The Grounded Coffee Bar will be launching in the former home of The Printer Shop in Unthank Road.
Charlie Day, 42, and her brother Simon Howland, 40, have taken on the vacant shop after it went up for auction in July.
Working as cabin crew for KLM for 10 years until having two children, Ms Day, from Norwich, said how she has “always loved customer service and people”.
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“We always loved the idea of a coffee shop, and now my children are at high school, I can put my heart and soul into it,” she said.
With the premises looking like a “bombsite” at the moment, work is due to begin next month, with the hope to open in November.
There will be outside seating on the street, next to The Unthank Kitchen, with the front of the “comfortable, light, cheerful” café used for the main counter and the back room for inside seating.
Starting “simple”, a selection of coffee, tea and baked goods will be on offer, with the café evolving to meet what locals want.
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