WESTON residents have been mourning the loss of the town's Can't Dance Coffee.

The café, located in The Sovereign, traded for the final time on Sunday, January 21.

The company first started out as a mobile coffee trike in Bristol, which proved extremely popular during lockdown, when getting a coffee wasn't so simple.

Posting on social media at the time, a spokesperson from the business said: "Since opening in summer 2022, we have loved becoming part of the Weston-super-Mare community.

"However, we have made the difficult decision to end our tenancy inside the Sovereign Centre.

"Thank you to the amazing café team who have worked so hard to make this space really special."

Commenting under a social share of the Weston Mercury's original story on the closure, one person said: "It was a lovely place, brilliant wholesome soup, tasty cakes and great coffee."

Another added: "It was a nice place to take the dog after a run on the beach. Not enough dog friendly places about."

A third commenter said that they liked the fact that staff didn't make you feel pressured to move on: "I’m so sad this has closed: always found the food and coffee delicious and the staff welcoming.

"The fact it was so spacious and wasn’t rammed meant it was also accessible and you were not pressured to move on as soon as you finished."

One former customer said that they preferred Can't Dance Coffee to many High Street chains: "Loved their coffee, far better than the chains in the High St."

Echoing this, another commented: "They did a great job creating a large open space into a coffee shop, I’d rather pay for coffee from an independent who takes care of how they make their coffee and where their beans are from than pay an exorbitant amount to a company that gives little care to their coffee and nothing back to the communities they are in."

Some have even given suggestions on what could be done with the space. One resident said: "McDonald's should take it, would be permanently rammed during the summer."

A second commenter said: "Sad it’s closing but perhaps the centre could make it in to a seating area for visitors as there is nowhere to sit around there."