Mother of all coffee shops
After selling millions of cups of the stuff, in a 35-year career that saw the café queen run ten shops and bakeries in Ireland and Britain, you’d reckon she’d served it all.
But, for all her experience, she’s still a coffee-bean barista beginner. Mary Rose might handily serve up a low-fat, decaff latte with no foam, but “back when I started it was just ‘tea or coffee, black or white?” says the woman whose early coffee shop days saw cream spread across coffee mugs, and cream mounds, avalanching over warm apple tarts. Not only was that posh, but prawn sandwiches were all the biz, so we’re talking late 1970s.
