Blackfriars Priory has opened a cafe called The Good Habit in St Giles, opposite St Giles’ Church.
Planning permission was secured by the Roman Catholic religious order earlier this year, and permission to display signs and install a canopy with cafe branding was expected to follow.
Cafe staff posted on Facebook at the weekend: “Good Habit cafe is open for the first time.
“Come and visit us at the north end of St Giles in Oxford, just opposite St Giles’ churchyard – we recommend the Guinness cake!”
In the summer, Fr John O’Connor, Regent of Blackfriars Priory, said: “At long last we have planning permission, we have the workers on site, and things are moving really quickly with a view to an opening during the summer.
“It’s a great project, it’s going to be a retail cafe during the day, buzzing with lots of activity, and then in the evening there’ll be opportunities for Blackfriars Hall events, events for the community, and also events for the wider public as well, in what I think is a wonderful part of Oxford that is buzzing in so many different ways.”
The unit, at 33 St Giles was a bank up until 2018 and has been transformed into a stylish cafe and events space offering billing itself as a spot for ‘coffee and bakery’.
Good Habit cafe is now open (Image: Blackfriars. Oxford)
Rich Sewell, manager of the new cafe, said earlier: “I’m really looking forward to opening Good Habit this summer. I’ve been working with Blackfriars now for the last couple of years and it’s really great to see how this project has been developing.
“I’m looking forward to bringing this to Oxford, it’ll be a great cafe and a great space for everybody – the public and for Blackfriars students to enjoy.”
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