Aurora Café

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Opened its doors on Saturday, 19th of April 2025 🤍
Family-owned quaint café in the heart of Ashby De La Zouch ☕️ Dog friendly
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We’re a family that has always loved Christmas and New Year and everything around it: the decorations, the greenery, the...
20/09/2026

We’re a family that has always loved Christmas and New Year and everything around it: the decorations, the greenery, the music, the smells and that lovely build-up beforehand. And making a proper Christmas wreath has become very much part of that for us.

Last year our workshops were a lot more popular than we first thought that we had to make more sessions at the end. The photos give a little taste of what we got up to last year — this year, we’ll see what we can create together starting afresh, with new energy, armfuls of fresh greenery and plenty of beautiful things to choose from.

We know our way around a Christmas wreath 😊, but this isn’t about everyone copying ours. We’ll show you how to build one, help when you need us, and then let you play. Holly, fir, berries, pine cones, ribbons, different foliage — the tables will be full, and you don't need to be shy with the ideas and materials.

Come with a friend, bring your mum, your daughter, your other half, or come on your own. We’ll put the Christmas music on, make the coffee and spend two hours making, chatting and getting properly into the Christmas mood.

🌿 Everything fresh and natural
🌿 Plenty of materials to choose from
🌿 Two hours, with all the help you need
☕ A sweet treat plus regular coffee or tea included
🎄 Of course, you’ll go home with a beautiful wreath — but that’s only half of it. The other half is two hours around the table together: greenery everywhere, Christmas music on, coffee in hand, chatting, laughing and probably changing your mind about that ribbon at least twice. 😊

If you’d like to spend a couple of Christmassy hours with us, these are this year’s dates:

Sunday, 29th November start at 6pm
Monday, 30th November start at 12pm

It's £50 per person, including all your fresh materials, two hours with us and a sweet treat with a regular coffee or tea

The magic will happen in Aurora Café • Ashby de la Zouch

Want to come and make one with us? 🎄
Just give us a call or drop us an email to book. We’ll take payment at the time of booking, and then your place is all yours.
📞 07365098258
✉️[email protected]

And if wreath-making isn’t quite your thing — or you simply can’t make the dates — leave the making to us. 😊

We’ll also be taking advance orders for ready-made fresh wreaths. You can choose one of our styles or come to us with your own ideas — colours, ribbons, traditional, simple… show us what you have in mind and we’ll make it especially for you.

We need another pair of hands at Aurora Café ☕We’re looking for a part-time Café Assistant to join our little team.It’s ...
19/09/2026

We need another pair of hands at Aurora Café ☕

We’re looking for a part-time Café Assistant to join our little team.
It’s one of those café jobs where everyone gets involved in pretty much everything 😊 Helping with food and drinks, keeping things moving in the kitchen, pot washing, serving customers, cleaning and all the other bits that make a busy café work.

We’re looking for someone who is friendly, not afraid of a busy kitchen or a pile of washing up, comfortable with customers, but also practical and quick. A bit of kitchen confidence is definitely useful. Our younger team is full at the moment, so this time we’re looking for someone who is past school or college age and looking for something a little more regular.

The hours are 8–12 hours a week, plus two full weekend shifts over each four-week period — around 22–23 weekend hours in total across the four weeks. So weekends are part of the job, but it certainly isn't every weekend.
Experience in a café or kitchen would certainly help, but we're much more interested in finding the right person — reliable, practical, brisk, not afraid of hard work and happy to muck in with whatever the day brings.

Aurora is small, independent and quite busy. There isn't really a “that's not my job” department here. 😂

If you're interested, message Aurora Café and tell us a little about yourself.

And if it isn't for you but somebody immediately came to mind while you were reading this, please send it their way or give this a share. That might be how we find them. ❤️

Well… this wasn’t quite where we expected to find the darker side of Ashby. 😂👻Hauntings, Mysteries & The Macabre: Ashby-...
17/09/2026

Well… this wasn’t quite where we expected to find the darker side of Ashby. 😂👻

Hauntings, Mysteries & The Macabre: Ashby-de-la-Zouch has come on holiday with us to Croatia. Sunshine, blue sea, 26 degrees… obviously the perfect setting for a book about ghosts and hauntings. 😄

And then, almost as if it knew, we spotted what our friends at All Things Horror have planned back in Ashby for Halloween — a Halloween Night with psychic medium Carla Shaw on 31st October.

So now we have a question…
Where is the strangest place you've ever taken a book about Ashby — or spotted something from Ashby when you were miles away from home?
Photos welcome. We have a feeling somebody can beat Croatia. 😂

All the Halloween details are in the last picture if that’s more your sort of thing. 🎃👻

Did you know we also have a book club at Aurora Café? 📚☕BEAN & BOOK meets here every first Thursday of the month.We thou...
16/09/2026

Did you know we also have a book club at Aurora Café? 📚☕

BEAN & BOOK meets here every first Thursday of the month.
We thought it was worth mentioning because there are probably quite a few people who would enjoy something like this but wouldn't necessarily turn up to a book club on their own.

