New Boston Tea Party set for Harborne’s School Yard food hub

HARBORNE food hub, The School Yard, is expanding its facilities with the opening of a new Boston Tea Party outlet.

The new café-bar is scheduled to open in late June and will seat around 100 people inside, with space for a further 50 outside in a private walled garden at the Grade II listed building.

The new venue will create a further 20 jobs, with recruitment already taking place.

The School Yard is already home to national restaurant group Prezzo and Urban Coffee Company and developer EDG Property is rumored to be announcing a new food school at the clock tower scheme shortly.   This will see the development’s commercial units fully let.  

Sam Roberts, managing director of BTP, said: “Following the opening of our existing café-bar in Birmingham city centre in 2012, our customers have been suggesting we look at the surrounding areas too.

“We’ve been searching for suitable locations and buildings, and Harborne fitted the bill perfectly. The School Yard is a great scheme with bags of character and enables us to have an outside seating area, which we were very keen on.”

Neil Edginton, EDG Property managing director, added: “This is another great name for Harborne and shows yet further confidence in Birmingham generally.   Boston Tea Party is a great brand and adds strength to the mix of operators already open.  

“This will be the fifteenth site for Boston Tea Party and the first to have extended opening hours, from 7am to 11pm.   We are really proud of The School Yard and are now extremely focused on the new contemporary residential building at the scheme, which will start on site in the coming months.”

In addition to its outlet in Corporation Street, West Country-based Boston Tea Party also has branches in Barnstaple, Bristol, Bath, Cheltenham, Exeter, Honiton, Ringwood, Worcester and Salisbury.