Boston Tea Party will be opening their biggest cafe yet in Bristol when they move into premises on the Gloucester Road that are currently occupied by the Horfield & Bishopston Unionist Club. As well as being the biggest BTP in Bristol, it will also be the second largest in the chain’s portfolio behind a cafe in Birmingham which opened last year.

The new cafe will be created on the ground floor of the building on the corner of Nevil Road (below), with the social club moving to the first floor of the building and a new outside seating area created on what is currently the car park.

The plan is to open in time for the summer. Over the road is Lashings, which now only has two cafes in Bristol after the closure last week of its branch on the centre.

In other Bristol cafe news, a new Grounded is rumoured to be opening on Sandy Park Road in Brislington in what used to be T Cup; and The Kitchen on Silver Street is the first Bristol business to offer “suspended” food and drink, meaning that you pay and put an order aside to later be given free of charge to a more-needy customer.