Our lovely Employee of 12 years has left us for a year to do some very admir­able vol­un­tary work in Rwanda. Car­oline only touched down last Thursday and is already hard at work! Please keep up with her bril­liant adven­ture on her blog »

http://www.anniesrwandanadventure.blogspot.co.uk/

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James and Kate Mack­en­zie won the accol­ade for The Pipe and Glass Inn, a 17^th cen­tury pub in South Dalton, a vil­lage to the north of Hull.

The couple replace Mr Blu­menthal in the num­ber one spot. The tele­vi­sion chef won the award last year for The Hinds Head in Bray, Berkshire, which is also the loc­a­tion of his world-famous res­taur­ant The Fat Duck.

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www.cheztoi.co.uk

We are delighted to announce the launch of Chez Toi — the domestic inter­net sales site of Cafe du Monde.

Click here to see more…

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Newby Teas of Lon­don is cel­eb­rat­ing after win­ning 21 pres­ti­gi­ous 2011 Great Taste Awards. Newby has been presen­ted with two coveted two star, and 18 one star Gold Great Taste Award for its teas.

This makes Newby the most awar­ded tea com­pany in the his­tory of the Awards, with a total of 64 awards over 6 years. Newby’s com­mit­ment to pack­ing at source, and cre­at­ing unique blends is con­stantly recog­nised by the awards, reward­ing years of ded­ic­a­tion to find­ing the best teas in the world.

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Last week the res­ults of the “Great Taste Awards 2010” were announced and we are delighted say that Newby Teas gained 13 Awards.

The Great Taste Awards is com­pletely inde­pend­ent and the judging by industry experts is uncom­prom­isingly rig­or­ous. Stars are given to products for their excel­lence and are gen­er­ally thought of as the food and drink equi­val­ent of the “Oscars”.

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Great news! Franke will be launch­ing their latest bean to cup machine called the Franke Pura at the Caffé Cul­ture show on 23^rd-25^th June at Olympia. The Franke Pura is the long awaited mid volume machine, cap­able of up to 200 cof­fees a day, intro­duced to com­ple­ment the enorm­ously suc­cess­ful low volume Franke Flair and high volume Franke Evol­u­tion bean to cup cof­fee machines.

The Franke Pura is per­fectly suited to hotel and res­taur­ant applic­a­tions and is a very wel­come addi­tion to our range of cof­fee equip­ment. .…… Watch this space.…..

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22^nd Feb­ru­ary  —  7^th March 2010
Going green and being sus­tain­able doesn’t have to cost your busi­ness, Café du Monde is here to help. To cel­eb­rate Fairtrade Fort­night and the Fairtrade Found­a­tions 15^th year Café du Monde are offer­ing a free 4 cup cafetiere worth £29.95 with every two cases of Fairtrade “singles” pur­chased at £50.50 per case, post […]

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This year we have decided to donate the money we would usu­ally spend on Christ­mas cards and post­age to “Help for Heros”.  Fol­low­ing the appalling list of cas­u­al­ties sus­tained by our troops in Afgh­anistan, it would be dif­fi­cult to think of a more deserving cause.
So from all of us at Café Du Monde we would like […]

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On Fri­day 20^th Novem­ber, 20 mem­bers of staff and their part­ners cel­eb­rated 20 years of Café du Monde.  The venue chosen for the fest­iv­it­ies was the award win­ning South Lodge Hotel, Lower Beed­ing.  From the pre din­ner drinks in the draw­ing room, where memor­ies were shared and miss­ing col­leagues remembered the whole week­end was magical.
The evening’s […]

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The 2009 Catey awards cere­mony took place at the Gros­venor House Hotel on the 7^th July.  Spe­cial con­grat­u­la­tions go to South Lodge Hotel  —  Lower Bleed­ing, who won the Group Hotel of the Year Award and to Erick Ker­vaon from South Lodge, who won the Food and Bever­age Manger of the Year Award.  Our con­grat­u­la­tions also go […]

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