Café group Boston Tea Party is opening its second outlet in Bath next month to meet growing demand.
The outlet – the 17th to be opened by the group since it was founded in 1996 – is in a sensitively restored Grade II building in Alfred Street near the Assembly Rooms. The 130-seat café-bar – due to open on December 12 – is creating 39 jobs. 
Bristol-based Boston Tea Party’s family-friendly café-bars serve up a range of ethically sourced food and drink, including its award-winning brunch and breakfasts, homemade cakes, seasonal lunches and main meals alongside specialty coffees and loose leaf teas.
The company’s existing Bath café in Kingsmead Square was one of its first and is now a thriving hub for coffee connoisseurs.
Boston Tea Party managing director Sam Roberts said: “Our Kingsmead Square café is enormously popular, and we love being in heart of Bath, a city which has championed us since we first started out.
“But while our first Bath Boston Tea Party has a great location, especially in the summer when its outside seating area is the perfect place to people-watch, there has never been enough space inside for the increasing number of customers wanting to visit us and we were aware it was getting cramped, especially for those with pushchairs and young children.
“We’ve been on the look-out for another location in the city to address this problem, and are over the moon to have found a stunning, and very spacious, venue in a historic building on Alfred Street with some beautiful features.”
The previously empty building fronts Alfred Street and runs through into Bartlett Street at the back.
Originally built as a house, the ground floor of the building has been used for retail for most of its history, and boasts beautiful stained glass windows with decorated glass infill along with a dramatic glass atrium.
Customers will be able to enter the café-bar from the ground level entrance in Alfred Street, or via stairs from Bartlett Street. There will also be tables outside seating up to 10 people.
Boston Tea Party has five outlets in Bristol, as well as those in Exeter, Worcester, Cheltenham, Salisbury, and Birmingham. Its Plymouth outlet, opened earlier this year, recently won a major national award for its interior café design.
Four more cafés are scheduled to open in the South West and Midlands next year.
The firm was named Café Life’s Café Chain of the Year for 2014, and South West Food Magazine’s Best Café 2015, along with being named by The Sunday Times as one of the best 25 places to eat brunch in the UK.
