Crisp-shelled falafel piled over salads, hummus and pickles, the box lunch that built one of Bristol's longest market queues at the Glass Arcade.

Falafel became Bristol lunch vernacular through St Nicholas Market, where Eat a Pitta grew from a single stall into the city's defining queue. The family recipe behind its falafel is decades old, the boxes are built to defeat you, and the format spread with the business across five Bristol branches. In a city that votes with its lunch hour, the falafel box beat the meal deal.

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