02-08-2025
Hugely popular Sutton Coldfield café announces move in expansion plans
A popular café in Sutton Coldfield has confirmed it is moving premises – but it is not going far away and will see a big expansion.
Silver Tree Bakery tentatively opened in Sutton's Gracechurch Centre in the former Ernest Jones jewellers premises around a year ago. in August 2024.
It was an expansion from the businesses' first shop in in a Scandi-style hut next to their homes in Water Orton Lane in Minworth, but a 'pop-up' which was initially due to stay until Christmas.
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It first opened from Friday to Sunday to test the water, but was an immediate success and quickly expanded its opening times to a six-day-a-week operation from Tuesday to Sunday. The business also extended its lease beyond Christmas.
Now the Silver Tree's owners have confirmed they are moving their town centre site.
They will head just a few doors up to the former Office show shop premises which faces Bishops Court, opposite WH Smith's.
The new shop will be a bigger unit than the current site and allow the business to offer a lot more.
The owners say it is 'more than just an upgrade' and will be an 'extended version of everything you already love about Silver Tree'.
The new shop will have an 'extended menu' and not be 'just grab and go'.
It will have indoor and outdoor seating – but more of it. And 'real crockery & cutlery' is also being added.
A new element will be a brand new private co-working area upstairs and a 'multi-use event space for the community'.
In a post on Facebook, Silver Tree Bakery's owners, Kirsty Cosgrave and he brother, Kirk Bick, said: 'We've been a little quiet lately… but that's only because we've been working on something very exciting behind the scenes.
'As we approach our 1-year anniversary at Gracechurch, we're thrilled to finally (and officially) announce that Silver Tree Bakery is expanding — and yes, it's probably the worst kept secret in Sutton Coldfield.
'We've just picked up the keys to our brand new home at Unit 194 in the Gracechurch Shopping Centre, and we're getting to work straight away."
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The post continued: 'We've listened to your feedback, and we're building something special, not just for us, but for you, our local neighbourhood hub.
'Massive thanks to Gracechurch, SAV Group, and BPG Holdings. They have big plans for the centre, and it's only right we have big plans too!'
The new look Silver Tree Bakery will take a little while to put together with the opening expected in 'several months'.
Elsewhere in the Gracechurch Centre, another café, Roma, has reopened after being closed for more than six months.
The venue in the former Patisserie Valerie premises (version two, within the inner centre) had closed around Christmas-time.
But its not back open with a staff member saying it is 'under new ownership and management'. It has retained the same menu.
