"There was no plan, no money, no nothing" - The story of Nibble NQ in Manchester

Lauren said: “There was no plan, no money, no nothing. So everything's taken a little bit of a long while to kind of get how I want them to be and everything like that. So we're female run. So we're like a supportive place that, you know, people are going to be safe and happy in. We've got like a full gluten-free shelf above everything else. We've really like refined the allergy processes and all the rest of it. So people just come in and feel super safe.”

Nibble NQ serve a range of goodies including: mango smoothies, vegan raspberry and vanilla cake, coconut milk matcha, meaty, veggie and vegan breakfasts and that’s just a couple of things!

Lauren explained that starting Nibble NQ was a dream come true and she’d always loved cooking and baking since doing food tech at school.

She said: “baking was always like where my, I guess my love for everything was. So it was always at some point the plan that I would have somewhere of my own and that some of that baking would be me. And I'm not sure I thought that eight years on, it would still just be me that was baking, but that's where we are, but that's fine.”

Lauren said that when she first came to Manchester, she knew the Northern Quarter would be the place she would love to set up and begin her business, highlighting the uniqueness and quirky vibe of the area:

“I think like the good thing about the Northern Quarter is you can just be whoever the hell you want to be and no one's going to be judging you. And that it is more creative and people can be more individual and that, you know, it's not quite as like straight laced as, I don't know, if you were in Spinningfields or somewhere.

Adding: “For example, I liked that things were a bit more free flowing and that, you know, I would be able to run from somewhere and kind of like set my own rules or not have any rules, as the case may be. You can go for a pint after work, it doesn't matter what you look like, or you can go for a pint or a glass of wine or whatever before you go out and you're dressed up to the nines. Like it literally doesn't matter.”

Lauren also said that she feels proud to have garnered a strong base of loyal customers, some who have been regulars since they first opened.

She said: “It's almost been like the most organic, like secure way of doing it in the long run.”

Check out Nibble NQ on Oldham Street for a delicious treat!