Cafe chain Pão Pão will be opening its new Lancaster coffee shop on Thursday in the ground floor units of the new Travelodge development on the corner of King Street and Spring Gardens.

“The interior environment has been configured so as to provide a state of the art coffee culture establishment,” say the owners, who clearly have an eye on attracting the attention of students living on Penny Street – not just now, but when the new student accommodation opens later this year at the top of that thoroughfare.

And just in case a configured environment doesn’t cut it for you, according to their website they also offer free iPad use with your coffee.

This will be the third shop trading under the Pão Pão brand, with a fourth due to open in Manchester city centre in mid February 2012. A cafe in Ambleside is also set to open soon.

• More info at:  http://paopao.co.uk/