MEET THE TEAM

We’ve been so lucky – we’ve got our dream team for Jessie’s Kitchen and some of you may recognise them!



Nick collecting The Rep's
third  'Restaurant of the
Year' award!!!



NICK WRIGHT is an experienced Chef Manager whom we thought we could only dream of working with. You might know Nick from the delicious food and his front of house charm at The Rep’s Het Café… or remember his best-in-the-whole-wide-world chilli from the original Westie (West Port bar) … or his world-famous steak sandwich from The Blue Mountains (for people of a certain age!). Of course, Nick has many more recipes than this up his sleeve (he popped round yesterday with some of his amazing scones to prove it – please pop round any time, Nick!!) as well as bringing fantastic ideas, experience and inspiration for every area of Jessie’s Kitchen. We’re proud to have him on board!

MARLYN JEFFERY took early retirement from DC Thomson at the end of last year and is sorely missed, not just for her not just for her fabulous organisational and people skills (she’ll kill me for putting that) but for making us laugh! Then laugh some more! People who know her well also know she’s also a great cook! Marlyn was the person everyone asked about everything and she never let us down – now, lucky for us, those skills have been transferred to Jessie’s Kitchen (and she’s been sending us delicious-looking pics of all the new recipes she’s been trying out!). Fantastic to have you on the team, Maz!

BACK TO THE FUTURE

You can’t look to the future without looking back at the past and there wouldn’t be a Jessie’s Kitchen without Alec and Jessie Turriff. Many of you will have known them… parents of Ian and Sandy, in-laws to Irene, grandparents of Ross and Laura, great grandparents of Maya, Hope, Evan, Jayden and Nathan. They are where Turriff’s Broomfield Nurseries started and the reason we are lucky enough to be able to build on the business’s success today. It’s poignant, yet somehow it fits, that Jessie’s Kitchen will fill their house (and kitchen!) with friends and family once again. Gran and Grandad would have been proud, we think.

Hello and WELCOME… to the start of something big, hopefully!! (But something small, friendly and a bit warm and fuzzy, too, if all goes to plan...).

This Blog is about our (and by that I mean Ross, Jacquie and Turriff family’s) hopes, wishes, DIY/builder adventures(!) - and no doubt trials and tribulations - as the dream that we’ve had for a long, long time becomes Jessie’s Kitchen, (instead of ‘Turriff’s Caff’ as our long-suffering friends and family have known it for some time now...).

The PLAN… selfishly, to open a café which offers everything we know WE like in a café – but can’t always find. Although we’ll (hopefully!) be too busy to experience it for ourselves. Hang on a minute, we really haven’t thought this through properly, have we…???

Because let’s face it, when you find the ‘right’ café, it becomes a home-from-home (although Ross would say that was just me, while on maternity leave. Ahem). Somewhere to meet friends, bring the family… or just find a quiet table for one with a coffee, the paper and a sigh of relief...

You’ve also got to have good food, of course; whether it’s an indulgent treat or the healthy option. Which, in our opinion should still be a treat, too!

And if you care about where your food comes from, you can relax because so do we – we plan to offer fresh, local if possible, sometimes even home grown, ingredients. In summer, you’ll even be able to look out of the window and watch us picking the veg for JK salads (and have the last laugh as you relax and chat with friends!).

We also reckon atmosphere is just as important – great surroundings and a warm welcome for everyone, including families. Having three children ourselves, we’ve been there! We want to make Jessie’s Kitchen special for little ones, which will hopefully allow parents to relax and enjoy, too.

And finally, we’re planning a few of those special and memorable touches which are hard to put your finger on but we hope will lift us out of the ordinary and make us your favourite place to visit.  According to our girls, ‘fancy’ toilets are top of the list(!), but we have big plans for the rest of the place, too!!

So, right now, it’s all a bit scary…. but probably the most exciting thing (barring the arrivals of our Gang Of Three – although, it has to be said, this is close and may even be slightly scarier!!) we’ve ever done. Gulp.

We hope you’ll wish us luck – and come and see us sometime around June 20^th, all going well!




Broomhall, where it all began.
 We hope you'll visit us to see how things have changed.