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A cafe owner “never thought” she’d be nominated for an award five years after starting off making cakes during lockdown. Mad Betty’s Kitchen, on Tonge Moor Road, has been shortlisted for Bolton’s Best Sandwich Shop of 2025. Rebecca Martin, 35, from Bromley Cross took over the cafe two and a half years ago – but it’s been there for 7 years.
She said: “I started off doing afternoon teas during lockdown from home, and then decided to buy the cafe. Mad Betty's Kitchen has been nominated for Bolton's Best Sandwich Shop (Image: Newsquest) “I’ve just always loved cooking and baking so I decided to do that from home. “We’ve had our ups and downs with the prices of everything and just making sure we try to keep our prices down for all the customers.
“It makes them more comfortable then,” Rebecca has owned Mad Betty's for the last two and a half years (Image: Rebecca Martin) Have a story? Get in touch at [email protected].
uk The kitchen sells a range of foods with a breakfast and dinner menu, but Rebecca says the main draw remains the cakes. She said: “We do sell cakes more than anything else. “Everything is homemade, we’ve got brownies, cheesecake, sponge cake.
.. rocky road as well – a little bit of everything really.
” After taking over the cafe, Rebecca kept on Tracy Oldham, 46, from Deane who was working there already. Now, the two of them are the sole employees of Mad Betty’s Kitchen aside from Rebecca’s daughter who works on Saturdays. Rebecca said: “I think it’s just a really friendly place to be and locals like it because they get on with us.
” Tracy Oldham (left) and Rebecca Martin (right) said the cafe is just a really friendly place to be (Image: Rebecca Martin) READ MORE: Odessa in the running for Bolton's favourite sandwich shop READ MORE: Armstrong Bakery shortlisted for an award for its sandwiches READ MORE: Cowan's Butty Shop in Farnworth up for The Bolton News' award She said that they were first made aware of the competition when customers started telling her that they had voted for Mad Betty’s Rebecca said: “It was a nice surprise to find out we were shortlisted. “A couple of our customers mentioned that they’d nominated us, but we didn’t think we would get this far! “It would be good to win it, we might get more customers too. “I never thought I’d get anything like this when I started just making afternoon teas and cakes to be honest!” To vote pick up a copy of the paper today.
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