A mum-of-three who said cooking is all she knows has opened a new cafe in Deal.

Ruth Clist unveiled Mrs Granville’s Cafe in Park Avenue to friends and family on Sunday before officially opening yesterday (Monday).

She served her first bacon baguettes, made fresh to order, to three local builders shortly after 7.30am.

She said: “Cooking is the only thing I know.”

Mrs Clist, of Dover Road, Deal, found herself unemployed for a short while after her former business RVs Fun Factory in Whitfield was forced to close in October last year.

Having spent seven years running the successful children’s playground and its kitchen, she was raring to get back into work.

She said: “I just had to get back into work. I’d been looking around and then this came up about a month ago.”

She collected the keys on Thursday and spent the weekend, with help from her son Alfie and good friend Tracey Gard, putting her touch to the 16-seat cafe, previously known as MT Bellies.

Along with a coffee machine, oven and griddle, she has kitted it out with new tables and chairs and hung her husband Mik’s artwork on the walls.

Mrs Clift was a lover of the breakfast baps at the former Macs cafe in South Street. She said she would like to recreate that kind of good hearty food for her customers.

She is offering freshly baked breakfast and lunch baguettes, made to order, as well as homemade chilli, chicken curry, soups, toasties and cakes such as lemon drizzle.

She said: “I really enjoy nice, quality food at reasonable prices. It’s not about making masses of money.

“I haven’t got much passing trade so I want people to come here and think that it’s nice and then they’ll come back.”

Mrs Granville’s Cafe is open from 7.30am until 4pm Monday to Friday and from 9am until 2pm on Saturdays and Sundays.

She is also offering a call and collect service where people can ring their orders through to her on 07976187163 and collect them at a chosen time.

Her ideas for the future include opening two evenings a week for the retired as well as hosting charity quiz nights.

She has already organised a sold-out quiz night in aid of Martha Trust on February 27.