Colour Coffee Company, the group that has managed city centre coffee shop Pink Lane Coffee since 2012, will be opening a branch in Sandyford called Colour Coffee Roastery in the new year, JesmondLocal can reveal. The new shop will be located in a currently vacant premises on Back Goldspink Lane.

Opened in May 2012, Pink Lane Coffee is a coffee shop brewing some of the UK’s top speciality coffee.

“We get a lot of our customers coming to us because of the quality of our coffee,” said Anth Atkinson, one of the owners of Colour Coffee Company. “It’s what really separates us from other coffee shops nearby.

“Coffee is a seasonal product and so changes with the season,” said Atkinson. “But we tend to have on five coffees at a time from different origins – two espressos and three filter coffees.”

According to the company, the way they serve coffee will not really change in the new Sandyford branch, due to open in January.

“We care about serving excellent speciality coffee in a very cosy environment and we take our coffee very seriously,” Atkinson said.

Colour Coffee Company is owned by Anth Atkinson and Alan Ramsay. Both of them have extensive business experience. Atkinson comes from a coffee background and has worked in the coffee industry for a number of years. Ramsay, a Jesmond resident, runs Roots and Wings, a social enterprise design company based in the Ouseburn.

“Except Colour Coffee Roastery which will be opened in January, we currently have another coffee shop named Colour Coffee Quayside which is open now inside Whosit and Whatsit [a newly-opened shop in a Grade II listed building on the Quayside],” said Atkinson.

“Both are going to be different in their own ways, fitting their surroundings and offering a different coffee experience.”

James Porter, a regular customer of Pink Lane Coffee, welcomed the expansion. “I come here most days on my lunch hour and I get a cup of coffee. It’s part of my routine and it’s great to know they will have a new one in Sandyford. I will try it if I’m nearby.”