To mark the start of British Pie Week, a Bristol business is serving up its cheesiest offer ever – and it comes topped with Wotsits. For one week only (March 3-9) diners at one of Bristol’s Pieminister restaurants can get their hands on ‘The Big Cheese’, a pie from Pieminister that features vintage cheddar, potato, leek and emmental with cider.
Exclusively for pie week celebrations, the ‘Big Cheese Stack’ will see this cheesy pie served up with mozzarella and cheddar mash, a halloumi, gherkin, pickled onion, and jalapeno skewer, and sprinkled with a crispy onion and cheesy Wotsits crisp crumb. There will even be Branston pickle gravy. There’s a gluten free version for coeliac pie lovers.
Pieminister says: “We know it sounds bonkers, but trust us, it works”. This ‘cheesy masterpiece’ will only be available between March 3 to the 9 – after that it will be gone.
The team at Pieminister goes on to say: “British Pie Week celebrates Britain’s most important contribution to world food heritage, the pie. Back in the Middle Ages pies were known as ‘coffyns’, luckily they’ve come a long way since then and as a nation we eat well over £1billion of them every year! As an independent family pie business we think that’s worth celebrating.”
Pieminister is a Bristol-born name in the world of pies, setting up shop in Stokes Croft back in 2003 and having since garnered a stall at London’s famous Borough Market and a pitch at Glastonbury Festival. Now, with 12 locations up and down the country under its belt – from Bristol to Manchester and beyond – it’s still making pies in its Bristol kitchens and serving up weird, wonderful and delicious creations for pie lovers to this day.