Walters in Whitchurch where Coffee, Cocktails and Champagne are always on the menu. A new business making a big impression in the town.

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00:00so we're here in Whitchurch and a rather lovely business what's it called?

00:18Walter's House of Coffee, Cocktails and Champaids

00:21and you gents are the men behind it, who have we got here then lads?

00:24So I'm Josh and this is my husband's house

00:27How long have you had the business here?

00:29About 3 months now

00:303 months?

00:31We opened on the 4th of July

00:33Wow, American Independence Day

00:363 months, it doesn't feel like a business that's 3 months old

00:40it feels like it's been here forever

00:42Yeah, that was kind of our intention

00:44we wanted to be a business that would settle in

00:46and felt like it had been in the community for a long time

00:49So what's your background, what were you up to before this then?

00:53So my husband Josh was a manager at Costa Coffee

00:56and I was manager at the Salvation Army in Shrewsbury

00:59I was going to take the service that place

01:01Cool, you get your coffees then

01:03so hence he didn't need any training on the coffee machine

01:06he knew what he was doing

01:07No training on the coffee machine, he died straight on it

01:09So for people who haven't been here, obviously they'll see the images

01:12but talk us through the ethos of your business

01:15it's very very chic isn't it?

01:17but without being pretentious

01:18It's very chic without being pretentious

01:20we don't offer a pretentious service

01:22it's very much we wanted people to be able to come in

01:25and enjoy a cup of coffee in Sclander

01:27whether you're spending £3 on a cup of coffee

01:31or £100 on champagne

01:33somewhere that everybody can enjoy and be part of

01:35and be part of the community

01:37And there's a piano at the front

01:39it's not just for show

01:40is it your sister Josh that plays the piano?

01:42My sister plays the piano

01:43but we also have a pianist

01:44which comes in most Friday and Saturday

01:47Yeah, yeah

01:48So she comes in to play for us

01:50and we also have other musicians coming in doing like little gigs

01:54Ok, fantastic

01:55Your husband tells me that you can sing a little bit as well

01:59Not very well, no

02:00That's not what he would say

02:02I don't believe a word of it

02:03So what are you opening to the evening as well then?

02:07We're open from 8 in the morning until 10 at night

02:10Monday to Saturday

02:11and we're open from 10 until 9 on a Sunday

02:15So that's where daytime is more people coming in for a coffee

02:18and then the champagnes and that tends to come in a bit more

02:21Sometimes they come in for a champagne of a lunch time

02:23Yeah, yeah

02:24There's no definitive time as we start serving alcohol from 11am

02:27Yeah

02:28And what sort of food do you offer people then?

02:30At the moment very small menu base

02:32So we've got a whole selection of cakes

02:34We do toast, bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese, bagels, topped with caviar

02:40Yeah

02:41So we do a bit of a selection

02:42We're hoping to increase our menu offering over the next few months

02:45Your cakes look the part, they look gorgeous

02:48Oh yeah, thank you so much

02:49Yeah, yeah

02:50So if people want to find out a little bit more

02:53How can, and what's going on

02:55Like if you've got events on

02:56We have an Instagram account

02:57We also have our Facebook accounts to put the size events on

03:01But most of our events sell out before we even get a chance to post them so

03:05Yeah, yeah

03:06I'm curious, if you're open from that time in the morning to that time in the evening

03:10When do you get downtime?

03:12We don't very often get downtime

03:15Yeah

03:16This feels to us very much like our own home

03:18And we're welcoming people into our own home

03:20Yeah

03:21Giving them the drinks, the service, the chit chat

03:24Everybody who comes in here is like grand

03:27Well it looks gorgeous guys

03:29And you know, if today's clientele, packing it, are anything to go by

03:33Everyone's loving it

03:34So well done to the pair of you

03:36Thank you so much

03:37Tell us a story about this lovely painting of you and your husband

03:40So this painting, a couple of days ago

03:42Was left on our doorstep wrap-truck and bubble wrap

03:46It's got no signature

03:48And we believe a local artist has done it of us

03:51Wow

03:52But it's still a mystery and nobody's come forward with who's painted it

03:55That's going to bug you, if you still don't know in six months who's done that

03:59It's a lovely thing even though we don't know who it is

04:02Yeah, it is good

04:03It was a wonderful honour to be able to be somebody's inspiration for a painting

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