“We should get together soon.” We’ve all said it. Usually with every intention of actually doing it. Then work happens. Someone gets sick. The kids need something. A week disappears, followed by another one, and suddenly “soon” has become a season. There is a strange amount of planning involved in seeing someone you like. We
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Thanksgiving tends to come with a fairly ambitious list of expectations. A beautiful meal. A clean house. Everyone arriving on time. Nobody discussing that particular subject at the dinner table. Good luck with that last one. Here at The Nest, we’ve been thinking about the people we want to thank. And the list gets longer
We recently received two reviews that were difficult to read. And while my first instinct was to leave them alone, I think there is something worth saying. We welcome honest feedback. We also have the right to disagree when a description of our café doesn’t reflect what we know about the food we served or
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Some traditions begin with a lot of planning. Others begin with, “Want to stop for something on the way home?” Then you do it again. And again. Eventually somebody notices that you drove past, and suddenly you’ve broken a family rule you didn’t know existed. That’s how the small traditions get you. A coffee together
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For some families, that means excitement. New backpacks. New shoes. New teachers. Seeing friends again. For others, it means stress. Schedules change. Mornings get earlier. Lunches need packing. Activities start again. Traffic gets worse. Budgets get tighter. And for a lot of kids, going back to school comes with a mix of both. At The
There is something about fall that makes a good café feel a little more important. The mornings get cooler. The days get shorter. School is back, routines return, and suddenly sitting down with a hot coffee for twenty minutes feels less like a habit and more like a small reward. At The Nest Café &
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At least, we don’t think there should be. When you run a small business, especially one like The Nest, you start to realize pretty quickly that the people walking through your door become part of the place. You learn names. You learn orders. You learn who wants their coffee a certain way, which ice cream
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There is a word businesses love to use. Community. You see it everywhere. Community-focused. Community-minded. Proud to support our community. And sometimes, it means something. Sometimes it is just something that looks good on a sign. At The Nest, we want it to mean something. Kindness isn’t supposed to be a promotion. It isn’t something
One of the hardest parts of building The Nest has been discovering that the people who help make it what it is, eventually have to leave the Nest. And right now, we’re saying goodbye — at least for a while — to three pretty incredible people. Mac has been one of the shining lights at
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The Nest Café is not your typical small business. Not at all. Not even close. It is a true labour of love. Yes, we sell coffee. We scoop ice cream. We bake things that are probably terrible for your diet and wonderful for just about everything else. But The Nest was never supposed to be
