Maria Seatherton is serving up scrumptious selfmade meals and desserts
A Devon pantomime star has taken one other lead position, this time at Ria’s Cafe & Cakery. The café guarantees to be some of the inexpensive shops within the space, with meals freshly cooked to order to eat in or take away.
Many regulars at Tiverton Pannier Market, the place the café relies, will recognise Maria Seatherton as she has traded there since final summer time underneath the identify Ria’s Cakey Bits, first contained in the constructing after which in a wood unit.
She will likely be entrance of home whereas her husband Dave will likely be on view cooking simply behind her in a new-look set-up. The couple have been busy refurbishing the café space over the previous week or so, putting in a brand new griddle, double fryer and panini grill, amongst different issues. They launched the café on Wednesday, September 20 and will likely be open alongside normal markets each Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. They may also be right here for occasions on different days.
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She stated: “I used to run a restaurant with my mum in Newton Abbott, for 5 years, referred to as Mad Hatter’s Cafe. Then we had a change of circumstances and final yr I obtained a stall in Tiverton Pannier Market doing cake, decorations and bespoke desserts. My mum began off that enterprise of cake decorations earlier than she had the café and she or he then gave it up as a consequence of her well being, so I took on all the pieces from that and began a market stall. The cafe got here up and I assumed, I can do this, I get pleasure from it, so right here I’m.”
The menu consists of all day breakfast, baps, toast, jacket potatoes, burgers, paninis, teacakes, chips and several other vegetarian choices. You too can discover Bakewell tarts, sponge desserts, loaf desserts and scones – all home-made by Maria. Pattern a slice within the café or order a complete cake to take dwelling. The espresso, tea and scorching chocolate is all equipped by The Espresso Firm, which Maria and Dave know effectively from the previous.
In reminiscence of founder Robert Stephenson, the corporate donates a proportion of its gross sales of its Straight Up model to native charity Rowcroft Hospice. Which means you may get pleasure from every Straight Up No. 18 espresso figuring out you may be supporting adults with life-limiting diseases.
Maria and Dave plan to introduce specials comparable to stew, pies, soup, and seasonal goodies, together with Bratwurst scorching canines on the market’s brand-new Tiverton Farmers Market Oktober Feast occasion subsequent month.
The café has had three homeowners lately, and Maria hopes to be right here for the long term. She defined: “I get pleasure from baking and I get pleasure from cooking for folks, and I really like seeing folks’s reactions to my meals and my desserts. From this cafe you may count on freshly cooked meals, selfmade desserts, after which there will likely be selfmade specials like selfmade stew, pie and in the summertime, there will be selfmade quiche, and homity pie. Then each week there will likely be a selfmade soup as effectively. Mainly, if I could make it myself, I’ll, reasonably than purchase it.”
She stated she was wanting ahead to assembly numerous new folks. She added: “I am a really folks individual. I like to talk so much and we will likely be encouraging others to talk to one another over espresso and cake.”
Maria additionally provides celebration desserts to order, personalised toppers and edible printing. The couple met whereas working as supply drivers for Argos in Tiverton. Maria was born and raised within the city, attending Tiverton Excessive College and East Devon School, now often called Petroc Official. She is barista-trained, working at The Impartial Espresso Dealer earlier than shifting to Mad Hatters Café in Newton Abbot, which she ran for round 5 years together with her mum Elaine after which Dave. Elaine has labored in catering for a few years, together with with a stall at Newton Abbot Markets and a cake provides enterprise that Maria later took over. Dave has additionally labored in portray, adorning and constructing through the years. His mum Sandy runs a stall within the wood models – Ridgeyspersonalisedgifts.
Maria has been coming to the market usually for 18 years – as a member of the Tiverton Signpost Membership that occupies the group constructing behind the market. She has performed the roles of Ali Baba, Snow White, Dick Whittington, Robinson Crusoe and The Depraved Stepmother lately. Maria has been attending theatres since she was three as her father, Colin Barrow, is a playwright and she or he began out as a fairy in Babes within the Wooden on the age of six.
