According to the British Coffee association, we Brits drink a staggering 95 million cups of coffee per day! It’s now part of our modern day ritual to have a quick morning espresso to get us moving or a hot cappuccino to get over the daily afternoon slump. Studies have shown that consuming small and regular amounts of coffee has potential health...
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Earth Day
We’ve just celebrated Earth Day in-store and thought it was important for us to show what we have been doing to help preserve our natural habitat. Day by day our beautiful earth grows increasingly more delicate, as we overpopulate our land, fill our air with emissions and our seas with pollution. Earth Day is a...
5,000th Follower on Twitter? Win Bracken Hill.
It’s been quite some time since we celebrated the fantastic support we have on Twitter. So as we approach a big follower milestone, we’d like to kick-start our tradition and reward our 5,000th follower – and the person that refers them to us – with a treat. This time, you get to pick from our...
Christmas Opening Hours
We’d like to thank you for another fantastic year. 2013 saw us expand our Beauty Salon (a couple of times!), welcome Google to our store, launch a new smoothie and juice menu, release some fantastic special offers and much more. We hope you have a fabulous Christmas, eat lots and have a well deserved rest. Wishing you...
Paleo Polly’s Guided Tour
A Guided Tour of Millies, Fine Food and Local Produce Store, Leeds If you investigate down the isles, you will come across many paleo ingredients. Check out Himalayan salt, to aid digestion. Beautiful pink crystals, it is wonderful to display on your dinner table. I always struggle to find coconut flour, in my more...
Twitter Love (July & August 2013)
Over the last couple of months we’ve seen a bit of sun, lots of pedicures and served lots of cake. And the wonderful people below were kind enough to mention how much they enjoyed it. Had a fab time at @MilliesLeeds‘s beauty salon with Sam and the rest of the girls. Ill be back soon...
Google Tour
Google Street View allows you to explore streets around the world through 360-degree, panoramic imagery. But did you know you can even go inside buildings? Google recently stopped by to capture a tour of Millies. Feel free to wander round the aisles and take a good look at what we have to offer. Don’t forget to take...
Twitter Love – March 2013
March saw our Twitter follower count climb rapidly and get tantalisingly close to 4,000. No doubt this is due to the lovely comments below made by our gorgeous customers. We even sent Lucy to “sausage heaven”. Always a pleasure. Lovely visit to @milliesleeds today. Helpful staff and great range of products — Tweeonie (@tweeonie) March...
Twitter Love – February 2013
February may have been be a short month, but that didn’t stop our wonderful followers on Twitter filling our timeline with lovely comments. Here are just a few: Love @milliesleeds #hiddentreasure really reasonable priced waxing, friendly staff and tasty looking food #generousstudentdiscount — Sophie Taylor (@SCITaylor) February 10, 2013 Popped into @milliesleeds today after seeing...
Starting 2013 with some Twitter Love
As with 2012 we’ve been lucky enough to receive lovely comments over on that Twitter. Here are just some highlights from January 2013. What a great way to start the year. Colour mix Shellac manicure @milliesleeds today turned out a lovely denim blue. :) twitter.com/okayalison/sta… — Alison Sheppard (@okayalison) January 5, 2013 @milliesleeds – For...
Smoothie & Juice Menu
We make sure none of the goodness is lost by using the whole of the fruit in our Juices, meaning the peel, seeds and pits of fruits are included. These are a rich source of vital nutrients which normally get thrown away, so extracting the whole fruit gives you vitamins and minerals that would otherwise...
Christmas Opening Times 2012
We’re open right up to Christmas for all you last minute shoppers! Call in for some Snowdonia & Wensleydale Cheese Truckles, collect one of our Yorkshire Hampers or pamper yourself after fighting through the crowds in town. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. If we don’t see you again this...
Twitter Love: December 2012
We’ve had so many fantastic tweets over the last few months to @MilliesLeeds. Here are some of the stand out messages. We’d love to hear from you too, so please say hi either on Twitter or Facebook. Glittery shellacs for Christmas, thank you @milliesleeds #LoveLoveLove twitter.com/RachKitchen/st… — Rachel Kitchen (@RachKitchen) December 7, 2012 Love my...
Twitter Love – April
Here are just some of the kind words our lovely followers posted throughout April on Twitter. We’d love to hear from you as well so please say hello on there or Facebook. My favourite grocery shop in Leeds <3 the atmosphere, food & freshly squeezed juices! (@ Millies Leeds) [pic]: 4sq.com/INrBvn — Marina Hramkova (@m_viktorovna)...
Your Tweets
Here’s a round-up of some of our favourite Tweets from over the last few weeks. We’d love to hear from you either on Facebook (MilliesLeeds) or Twitter (@MilliesLeeds): Just booked in @MilliesLeeds for a shellac manicure… Love this place! #mymonthlyhangout — Jessica Thomas (@mrs_jthomas) April 6, 2012 @MilliesLeeds I didn’t know you have twitter! Thanks...
Arthur Says “Look Good, Feel Good & Eat Well”
Aurther is a new free local monthly newspaper with independent living at its heart. In their first edition they were kind enough to say these lovely things about us: Millie’s is a thoroughly independent deli-style shop located right in the centre of Leeds. It’s fast becoming a firm favourite with Arthur and a growing number...
Wedding Flowers From Brian’s Florist, Leeds Market
At Millies we aim to support as many local companies as we can. And when it came to organising a wedding, we knew we didn’t have to look any further than what was on our doorstep to find top quality produce. From local cheeses in our Cheese Wedding Cake to Fairtrade chocolate favours specially made...
Millies Goes Mobile
With mobile traffic to our website increasing month by month, we’ve put together a version of our site which has been optimised for smartphones such as the iPhone and Android – m.milliesleeds.co.uk To make it even easier to check our latest treatments from our beauty salon and book appointments, if you have an iPhone, you...
200 ‘Likes’ on Facebook? Free Fruit Juice or Smoothie
UPDATE: The winners have been picked at random. Congratulations to Gemma and Andrew. Enjoy! Our past competitions on Twitter always seemed to go down well, so we thought we’d bring the fun to Facebook. On Monday 27th June 2011, we’ll randomly select two people who will both win one of our new Fruit Juices or...
1,500th Follower On Twitter? Free Bag of Artisan Pasta
UPDATE: The winner is Ashleigh Brough (@AshleeBrough). Ashleigh had earlier tweeted “really ought to be writing an overdue essay. Trying to score some free pasta is more fun though..”. Glad we provided some entertainment, but get back to your essay! Enjoy. It’s been a while since we celebrated the fantastic support we have on Twitter. But...
