Does the Interlude Café have what it takes to be voted the best of Bradford?

We’re searching for the best businesses in Bradford, and we need your help.

We launched our Bradford Means Business Awards 2011 just before Christmas, with a host of categories for the district’s companies – from single entrepreneurs to organisations which employ thousands – to enter themselves in.

But we also want to hear about the best employers and those who provide the best public services or customer satisfaction, and those nominations are better coming from the people who know best.

So two categories – Retail/ Hospitality Business of the Year, sponsored by Welcome To Yorkshire, and Employer of the Year, sponsored by Last, Cawthra, Feather Solicitors – will be judged by our panel on the basis of nominations from, in the first instance, the general public and, for the second category, the workforce.

In the Retail/ Hospitality Business of the Year category, we want to hear about the highest standards of customer service from our readers’ favourite businesses.

It might be a hotel, pub, restaurant, shop or any business that has day-to-day contact with the general public.

Entries are rolling in and one of the nominated businesses in this category is the Interlude café on Westgate, Shipley.

One reader wrote that the business “always gives pleasure by a warm welcome and personal attention by proprietor/owner Sarah.

“Wonderful varied home-cooked food, fresh baked confectionery, clean, attractive staff, and premises which are delightfully 1930s-themed. A totally refreshing time-out break from busy lives during the day.”

Another said: “All in all, this tearoom is an absolute delight and something that, these days, you would have to go much further afield to enjoy. That we have such a little gem on our doorstep really is something that we should all be proud to support.”

There’s still time for you to get your nominations in. We’re accepting first-stage nominations on our website at telegraphandargus.co.uk/bradford-meansbusiness, or by the coupon on this page. All entries have to get to us by the deadline of Friday, February 11.