
Leading Newcastle coffee cafe owner Kenn Blackman, whose Xtraction Espresso outpost on the corner of King and Bolton streets in the East End set a standard for quality caffeine and food, has sold the business.
"It was one of those things," he said on Tuesday. "Ten years down the track I decided I had so much more to do, and so much more to offer the industry, that has given me so much. So I decided to sell up and move on."