Simplicity Rules The Day

British Pies

I’ve discovered another true local bakery, Browns bakery of Heywood.  From my own experience, if you don’t know where Browns Bakery is, in what to me was the labyrinth of streets near Pilsworth road, you would miss it.  And that would be a shame. I was greeted with the cheery banter of Val. I went …

Harefield Happiness.

British Pies

It’s been some time since I had seen any of work colleagues (that’s if you don’t count the fuzzy broken images on Zoom into account).  So when we had an impromptu get together out towards Widnes I also took the opportunity to dive into the farm shop that is attached to Harefield Coffee Barn just …

It’s Simply To-Pie-For Darling.

British Pies

As an Organisation we’ve been fortunate at the British Pie Association to have previously sampled produce from To-Pie-for, the Warrington and Manchester based Artisan bakers.  We always buy our pies so that we can remain independent and not feel obliged to give glowing reviews, so when we heard they were going to brave the winter weather …

Life in the Pie Lane

British Pies

Eagles Crag Crusty Pie Company I first came across Eagles Crag Crusty Pie Company when I was recently at Holmes Mill Food Hall in Clitheroe having a late breakfast. According to their Facebook page the enterprise was established during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. I also discovered there was a link to the Staff of …

Accio Pie rather than Stupify

British Pies

Returning to the theme of Artisan Bakers and Clitheroe I was wandering up Whalley Road and spotted Mark’s Artisan Bakery and Pie Shop.  Although it looked a bit dark inside as I pushed open the door and stepped down into what I would imagine a bakery in Diagon Alley would be like, I quickly learnt …

Pork Pie and a Yellow Jersey

British Pies

Pork pies certainly are the current trend or could I possibly say flavour of the month. This is my third sampling in a row. And it came about by accident. During a cycle out towards the famous Crag Vale climb at Mytholmroyd, that which the Tour de France used in 2014, I was caught in …

A Pork Pie with Altitude

British Pies

La Patisserie and Bakery, Llandovery With the easing of lockdown measures across the home nations came the opportunity to sample not just a bit of freedom, but some locally produced pies. Always a positive. So while passing through Llandovery, near the Brecon Beacons National Park I espied ‘La Patisserie & Bakery’. A traditional bakery with …

The Art of Pie

British Pies

“Artisan”, defined as “a worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand.”. So, when I approached the Artisan Bakers in Clitheroe, I immediately knew that the pies would be handcrafted by a skilled baker.  The small shop opened in September 2020, quite a brave move in the middle of the …