Blank Street Coffee is opening its first Liverpool store at Liverpool ONE on Sunday, November 1, with the team saying the city has been its “most requested site”.
The American coffee chain is taking over the former Krispy Kreme unit on Paradise Street. The doughnut brand has moved nearby, close to UNIQLO.
Expansion across the UK
Blank Street Coffee already operates several locations in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow. The company began as a coffee cart in the garden of a Brooklyn diner in 2020 and opened its first UK site in London in 2022. It also has outlets in New York, Boston and Washington, DC.
New openings in Bristol and Cambridge are planned to coincide with the Liverpool launch.
Design and menu
The Liverpool store is a standalone kiosk with a curved façade that mirrors the brand’s first location, Wythe Diner in Brooklyn. It is the first time Blank Street has built this style of kiosk in the UK. Inside, a mirrored stainless steel counter runs the length of the kiosk under halo lighting.
The menu features signature drinks including the White Chocolate Matcha, Blondie Latte and Matcha, alongside flat whites, lattes, iced coffees and cold brews. A limited-edition Autumn Menu will be available from opening day, including the Cinnamon Bun Latte and Matcha, and the Harvest Chai Matcha, all served hot or iced.
Liverpool will also be one of the first stores globally to offer Blank Street’s new ice cream, made in Switzerland from six natural ingredients and finished with a signature shell in matcha, coffee or chocolate.
Opening celebrations
To mark the opening, Blank Street is offering special gifts for Liverpool customers who have requested the brand’s arrival, and has formed new local partnerships with run clubs and community groups across the city.
Ignacio Llado, co-founder at Blank Street, said: “We finally landed in Liverpool, quite literally. Two years of work, then the whole store came in on a crane in the middle of the night.”
Head of marketing Isobel Watkins added: “This is probably the most requested city we've ever had. When news broke that we were coming to Liverpool, the internet really did explode, which was amazing to see.”