You absolutely can. You don't need to know anybody, and you don't need to be particularly extroverted either 😄 Just come, get yourself a coffee, a treat, listen for a bit if you want to, have a chat when you feel like it and see how you get on.
It's a really nice book club group and enjoyable.

Next meetup is Thursday 1st October.
If you've been thinking I'd quite like that, but… — forget the but. 😊

Just contact us at Aurora Café if you'd like to join and we'll sort the rest. 📚☕

A slightly unusual and a bit emotional post from this week ❤️After 15 months as part of Aurora, we’re saying goodbye to ...
13/09/2026

A slightly unusual and a bit emotional post from this week ❤️
After 15 months as part of Aurora, we’re saying goodbye to one of our team.
Fifteen months might not sound like a very long time, but when you work together in a small family café, through the busy days, quiet days, completely mad days and everything in between, people very quickly become much more than just people you work with.
And that’s exactly what happened here. James became part of our Aurora family, and it’s going to feel very strange not having him around.
Thank you, James, for everything you’ve put into Aurora Café over these 15 months, for all the laughs, all the help and for being there through such an important part of our first chapter. We’re going to miss you much — although we’re certainly not planning to lose you completely. ❤️ We wish you to enjoy your next chapter and let it shape your future career.

And with that, it feels like quite a natural moment for Aurora café to have a little breather too.
We are now closed until 22 September for a short break, a bit of a refresh and to recharge ourselves before we come back and take on the rather long run towards Christmas. 🎄We are obviously planning many interesting events along the way.
See you on the 22nd — rested, refreshed and ready to go again. ❤️

Look at this beauty. Everybody deserves a slice of honey cake on the bank holiday weekend 🍰😃 Aurora Café We have got 2 b...
29/08/2026

Look at this beauty. Everybody deserves a slice of honey cake on the bank holiday weekend 🍰😃 Aurora Café

We have got 2 big challenges with it though.

- How to cut a slice when you are scared of ruining this beauty?
- Will it last till the end of weekend?

Share your thoughts in comments below ⬇️

A little look at what’s waiting at Aurora Café  this weekend…We’ve been busy baking, and somehow we’ve ended up again wi...
28/08/2026

A little look at what’s waiting at Aurora Café this weekend…

We’ve been busy baking, and somehow we’ve ended up again with 13 different cakes and bakes to choose from. We’re not entirely sure when this became normal, but apparently it is now. 😄

And there’s plenty happening on the savoury side too.
Breakfast can be English or Ukrainian, lunch includes our borshch, stew of the day and cabbage rolls, and then there are paninis — from the familiar British favourites to some slightly more adventurous continental combinations — sandwiches, toasties, homemade pancakes with sweet and savoury fillings, salads and, of course, deruny.
They’re not going anywhere.

Quite a few of our cakes and food options can also be made or are available gluten free — just ask us what we have on the day.
And yes, the coffee is still very much part of the plan. ☕️

So whether you come in for breakfast and accidentally stay for cake, or come for coffee and somehow end up having lunch… we understand. It happens here quite a lot.

See you at Aurora this weekend. ❤️

❤️ We're feeling incredibly grateful this week...Over the last month we've been reading some wonderful new reviews, and ...
05/08/2026

❤️ We're feeling incredibly grateful this week...

Over the last month we've been reading some wonderful new reviews, and we honestly can't thank you enough.

We've been called:
☕ "The best café in Ashby."
🥞 "10/10 potato cakes."
🇺🇦 "Wholesome Ukrainian food."
🍰 "A hidden gem."
😊 "Friendly service."
🏡 "A place where everyone can find something to enjoy."

Whether you found us through Google, Tripadvisor or simply wandered into The Pass Courtyard, every kind word means the world to a small independent family-run café like ours. It reminds us why we do what we do every day.
We're incredibly grateful for every single person who has taken the time to share their experience.

❤️ There is one more way you can help...
Our Pay It Forward board is currently overflowing with kindness.
Thanks to the generosity of our customers, we have suspended coffees, lattes, cappuccinos, teas, matchas and americanos waiting to be enjoyed by someone who could use a little lift.
If you know someone who's having a difficult week, is feeling lonely, is struggling financially, or simply deserves an unexpected act of kindness, please let them know. They don't have to explain anything—just pop into Aurora Café and ask whether there's a Pay It Forward drink available.
And if you'd like to add one to the board yourself, we'd be honoured to help you brighten someone else's day 🫂

From all of us at Aurora Café, thank you for your support, your reviews, your smiles and your kindness. We couldn't do this without you. ❤️

Address

Unit 5, The Pass Courtyard, Market Street
Ashby De La Zouch
LE651AG

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm
Saturday 9am - 4:30pm
Sunday 10am - 3pm

Telephone

+447365098258

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