SOFT TOUCH CAFE
Our café runs on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, serving food from 10:00-2:00, open until 2:30 for drinks and cake.
Our doors are open to the public! Come and experience a fantastic project where young people work with our facilitators to prepare freshly made, healthy, vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free meals. They also run the front-of-house, learning how to take orders and handle money while building confidence and communication skills.
The cafe is in our exhibition space accessed from 50 New Walk, near Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.
See our menu below:
The café project also hosts possibilities for other participants to come and use the space to perform, run workshops, sell their work and more.
We very much welcome members of the public taking the opportunity to support our young people by using our space to meet friends or colleagues and purchasing something delicious from our café. It helps create a positive environment for our participants and all monies spent goes back into running the project.
Here's what our young chefs & servers have to say!
"I love coming to the Tuesday sessions, and I have learnt many skills. I can now come in on a Tuesday and start the bread-making process by myself. I know the measurements and the technique. I love the baking process and the smells as it's baking. I have experimented with the following flavours: chilli and cheese and sun d's, seeded, fougasse, olive, garlic and herb, traditional pizza base, pizza swirls.
Out of all of these, my favourites are pizza swirls and the cheese and chilli. I love the structure Tuesday gives me, and it allows me to get out of the house and learn new skills.
II love to share my bakes. We like the atmosphere, they make us feel comfortable and always have new ideas, and we listen to music when we bake."
