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By day, people come in with laptops and colleagues, and they drink organic Fair Trade coffees and teas while they admire the artwork, but on weekend nights, they come in for live music presented by local jazz artists, singers and songwriters. She opened the Funky Monkey in September 2007, and almost immediately it became a destination spot.
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This is the dream of Tracey Burrill, a former Californian and self-described foodie, who settled in Cheshire with her family and wanted to create a space where talented people could come and hang out, show their work, surf the Web with free Wi-Fi, meet each other - and eat fresh, delicious food at the same time.
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