The love of pies starts with Clive… now it’s been passed on to Ed.
Our pies are proper pies! Not stews with a pastry top. Each pie is handmade in our kitchen with butter short crust pastry base and a puff pastry top filled to the brim. With each pie containing over 70% meat all of which are lamb, beef & pork are sourced from within 15 miles of the restaurant. With individuality in each pie, no two pies look the same but each with that same comforting taste.
Don’t miss out on our monthly pie nights each with theme, great pies and amazing company.
If you are pie lovers and have an event or wedding, you’d like food for then why not make it pietastic? make pies the heart of it! Our pies are available for events at The Sweetpea Kitchen and external catering events.
Still don’t believe us, hear what Angus has to say…
“Pietastic! Applaud your local supply ethos and pie specialist offer. Big up the pies even more. Great pies haven’t been given the glory they deserve lately. You could be the Pie destination in the south-west! Brilliant!”
If you’re a pie connoisseur, or just someone who likes a proper pie, we’re sure you’ll take our perfect pies seriously.
It was our pie-mad head chef, Clive, who first perfected the art of pie-making back in the early days of our catering enterprise. It wasn’t long before we realised that our pies were winners, and he passed on his pie-master skills to son Ed.
Here at The Sweetpea Kitchen we often get concerned customers arriving late in the day to hopefully enquire “are there any pies left?” – such is the fame of our pies in Bradford on Avon and beyond.
In our book it comes down to:
A hand-kneaded and rolled butter short crust pastry base, with a puff pastry top.
Packed to the brim with slow-cooked locally sourced meat or vegetable fillings with a rich texture that is not too soupy or too thick.
Pies that look as good as they taste – each one different because they are individually hand-made, crimped and egg-washed.
We’re proud to say our pies have garnered rave reviews from pie-lovers from far and wide.
Our pies are made from scratch each morning, with the pie menu changing seasonally (speciality pies of the day are listed on the daily specials board).
We are sometimes adventurous in changing up the filling recipes, but generally our core pie offering features all the traditional favourites – rich, flavoursome meat pies and vegetarian choices too.
Expect to choose from delicious staples like:
All pies come with your choice of thick cut chips or creamy Maris Piper mashed potato, along with roasted seasonal vegetables and lashings of luscious gravy.
Whatever the filling of the day is, you can rest assured our meat pies contain over 70% meat – lamb, beef or pork sourced from within 15 miles of Bradford on Avon.
We don’t just make pies every day to serve in our restaurant.
They are an extremely popular option for people who make use of our private off-site catering services. Pies are a universal favourite that go down a treat at all sorts of occasions from weddings and wakes to award dinners and corporate lunches.
If you don’t have a venue lined up for a special event, you can hold it right here at The Sweetpea Kitchen in Bradford on Avon – the ideal spot with a spacious seating area indoors or out on the wide riverside terrace. We’ll arrange a bespoke menu for your occasion – but we’re pretty sure you’ll prefer our pies! If you’d like to find out more about our exclusive venue hire service please get in touch for a chat.
Last, but by no means least, we showcase our premium pies at regular Pie Nights here at the Kitchen – advance booking is essential because these evenings are the talk of the town! Keep an eye on the events page on this website so you’ll know when the next of these fun themed events in praise of pies is coming up.
Join us for a relaxed breakfast, leisurely lunch and of course our much-loved, proper pies.
