The Wandering Goblin CLOSED

I learnt on Friday last week, The Wandering Goblin CLOSED today.

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Actions have consequences. When a fiver is spent in tax-dodging Starbucks and other corporate chains serving undrinkable coffee laced with syrups and carpet bombed with chocolate to render palatable, that is a fiver not spent in an independent coffee shop where they are passionate about coffee, a fiver lost to the local economy.

I first learnt of The Wandering Goblin, Friday two weeks before I learnt it was to close, when I was recommended by Vibe. Then a trek up the hill on a hot day, looking in District on my way.

The Wandering Goblin CLOSED #coffee #coffeeshop #Nottingham

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The Wandering Goblin CLOSED #coffee #coffeeshop #Nottingham

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The Wandering Goblin CLOSED #coffee #coffeeshop #Nottingham

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Today, another trek up the hill on a hot day, looking in Vibe en route and on my way back down.

The Wandering Goblin, a quirky coffee shop, knowledgeable barista , excellent selection of coffee.

I was served a very intense espresso.

In recent years, Nottingham has lost three excellent coffee shops.

• Cartwheel Coffee
• Økende

And now

• The Wandering Goblin

The disastrous Autumn Budget was a disaster for small businesses, loss of Business Rates discount, hike in National Insurance, increase in Minimum Wage. The BID Levy extortion racket is hitting struggling local businesses. Costs have shot up. Cost of Living Crisis, no one has any money, no money flowing in the door.

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The Wandering Goblin

Two weeks ago, I visited The Wandering Goblin , recommended by Vibe.

The Wandering Goblin #coffee #coffeeshop #Nottingham

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Goblin's Stash guest coffee The Wandering Goblin #coffee #matcha #coffeeshop #Nottingham

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp.bsky.social) 2025-07-28T16:25:55.620Z

espresso The Wandering Goblin #coffee #coffeeshop #Nottingham

— Keith Parkins (@keithpp.bsky.social) 2025-07-29T00:03:24.537Z

espresso The Wandering Goblin #coffee #coffeeshop #Nottingham

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A quirky coffee shop, chalked on the board several guest roasteries, most I’ve never heard of. And it’s the coffee that counts.

Today I learnt it was closing on Sunday. Very sad news.

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Nottingham long day

Friday of last week, a long hot day in Nottingham.

A warm sunny day. A day for sitting under the shade of the trees.

Late morning, many trains were cancelled or delayed, due to a broken down train. Luckily not my train, though was running late by five minutes.

Leaving Nottingham Railway Station, a dodgem track, near misses with e-bikes and e-scooters, even though in pedestrianised streets.

Riotous display of wild flowers in Broad Marsh Gardens.

Interview with BBC Radio Nottinghamshire on the bloody nuisance of e-bikes and e-scooters.

First port of call Vibe. My mistake, I order matcha latte. I then order iced matcha latte. I am recommend to try  The Wandering Goblin.

Too far to walk, over twenty minutes walk. I’ll hope on a bus. But first, look in The Speciality Coffee Shop. Who I wished to see, no longer there, gone touring in south east Asia.

I decide to visit District Coffee. Around the corner, only a long walk around the corner.

District Coffee, a lot of attention to the design, but let down down by 200 Degrees coffee. They are changing to Cartwheel Coffee. I miss Cartwheel Coffee. Beautiful ceramic mugs. I buy two espresso mugs.

They tell me, The Wandering Goblin is not far.

Somewhere en route I pass by a bakery. Tough Mary’s Bakehouse.   I bought a spelt sour dough loaf and a bag of granola. Both were excellnt excellent.

The Wandering Goblin a quirky coffee shop. Chalked on the board several guest roasteries, most I’ve never heard of. And it’s the coffee that counts.

I was  recommended try Primary, yet further up the road.

Primary an abandoned primary school, now an art exhibition space. It works, where washed walls, daylight spilling in through the windows. Sadly no time for the art, I was there for the coffee. Tiny, hidden in the bowels of the building. Excellent coffee, but let down by a surly barista lacking people skills. Maybe a bad day.

Now five, I miss two buses. No way I’m going to make my train. I decide to walk to the Old Market Square, then head into Hockley

I pass by a massage parlour. Why not? I stop and have a massage.

My last massage in Doncaster, my neck very stiff and painful. No longer be

I continue to Old Market Square and on into Hockley.

A pleasant warm evening. It is as though I’m in Cyprus.

I find a tebaje at Sexy Mamma Pasta. I order risotto with peppers.

… To be e continued …m