It has been a long time coming, but a well established coffee shop chain finally opens its stunning new café today.
Boston Tea Party has taken over the building on Whiteladies Road formerly home to River Cottage Canteen, which closed in February 2020.
Its new two-storey site is an amalgamation of its former branches on Whiteladies Road and in Clifton Village, which both closed at the back end of last year.
With space for around 140 customers, the new café is staffed by Boston Tea Party employees who formerly worked at the two aforementioned branches.
After holding a soft launch at the weekend, it will open to the public at 8am today (June 3).
Brand Director Anita Atkins said: "We are incredibly lucky to have had the chance to take on such a beautiful building, full of original features, it already feels like home.
"It is a great time to be doing something positive and we’re more than ready to get serving the local community brilliant breakfast, lunch and coffee."
The café is fully accessible as well as feeding friendly and dog friendly, as all other BTP cafes up and down the country are.
It serves ethically sourced food and drink, including its award-winning all-day breakfasts and lunches alongside specialty coffees, loose-leaf teas and homemade smoothies and juices.
In addition, it will "continue the business’ pledge to the planet," which includes no single use coffee cups, continuing to remove single use plastic from the supply chain and an upcoming carbon audit.
The Bristol-founded company - which is "on a mission to prove that doing good is good for business" - reported a loss of a quarter of a million pounds in 2019 after becoming the first UK café chain to ban single use cups in June 2018.
There will be five Boston Tea Party sites in Bristol after the launch, in addition to a further 17 across the UK.
More information about Boston Tea Party can be found on its website.
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