Gina Long
Luke Coathup
- Credit: Jenny Jones Photography
Luke Coathup is the owner of The Green Grocers, a successful wholefoods shop, bakery and café in Norwich. Rising through the ranks in a number of East Anglian hospitality businesses, from pot wash to managing a chain of restaurants, it was studying a degree at UEA as a mature student that finally gave him the leap of faith to develop and grow his own business focusing on his passion of food, people and wine.
He chats with Gina Long MBE.
What does it mean for you, now the hospitality industry can welcome back inside diners? It s fantastic news! Covid has bought the most challenging environment possible to the hospitality and retail industry. Customers are everything to us, they are what make the business.
Thorayya and Shifa Mears launched Oichi in March last year
- Credit: Oichi Ferments
Handmade kombucha delivered to your doorstep is a new service being offered in Norfolk after two sisters launched their sustainable drinks brand during lockdown.
Thorayya and Shifa Mears launched Oichi Ferments in March last year having always dreamed of running a business with a difference.
Having moved both their families - with five children between them - into a joint home in Sprowston the pair have been working full-time on the brand ever since and produce 600 litres of the fermented drink every week. The dream is for people to think kombucha and think Oishi, said Shifa.
Lordship Lane, Wood Green, 1923 showing two former pubs
Added by Hugh on May 5, 2021 at 8:19
On the far left is the old Freemason s Tavern at the bottom of Winkfield Road. (The 1930s rebuild is pictured here.)
On the next corner, in the background, is the original Lordship Tavern that stood on the corner of Accacia Road (the old building still stands today). The pub moved to a new building 40 metres east on the corner of Perth/Dunbar Roads in the 1930s.
This image also has the old Lordship Tavern in the background (but it has lost its dutch gable by this point).