For episode 3 of Past The Pour, we're rounding off 2025 and the last 8 years - to start 2026 on a clean slate.

We're saying some of things we wish we could've said, asking each other some juicy questions and telling some brutal truths.

We’re well and truly spilling the tea (/coffee?) on all of the best and worst moments, things we regret and what we would change if we did it all again!

What's it really like working with each other?

The reality of managing personal and professional relationships, the impact of a community, regretting leases and payrises, toxic work environments, workplace hierarchies and whether a workplace should be like a family?

And if you want some more tea...send us your questions!

We want to tell you what YOU want to know?

Leave them in the comments or message us and we'll answer them anonymously in another episode 🤐

Why is culture so important within the coffee industry, and how is food and drink used as a cultural mechanism? Discussing culture, the history of coffee, globalisation and considering whether we have sacrificed culture for consumerism.

A re-cap of last year's (2024) talk at the Manchester Coffee Festival.

Welcome to Past The Pour!

Coffee, culture and conversations with Abda Obeid-Findley and Sophie France, owner and manager of ABDA - Coffee - Culture.

In our first episode...

- Why have we decided to close our beloved coffee, cake and culture dream?

- Discuss the struggle to survive as an independent business

- Should we have to sacrifice our culture, origins and roots to fit in and succeed?

- Changing dynamics of the high street, and Northwich.

Where can you find us?

• ​CELESTE, Holmes Chapel

Speciality, cultural coffee shop by day.

Cocktail, wine and tapas bar by night.

@celeste_solci | www.celestesolci.co.uk

• ABDA - Coffee - Culture

Mobile coffee and cocktail bars.

Coffee training and experiences.

Celebration & Wedding Cakes.

Event Catering.

@abda_alchemists | www.abdas.co.uk

​Follow our socials:

​@kahwa.byabda | @brewed.bysoph

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