North Star is a Certified B Corp
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Back in June of this year we achieved something momentous! We, (the Roastery, Coffee Shop and Nova Bakehouse) joined a global community united to use business as a force for...
Collaboration in Coffee
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Having spent most of 2020 locked down without the usual calendar of coffee events to go to, it was a total pleasure to receive a lovely email from our...
New Packaging for North Star
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First and foremost, we needed to find the right partner for the packaging itself – a company who understood the need to review every aspect of it to ensure we...
Time for a Change…
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There is no doubting that the Covid outbreak has brought about change. Good or bad, we have all had to adapt to living in a new way. It has been...
Women in Coffee
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Today is International Women’s Day. A global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. In honour of today, we want to take the opportunity to celebrate...
Pricing Update
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Like the turn of every year, 2022 began with a surge of glimmering hope as we collectively wished for a calmer and more certain year free from the very worst...
A Blog about Bread!
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On Sunday 19th January I had the privilege and pleasure of attending the Nova Bakehouse ‘Introduction to Sourdough’ workshop with Sarah Lemanski – my long time baking hero and dear...
Baristas and Table Service – a match made in heaven?
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Some musings on why we made the move to table service… When we set up our first retail space at Leeds Dock, there was no question in our mind that...