Moving to Ouseburn will help our coffee brand after we closed a city centre cafe
A key figure behind a popular North East coffee shop brand has explained how moving to Ouseburn will help the company moving into 2026.
The past 12 months have been huge for Deep North, who have operated sites across Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside and Sunderland this year.
Most recently the brand announced they would be closing their store on Newcastle city centre’s Dean Street.
This follows the brand’s latest full-time opening in Ouseburn, which served its first coffee back in August.
“It’s been pretty busy since” explains Phil King, owner and Director of the brand.
Speaking before the Dean Street announcement, he added: “I’d been looking at Ouseburn over the last couple of years.
This means the brand’s doughnuts would all be made in the larger site at Stepney Bank, before getting shipped across the region for that day’s trading.
“We first saw this property back in January time” explained King.
“We’ve got a plan to open more sites as we go forward so it’s great as a central location.
“[The other businesses] were a large part in moving to Ouseburn. I like to come down here with my family, we’ve got some great independent businesses and we’ve done bits and pieces with people already.
“We did some custom doughnuts for Billy Bootleggers, we’ve had conversations with Ouseburn Farm, we got involved in the Christmas Light turn on, we’ve partnered with some of the businesses already and I think that’s part of the special thing about Ouseburn, you’ve got a large number of small independent businesses all trying to do good things.”
Moving into next year, 2026 is set to be a big one for the brand, according to King. He adds: “We’re keen on opening more sites.
“We’re also thinking about what things we can do with our existing sites, we’re speaking with some people at the moment about doing some kind of pop ups in our spaces and collaborations with other food and drink businesses.”