Pure Knead

About Pure Knead

Pure Knead began in 2015 as a stall on Tynemouth Market, opened a shop in Whitley Bay, and then took the Dean Street site on the slope between Grey Street and the Quayside, with a further unit in Gosforth. The bread is the point: a 48-hour process using only flour, water and salt, with no additives or improvers, which is a slower method than most bakery cafes bother with and shows in the crust.

Alongside the loaves and bakes there is a proper coffee offer, with beans from the London roastery Assembly pulled on a Victoria Arduino machine, so it holds its own as a coffee stop rather than simply being a bakery that also sells drinks. Dean Street is steep and narrow, and the shop is a useful halfway point between the Grainger Town streets at the top and the Quayside at the bottom. Monument Metro is around five minutes uphill.

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Best Coffee Shops and Cafes in Newcastle City Centre

Newcastle roasts more of its own coffee than most cities its size. Here are the independent coffee shops and cafes worth walking to in the city centre, from a business trading since 1750 inside the Grainger Market to a railway arch behind Central Station.