The team behind Blanchflower and Longford are some of the originators of the MCR coffee scene and we opened the second speciality coffee shop in the city centre in 2011. We have taken a slightly different path to our peers, focusing hard on baking and food, and we now have a full service in-house bakery at Blanchflower in Altrincham and we have a brilliant kitchen serving hundreds of covers weekly. But, we still make some of the best coffee in the city and we have some of the busiest shifts (and definitely the prettiest location in Longford Park). Many of our staff stay a long time in an industry with traditionally high-churn rates, so we must be doing something right.