Crosstown, the speciality coffee and doughnut chain, is opening its fourth regional site in Bristol next month. Located on Queens Road, Clifton, it follows Brighton, Cambridge and Oxford sites outside of London for the 27-strong business.
Founded by JP Then and Adam Willis, the business was backed with a £3m investment last year from Foresight, who also supported Mowgli and Roxi Leisure.
Willis said: “After an extremely challenging 2022, most of us will be looking forward to a better 2023. At the start of 2023 we said goodbye to our store at 35 Piccadilly due to the Crown Estate redeveloping the entire building. It has been an honour to have a store on one of the world’s most famous streets. As they say, one door shuts and another door opens. In the first two months of the year, we see two new Crosstown open. The first being a brand-new kiosk with TFL at the Shoreditch High Street overground station. The first time Crosstown ever got to pair our artisan coffee offer with our doughnuts was in 2014 when we did a six-month pop up at Piccadilly Tube Station. We can’t wait to greet the commuters in Shoreditch High St Station with a great hot drinks menu and London’s freshest sourdough doughnuts. This kiosk opens late January.
Our second Crosstown of 2023 is our new store in Bristol at 21 Queens Road, Clifton, which will open late February. Bristol is such an exciting city to be bringing Crosstown to. There is a real vibrancy about the city and the Clifton area. The store is undergoing a total refit and it will have the full Crosstown offer of doughnuts in store and online 7 days a week, coffee, cookies and a scoop bar. We are under no illusions that 2023 is going to be a very tough year. But we are in the job of making life that little bit more enjoyable for people as we all face life’s challenges. We are here to give people a moment away from the madness that constantly surrounds us.”
