The Best Local Pies in the World The Best of Bristol OUR PIES AND PASTIES ARE MADE AND BAKED FRESH EACH DAY IN THE NORTH STREET ‘BAKEHOUSE’. From the opening of the flour bag in the early hours to the packing in boxes mid morning we take pride in the knowledge that our pies and pastys are created with care and attention by our team of workers. Each product is made from quality ingredients sourced locally wherever possible. We appreciate that our customers are loyal to us and we in turn are loyal to our local suppliers. Clarks Pies Chicken Balti trials.... watch this space 😉 Jan 26, 2019, 11:20 AM Clarks Pies We would like to wish all our customers and followers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Dec 25, 2018, 7:57 AM Clarks Pies *Job Vacancy* Part Time Bakery Assistant required. Making pastry and pasties, cleaning up duties etc Hours: 7am -… https://t.co/s1asibVey4 Jul 4, 2018, 11:51 AM Follow @clarkspiesbris PHONE 0117 966 3894 LOCATION Bakehouse 259 North Street, Ashton Gate, Bristol, BS3 1JN HOURS Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday 8.00am-3.00pm Tuesday and Saturday 8.00am-2.00pm Closed Sunday THE CLARK'S PIE The traditional Clark’s Pie is famous for it's pastry, which is thick enough to eat without a foil tray. Made with the same ingredients as it was first made over a hundred years ago: beef, ox kidneys, potatoes, onions and our special gravy. STEAK AND ALE Our ‘newbie’ in the bakehouse, which is still a wee undiscovered gem. Made using ‘Red Ale’ sourced direct from the Bristol Beer Factory just around the corner from the bakehouse in North Street. We cook diced skirt steak in the ale along with mushrooms and onions and encase it with a shortcrust base and a flaky pastry lid. Perfect companion for a pint. CHEESE, POTATO AND ONION PASTY The name speaks for itself. Grated mature cheddar cheese, mixed with fresh boiled diced onions and mashed potato, all wrapped up in a flaky pastry. BEEF AND VEGETABLE SHORTCRUST PASTY Otherwise known as the Clark’s Pasty. The filling is traditional and wholesome: beef, potatoes and carrots. Nothing fancy or complicated. FLAKY PASTY Known simply as a 'Flaky'. Again the filling is the same as the shortcrust pasty - beef, potatoes and carrots. Combining our flaky pastry with the warm filling creates a different mouth watering texture. It's your personal preference which pastry 'jacket' your taste buds crave. SAUSAGE ROLL Simples. Pork sausagemeat in a flaky pastry. Our People Our team of 16 men and women sing (how can I stop them?), dance and chuckle their way through baking the 2000 pies and pasties each day. I like to think that it is more of a social get together! We also have 4 drivers responsible for making sure the pies are delivered on time. If you are interested in joining our team, please do get in touch. We currently do not have any vacancies, but will get in touch should an opportunity become available. WANT TO JOIN US? If you are interested in joining the Clark’s Pies team, please contact Keith on 0117 9663894 for an application form. We will get in touch should a vacancy become available. Story of Clark’s Pies The story of Clark’s Pies starts a hundred years ago in Cardiff, where Mary Clark, the mother of nine children, worked as a housekeeper for a wealthy family. One day, whilst making the weekly steak and kidney pie for the family, she broke the big dish she used and had to make individual pies instead. They tasted so good her friends and family suggested she should sell a few. So with Percy, Mary’s son they started to make pies to sell to passers-by. Times were very hard, so it came as a very welcome supplement to the Clarks income. Clark’s Pies was established in the form of a table on the pavement outside her terrace house and soon after, the first shop opened. The pies are still sold in Cardiff today. In 1929, Mary's son Percy decided to branch out to Bristol, establishing a shop in Old Market, Bristol and continued to make pies using his mother's secret recipe. Six years later he moved to a new premises, 259 North Street, Bedminster, where he was better located to feed the hundreds of women and girls working at the Wills cigarette factory (now the Tobacco Factory). Stories of queues leading from the Bakehouse all the way down North Street to Raleigh Road are retold by many elderly customers in the shop. Percy lived over the shop with his wife and four children. Despite his ambition to be an astronomer, Percy's son, John, started working for the business aged 15 and stayed for the next 42 years. The business was eventually passed to John and then on to his younger brothers, Ken and then Roger Clark. Almost 80 years since the move to the Bakehouse in North Street, Clark’s Pies is still thriving in the original North Street premises and is now run by the fourth generation of the Clark’s family in the business. Roger's daughter, Dawn Clark and her partner Keith Prested both retired as professional ballet dancers with Scottish Ballet and moved back to Bristol in 2001. Both took over the running of the business in 2008 just in time for the recessions…..but they survived and are looking forward to taking the business on to the next part of its journey. Within the next 12 months we are hoping to start delivering by mail order (good news for all the people requesting such a service) The business continues to deliver daily to about 200 outlets, details of which can be found on our Where to buy [hyperlink] page. Read more about Clarks Pies in the books 'Made in Bristol: 50 Stories of Local Enterprise and Invention' by David Bolton and also in, 'Life of Pies-in search of piefection' by Martin Tarbuck WANT TO JOIN US? If you are interested in joining the Clark’s Pies team, please contact Keith on 0117 9663894 for an application form. We will get in touch should a vacancy become available. Where To Buy Get in Touch Whether you’re interested in selling our pies, have a query, or would like to give us some feedback, please use the contact form below, or call us on 0117 966 3894. For details of our shops, please see the Where to buy page of this site. Name * First Name Last Name Email Address * Subject * Message * CLARKS PIES, 257 NORTH ST, BRISTOL, BS3 1JN, UNITED KINGDOM0117 9663894KEITH@CLARKSPIES.NET Powered by Squarespace