A pastry-lidded pie on a heap of mash with gravy and minted peas, the comfort format a Bristol company turned into a national habit from Stokes Croft.
Pieminister started in Bristol in 2003, baking pies at its Stokes Croft site and selling them at festivals until the format stuck nationwide. The Mothership, a pie mounted on mash with gravy and minted peas, became the company's calling card, and the Broad Quay restaurant keeps the hometown link. Bristol's pie tradition runs older and wider, from bakery pasty counters to gastropub pie nights, but the modern gourmet pie owes this city its revival.
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