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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Business
Jim Kellar

Xtraction Espresso owner hangs up the apron

Kenn Blackman has sold popular cafe Xtraction Espresso in Newcastle's East End. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

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."

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