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Editors Letter
Belinda Hargreaves Contents Editor life@timesandecho.co.uk Erin Tuckwell &Tracey Refern Design & Production Jane Walters Advertising Manager Tel: 07817 128582 jane@timesandecho.co. uk
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EDITORS LETTER Community jubilation
There surely has been a wonderful mass of red, white and blue colours across the nation recently for HM The Queens Platinum Jubilee. Its always so wonderful when communities coming together for such celebrations and obviously this one was ratherunique in HM Queen Elizabeth being the only British monarch to have reached such amonumental year on the throne. Happy Jubilee Your Majesty! Ihopeyou will all enjoy taking a look at the features we have in this Stone &Eccleshall Life Magazine which showcase just some of the community celebrations which took place in our area. We also feature some fabulous features of other community news in the area from fundraising and humanitarian aid trippers, and from exhibitions to scout bands. We also take alook at whats coming up over the Summer months theres lots forall the family to enjoy. Happy reading!
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Until nexttime, take care!
Belinda
ADVERTISING FEATURE little seeds
ARESTAURANT has introduced anew outdooreating experience to its venue in Stone.
The teamatLittle Seeds, which is situatedonRadford Street,has opened anew outdoorterrace for diners to enjoy theirculinary delights.
The restaurant is run by Jake and Sophie. Here they tell their story about Little Seeds: Its 2015, we are both working separately within the hospitality industry butboth have apassion to create something new and exciting in the area. We set about plans to create our own restaurant, somewhere we ourselves would love to dine. We secured the capital we wouldneed using start up loans. Then in June 2016 we got the keys to asmall restaurant in Stone and started to create Little Seeds. With atwo-weektime scale from collecting the keys to opening this restaurant we refurbished the whole place, built bespoke furniture and lighting we even had our very own lawn (inside). We started to build aloyal guest base, some people we still see weekly today. Over the next few years we kept reinvesting into the restaurant to bring it to itsfullpotential. Opening with acasual food offering using local suppliers evolving to what it is today, a more refined offering. The menu development is alwaysat the top of the priority list and develops using classical techniques and seasonal ingredients. 2019, the second refurb, we had come so far and setabout Little Seeds 2.0.The grasshad served its time and we welcomed anew woodenfloor, we had achange of colour scheme and some lovely new crockery, much more in keeping with our new menus. And then Covid-19. We pivoted into adine at home service, providing locals with tasty three course meals they could finish off simply at home. We didnt waste the extra time we had on our hands, we transformed the unloved outside area into adiningand drinks terrace with outside bar and upgraded ourprivate
dining room to amore luxurious space to celebrate those special occasions. Today, over six years since it began, we are continuing to create arestaurant that stands out and improves the hospitality scene for the area. We have an amazing young team that have grown with us along the way and we look forward to what the future of Little Seeds could look like.
Little Seedsbrandnew outdoor terrace opened for the first time last spring (May 2021) and was aproduct of thefirst lockdown.
Sophie said: The terrace, which is locatedatthe rear of the restaurant, features asoft furnished area fordrinks and nibbles and also adining terrace. The top drinks area offers the restaurant an additional 20 seats of drinks and bottom terrace afurther40 seats for dining. Just recently, we have launched a brand-new terrace menu which people can enjoy outside alongside afew drinks. The menu is very relaxed but tasty British dishes designed for sharing as acouple or group.
Sophie continued: No reservation is required to enjoy this menu, it is available Thursday 6pm-9pm, Friday 6pm-9pm, Saturday midday-9pm and Sunday midday-4pm throughout the whole summer. Guests can also use the terrace for drinks only or choose to dinefrom the Alacarte menu outside. Anybody with areservation will automatically be offered thechance to dine outside on aniceday if they should wish to. On aweekly basis we offer our Alacarte menu alongside atasting menu, both showcasing the best British produce from that season.
To find out more go online to: www.littleseedsstone.co.uk.
