Pieminister Blog
To those familiar with Bristol’s burgeoning food scene, it’ll come as no surprise that the city has produced the UK’s champion pie and burger of 2022. The Beef Chucky 2.0 from Danny’s Burgers took the Best Burger title in the National Burger Awards just weeks after the British Pie Awards where Pieminister’s gluten-free Mooless Moo read more …
We teamed up with local Bristol artist, Parys Gardener, to create a BEAUT tea towel in celebration of our Eat Pies: Plant Trees project. With 5000 trees pledged already through our Eat Pies Plant Trees campaign, we think our new TREE towel (see what we did there) from Parys will help our forest grow even read more …
📸: by @asablackpersonintheuk The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement highlighted to many of us at Pieminister that the actions and intentions of our company have not been enough to combat racism. Instead of an instant reaction or an empty post, we took a step back to think about our actions and to educate ourselves, read more …
Get your sunnies and rain ponchos at the ready, British summer time is back with a bang and with it, comes our new summer menu. We’ve got lots of new goodies for all you pastry lovers. IT’S PATTY TIME Feast your eyes on… patties! Having nailed our pies (if we do say so ourselves), we read more …
We’re mixing things up this Autumn and bringing in some exciting, new dishes that are bound to bring Pie Season back with a bang. Enter Loaded. Our skinny chips have had an upgrade and now come in three new variations – Be Cheesus, with dirty cheese sauce, pulled free-range ham and melted cheddar, El Toro, read more …
#LittleActsofPieness Since the start of June we’ve been inviting community-spirited people to apply for free pies for good causes. These random acts of kindness (or Little Acts of Pie-ness) are helping raise funds for good causes and making people smile. We originally pledged to give away more than 10,000 surplus pies over the summer. And we’ve already donated over 8000 – in the first month! read more …
People of Bristol, Cardiff & Nottingham – 17th March is your lucky day as a whole lot of pie-rish luck will be coming your way! You may well remember our Shamrock pie, made with British beef slow cooked in ‘famous Irish Stout’. Rich, sticky and delicious, this is the perfect pie to wash down with read more …
It’s Apple Day this Sunday – the perfect excuse to drink cider, mull some spiced apple juice….or make an Apple & Blackberry Canoodle! There are quite a few apple-y recipes in our cookbook A Pie for All Seasons but this is the only one with a reference to good old-fashioned a-kissin ‘n a-cuddling in the title, so here it is. *Caro’s read more …
Match of the Day…. As well as providing that rich, malty taste in our moo pie (Seven Ale) we have a special affinity with Bristol Beer Factory because we’re both Bristolian brands who just so happen to be the same age (10 and a ½ years to be precise!) Their award winning beers are brewed just read more …
Our favourite plasticine man Morph is returning to screens on July 4th. Last week we went along to the Aardman Animation studios to give him his first Pieminister pie. We met some funny guys while we were there who also enjoyed our pies (you might recognise some faces…!) Morph’s first Pieminister pie He got stuck in… read more …