A former bookmakers in one of Cardiff's busiest streets is set to be transformed into an 'innovative' new coffee shop. London chain Black Sheep Coffee is set to take over the former Paddy Power shop in St Mary Street nearly a year after announcing they would be opening at another site in the city centre.
The bookies shut earlier this year after nine years in the street with a new tenant confirmed to be converting it into a coffee shop. A planning application for new signage at the site has revealed the previously unknown tenant to be Black Sheep Coffee with this application approved by the council earlier this month.
It comes after signs appeared outside Southgate House in nearby Wood Street last summer announcing that the chain would be "coming soon" to the vacant site. That branch, which would become the company's first in Wales, is yet to open nearly a year on from that announcement but another application for new signage was approved for that site just last month with the location still featuring on the Black Sheep Coffee website.
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Since being founded in 2013 by university flatmates Eirik Holth and Gabriel Shohet the chain has grown from a stall in Camden to having more than 35 branches across London as well as sites in Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham. It has also expanded to outside the UK with a handful of locations in France, the USA, and the Philippines.
The new branch offers a range of signature drinks, as well as a coffee bean subscription and Norwegian waffles. Signature coffee flavours include Robusta Revival, Rebel Decaf, Love Berries, Blue Volcano, and Bossa Nova while smoothies include mango and ginger smoothie and the Greengizer smoothie, with apple, kale, pineapple, avocado, ginger, and apple juice.
It also serves shakes including a berry protein shake with blueberries, blackberries, bananas, vanilla protein, peanut butter, and oat milk and a coffee and banana shake. The Norwegian waffles on offer also come in a range of flavours from Nutella to 'brown cheese' and jam – a Norwegian cheese served with a berry jam.
The new coffee house will join several others in the street with Corner Coffee, Coffee Barker, Coffee Heaven, and Starbucks all nearby. Meanwhile the upper floors of the historic six-floor building, which was sold to London-based investor The Thackeray Estate last year for an undisclosed sum having been marketed for £1.75m, will continue to be used as office space.
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