25/12/2025
Merry Christmas from Mettricks Portswood 🎄💛
Merry Christmas Southampton, with love from Mettricks 🎄💛
As we sign off at Woolston, turn the ovens off at our Portswood bakery, and serve last minute shoppers at WestQuay, we’d like to thank you, our home city, for all of your support in what has been an incredibly challenging 2025.
Our teams are ready for a well earned Christmas break, with Guildhall, Woolston and Portswood now closed through to 2nd January. Mettricks in WestQuay will be open from Boxing Day to help caffeinate any post Christmas shopping right through to the New Year.
This year we’ve had to make some tough choices and stop doing things we could no longer support financially, as the tax increases and price rises have continued to hit our industry (unfairly) hard. We know we haven’t got everything right. And it’s certainly way tougher going when the tides turn and optimism is in short supply. But, we’ve worked tirelessly and tried our very best throughout.
Looking ahead to 2026, with huge business rates rises on the cards, things aren’t going to get easier. But our promise remains the same as it was 12 years ago: to work every day to Bring Better Coffee (roasted by us) and Fresh, Tasty brunch to our home city all the while creating coffee houses with a home from home feeling, described as Southampton’s Living Room by one of our very first customers, filled with friendly faces to create warm, welcoming spaces for everyone 💛
From our Mettricks family, to yours, Merry Christmas 🎅 🤶 With love from Grandma Mettrick, Spencer, Rodi, Kalo, Sean and the Guildhall team, Dom, Chris, Sam and the Woolston team, Theo, Soph, Sam, Lewis and the WestQuay team and Wilson, Vanessa, Angelica, Nick and the Portswood team 💛