Victoria's Coffee Shop

24/06/2024

And it’s a goodnight from us……❤️

24/06/2024

The things you find in the shop loft! When coffee was uncomplicated! ☕️

05/06/2024

Last specials post!

05/06/2024

24 years! Wow! Happy birthday to us and our last day 🙈 Grab your last favourite before their gone for good 😍

03/06/2024

an exciting and unique opportunity!

🛑We’re hiring!🛑

We are looking for experienced wood workers, shipwrights for our latest project in Dundee at the Discovery Point and RRS Discovery.
We are currently undertaking a conservation and restoration works package for Dundee Heritage Trust, with a completion date of May 2025. The positions available are for experienced, capable individuals confident handling and tooling large hardwood beams. In addition to the timber repairs, all ship decks will be re-caulked using traditional tools and methods. Training will be giving for the deck works with successful candidates being expected to work in one or both areas as requirements dictate.
We are working within a live museum environment and all candidates will be expected to adhere to strict JPS and DHT site rules.

Works will be based in Dundee with working hours 9-5. Mon to Thursday and 9-4 Friday. Part time may also be considered.
Hourly rate on application
Free parking onsite.
It is intended for an immediate start date until April 2025, with the possibility of an extension for additional phases.
All individuals will complete a trial period to ensure their skills and work ethos suits the technical needs within a conservation sensitive environment.

Please forward CVs to [email protected]

Jason Struthers
Director

01/06/2024

👀 If you’re out and about in Stirling city centre over the next few weeks keep an eye out for our wee ad at the top of Port Street!

A big thankyou to BT for including us, a company that supports local businesses!

01/06/2024

As staff move on and get new jobs it’s becoming more difficult to cover shifts so we have decided Wednesday 5th June, our 24th birthday, will be our last day ❤️

19/05/2024

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19/05/2024

We are a kitchen person short tomorrow and me and mum are away to London so closed Monday sorry. Back open Tuesday ❤️

15/05/2024

Long post, bear with me ❤️

Sometimes decisions from the heart are the hardest to make and we have made a difficult one. We started this shop almost 24 years ago, on a 10 year plan! we’ve been through many ups and downs but defied those who said we were mad! I’ve had 3 kids who have known me only to do this job and mum has had 6 grandkids. In all that time our world revolved in one way or another around “the shop”. Being self employed has a lot of advantages, it does however, have a lot of disadvantages and our family have lived with both.

My eldest has just started a great career, my middle is off to uni after the summer and my youngest off to high school. Mum had a bad fall 8 weeks ago and has been unable to work. Time is precious and we are finally learning that. It’s time to spend a carefree summer before they do their own thing. It’s time for mum to retire and spend quality time together. It’s time for me at the big 50 to become the employee (with holiday entitlement!)

Covid changed the way people spend their time and money and it’s becoming more apparent things will never go back. Stirling city centre does not offer enough to support the ever increasing number of coffee shops and a council who have no vision and no drive to get down to grassroots. There’s no town centre management and no communication and consultation with businesses on everyday issues. Big events are great but there’s another 360 days in a year. We could spend the next year trying to sell and we probably would quite quickly but we have a couple of obstacles and time is precious, we don’t get it back and our energy is spent. It’s served us well and owes us nothing.

So with mixed emotions we have decided our time has come to let it go, it’s overdue and we are more than ready. We have seen many staff come and go (and come back again!) and become part of our family. We’ve seen babies grow up and even come in with their own kids! We have had so many regulars over the years, ones you can set your clock by and many who have sadly gone. It’s been a laugh, it’s been tough, it’s been a joy and it’s been a burden. But we have definitely made our mark in Stirling ❤️

Our official closing date is June 15th and we will try to go that long, however, as our staff move on it may no longer be possible. So grab your lentil soup while you can, 24 years of it being on the menu every day from the day we opened and until the day we close. Thank you for supporting us for so long ❤️

Victoria and Marion

08/05/2024

Rant time! Stirling council are a joke. In a time when let’s be honest Stirling city centre needs some help, we need an increase in footfall, Stirling council sees fit to increase car parking charges. Not just by 20/30p but almost double in some places. The Vue has now went from £2.20 to £4 a day, £8 a week to £16. Victoria square from £3.60 to £5. It beggars belief that the “visionaries” for our town centre see this as an acceptable move, not to mention how much it now costs workers to park. Add to that the new restrictions in King St that you can no longer load or unload unless you have a van between 9-5 and no longer aloud to park for pickups. If you have a van it would seem however you can park all day! It’s almost like they’re not interested in the direction town centre businesses are going…. Welcome to Stirling! Get a grip 😡

17/04/2024

We’ve had this happen before to a customer. We will be vigilant but make sure to keep phones close to you!