About Me
Hi, I'm Siobhan, and this is Celia's Café.
Being half-Dutch, I loved our family trips to Holland throughout the year, and I'm not going to lie, I mostly loved it for the food. So here at Celia's Café, I'm going to share my passion and love for Dutch food with you, as well as the correct pronunciation of Stroopwafel!
But why is it called Celia's Café?
Well whilst I could have named it something more Dutch, like Cloggy Coffee, Celia was/is something closer to my heart; my nana. Whilst I didn't get my Dutch-ness from her (she was from Norn Iron), I did get my sweet tooth and passion for baking from her. A wonderful Nana, and my biggest cheerleader, she would snip out recipes from newspapers and magazines for me to look at and try, and even when I was half way across the world, she was always asking what I'd been baking that week.
And although she wasn't Dutch, she did love herself some Delft Blauw, and there are still many pieces taking pride of place in her kitchen today.
Being half-Dutch, I loved our family trips to Holland throughout the year, and I'm not going to lie, I mostly loved it for the food. So here at Celia's Café, I'm going to share my passion and love for Dutch food with you, as well as the correct pronunciation of Stroopwafel!
But why is it called Celia's Café?
Well whilst I could have named it something more Dutch, like Cloggy Coffee, Celia was/is something closer to my heart; my nana. Whilst I didn't get my Dutch-ness from her (she was from Norn Iron), I did get my sweet tooth and passion for baking from her. A wonderful Nana, and my biggest cheerleader, she would snip out recipes from newspapers and magazines for me to look at and try, and even when I was half way across the world, she was always asking what I'd been baking that week.
And although she wasn't Dutch, she did love herself some Delft Blauw, and there are still many pieces taking pride of place in her kitchen today.
So tell us a bit more about yourself then...
Well, I'm Siobhan, I'm 29, and I am the manager/owner/baker/barista/candle stick maker here at Celia's Café. I previously ran Celia's Bakery, which specialised in good old-fashioned sweet & savoury treats. I was told that I needed to find a niche, and whilst I thought long and hard about what that could be, it turned out to be staring me in the face for the while time, and thus Celia's Café was born. I've had a variety of jobs in the past, and have a degree in film production, but running Celia's Café is by far the best (and most stressful) thing I've done, and sharing this journey with you guys is the icing on the cake.
Well, I'm Siobhan, I'm 29, and I am the manager/owner/baker/barista/candle stick maker here at Celia's Café. I previously ran Celia's Bakery, which specialised in good old-fashioned sweet & savoury treats. I was told that I needed to find a niche, and whilst I thought long and hard about what that could be, it turned out to be staring me in the face for the while time, and thus Celia's Café was born. I've had a variety of jobs in the past, and have a degree in film production, but running Celia's Café is by far the best (and most stressful) thing I've done, and sharing this journey with you guys is the icing on the cake.