Buckinghamshire based Coopers Trading Company is opening its third venue and first restaurant as part of plans to open up to seven “eclectic food-based venues” in the Marlow area, M&C Report has learnt.
Coopers Riverside is due to open at the Bourne End Marina on the River Thames in November as a restaurant and wine bar serving dishes from an organic locally sourced seasonal menu.
“We are looking over the next few years to open a number of food related venues in the area catering for people who are looking for high quality coffee, wines and baked-goods,” Adrian Thomas, co-founder told M&C.
Thomas, along with his partner James Patch, began the company a year ago with their first venue – a coffee roaster in Marlow – to establish a group “focusing on being a community engagement project more than a chain,” Thomas said.
“We are excited about the combination of eclectic food, wine and coffee and want to build a local model.” He described the roaster in Marlow as a “living workshop” in which to bring people together for coffee, food and baked goods.
The group also has ambitions to get into the catering sector for offices and businesses in Buckinghamshire as well as education and training relating to wine and coffee in the wholesale sector.
“In Buckinghamshire some restaurants have fallen off a cliff in terms of coffee so what we want to do is set up a training centre for baristas so they can learn to deliver an incredible cup of coffee,” Thomas said.
Thomas has trained as a barista and coffee roaster and he and Patch share a passion for wines, which they import.
Leisure property specialists Davis Coffer Lyons acted for the landlord.
