastries (and lots of other lovely food and drinks) available everyday.
*There's been a bit of a delay in starting the refurbishment and it will be late September now - fingers crossed.
However, we're still finalising our core menu ahead of our official full opening. Once we have this completed we'll let everyone know.
In the meantime we'll be service a selection of ice-creams, pastries, bakes and hot and cold drinks outside. We're also aiming to do some breads, wraps and more fuller menu items outside shortly too.
We've been pleasantly surprised by popularity. Please bear with us whilst we get the outside set-up right - it's not easy essentially baking everything off site each day and getting set up (and clearing away) each day. It's literally like doing a market event every day.
When we have The Lodge (inside too) fully open it'll feel like the biggest kitchen ever (compared to our original venue on the City Walls!). We are really excited about the potential breadth of food we'll be able to offer. Of course, all plant-based. For those new to fika+ we don't overly promote and market ourselves as a fully plant-based business. We are simply following our passion and hope to show that bakes, pastries, coffee and food can be just a delicious using plant-based ingredients. We've been doing it since 2020 - and growing since. No compromise at all. Come and give us a try - and if you don't like whatever you try - it's on us (just let us know before eating and drinking everything!).
The "+" in fika+ stands for "more than"......just a café. Now we've got such a great venue in a wonderful location we'll be looking to develop the "+" side of fika+. The health and wellbeing aspect of the business. We'll be sharing our plans over the coming months.
