A stunning community café, which opened earlier this year in the heart of a coastal village, is offering a range of delicious Italian food plus traditional cream teas, through to a Sunday roast and bangers and mash.
Cibo Community Interest Company runs the café which is part of the new sheltered housing scheme at Marram Green off Hall Road in Kessingland.
Director Helen Meneghello has worked in supporting adults for a number of years, but it was coming second in an East of England Cook Off cookery competition that led her to set up a restaurant as a social firm, to provide employment opportunities for adults disadvantaged in the labour market.
“I’d been looking for something that I could use as a social firm and once I realised my cooking was so good, I thought I could really use food as a vehicle for developing the idea.” said Helen
The light and airy café, adjacent to the new local library provides the ideal place for villagers and holiday makers to meet and eat, as well as providing a seven day a week service for residents. Cibo currently provide two training places for adults who have difficulty with conventional study methods and hope that as customers increase they can expand to provide more places and assisted employment.
Marram Green also has meeting rooms available to hire.

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