A new café run by a luxury chocolate brand is set to come to one North Yorkshire high street.

Northallerton will soon be home to a Hotel Chocolat Velvetiser Café on the High Street.

Signs have gone up promoting the café which is set to serve hot drinks including coffee and ice cream as well as their famed hot chocolate using their very own creation - the 'velvetiser'.

Signs for a new Hotel Chocolat on High Street in Northallerton.Signs for a new Hotel Chocolat on High Street in Northallerton. (Image: NORTHERN ECHO) This will be one of only very few Hotel Chocolat stores or cafes in North Yorkshire - with the nearest to Northallerton currently being in Teesside and Harrogate.

The chain also operates stores in Sunderland's Bridges Shopping Centre, Gateshead's Metrocentre and in Newcastle as well as over a dozen more across the country.

Signs placed on the unit on High Street state the cafe is "opening soon" but no official date has yet been announced.

One role is currently listed online for the store, however, for a part time sales job paying between £12 and £13 an hour.