Great North Pie Co has confirmed that it will be launching its long-awaited restaurant in the city centre. It’ll open up its kitchen and bar at Kampus, opposite Canal Street, on February 27.
The restaurant will feature booth seating and 20 covers inside, with a further 30 covers outside, overlooking the canal and the gardens at Kampus. Among the launch pies will be its 14-hour braised beef and ale, a roast chicken and mushroom and the company’s classic Lancashire cheese and onion.
Each of the pies will be served with its own buttered mash, homemade chips and sides including cauliflower cheese, pickled red cabbage, mushy garden peas or chip shop mushy peas, roast onion and brown sauce gravy or the house curry sauce.
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In addition to all this, it’ll be doing breakfast sandwiches too, featuring Cheshire Smokehouse honey-cured bacon and Stornoway black pudding.
There will also be a host of specials changing regularly, including lamb and pea steamed suet puddings, corned beef hash, Lancashire hotpot, and keema and chips. Neil Broomfield, co-founder of Great North Pie Co, said: “Since we started making pies it’s always been an ambition to have a base in the city centre.
“We’d been looking for a while and as soon as we saw Kampus, Little David Street and the gardens, we knew it was the right place for us. While it’s our first city centre venue, we don’t have plans to rollout out any more, as we place our focus on keeping the quality and consistency we aim for.
"We just want to concentrate on doing one thing and doing it well. The mix of traders coming into Kampus is amazing and we’re so proud to be part of it.”
Great North Pie Co has long had its concession at Altrincham Market, and also has a spot in Ambleside in the Lake District. It also supplies pies to Manchester City and Stockport County, as well as Booths and the Robinsons brewery.
The new kitchen will open from Monday to Wednesday, 10:30am until 6pm, Thursday to Saturday, 10.30am until 10pm and Sundays from 10.30am to 6pm.
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