City centre coffee shop announces closure as group plans 'new opportunities'
A much loved coffee shop has announced it will close just before Christmas.
Deep North, which operates shops across the North East including North Tyneside and Sunderland, announced it will be closing its shop on Dean Street.
Announced on the evening of Monday, December 22, the shop will see a quick closure.
It will make its last coffee and sell its last iconic doughnut on Tuesday, December 23.
This coems following the expansion of the group into Ouseburn this summer, with its newest shop opening at the bottom of Stepney Bank this summer.
Taking to social media to announce the closure, Deep North said: “Some news from Dean St.
“After 2+ years at Dean Street, we have decided the time is right to move on.
“Whilst it’s sad news in some ways, it’s also happy news in many others.
We originally took the property at Dean St as much for the basement kitchen as we did for the shop itself.
“After a few things moved quicker than expected, we ended up growing out of that kitchen space quicker than we envisaged.
“More recently, we have moved into a superb new central production kitchen at our Ouseburn site - meaning we had zero use for the kitchen, which in truth has been a storage area for the last year for the wider business.
“It also allows us to look at new opportunities. The move to Ouseburn in August this year was done with the knowledge that we’d likely look to come out of Dean Street once we found our feet.
“It also frees things up to look at new additional sites - which we may have some solid news to share with you on in the New Year (exciting!).
“We also love Newcastle city centre so you’ll see us back there soon.
“We’ve worked in the last couple of months on finding a new proprietor for 42 Dean St, which we have done - we are sure they’ll be a success in their venture.”
They add: “The last 12 months in particular at Dean St have actually been very positive in many ways and we’ve also done some cool stuff over our time there; pop ups with @soku.kitchen and @hakefoods , our own Cocktail & Doughnuts nights, Fuelled By Doughnuts Run Clubs with @wild_wellnessuk , literary evenings with @optindiebooks etc.
“And we’ve made some proper good friends with some staunch regulars coming back again and again - probably even more so than at our other sites.
“It’s also probably been the one shop that I’ve spent most time in personally with my kids and even had our daughters christening party there - so some lovely memories.
“Our last day at Dean St will be tomorrow (Tuesday, December 23) - I know, short notice! But many moving parts have made it thus.
“We’d love to see some familiar faces if you have time to come and say hello in the busy pre-festive rush.”