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of applicants who didn’t know how to do anything else.” Now, Stir has a brilliant head baker who can make a huge range of different types of bread and pastries. “The range and the quality that we offer now is second to none, and that comes from having someone who has years and years of experience. The sky’s the limit, really.” And it’s not just Judith who thinks so: Stir Bakery has just won a National Bakery Award for the best bakery in Cambridgeshire. “It sounds really cheesy,” says Judith, “but the award for the bakery, and the fact that we’ve won a Food & Drink award for the cafe every year since we started, is down to our amazing team. Yes, the coffee, the brunch, the bread and the pastries are all amazing quality, but there’s something else there, too.” Judith may not have had experience of running a cafe, but she had plenty of experience of being a customer, which meant she knew exactly what she wanted the cafe to be – and more importantly, what she didn’t want it to be. “You know those coffee shops where the coffee is a bit like a cult, and you feel like a fool because you don’t know what a flat white is? Or what all the different sizes mean? When I opened Stir, I knew it had to be friendly, not intimidating. I wanted it be a place that welcomed people in, and made
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