Its always sad to see a local business close down and this one did fly high when it first opened. Remember them having some sort of franchise in Polar Bear on matchdays, pie and mash with gravy in a cardboard container for about a fiver. That was some ten years ago and personally, although Hull Pies were usually good I thought the price did keep edging up. Also thought closing the shop and bakery on the Cottingham Road/Hall Road/Fairfax Ave roundabout was a mistake. No shop, no sales. Best pie shop these days? Undoubtably Rose Cottage Butchers in Wednesday Market, Beverley. They took over the Old Pork Shoppe Butchers shop and their pies are legendary. A pop up shop at the stadium on matchdays would be a nice little earner for someone???
Is that the same Rose Cottage butchers that’s in Driffield? Or is there more than one? Every time I go over I always get a good selection of pork pies from there!
Some businesses do just run out of steam though. Owners need to work hard to keep up with changing consumer demand, etc and if they are a bit tired of it they might prefer to go off, have a break and come back as something else. Life goes on. Always found the pies a bit salty myself.
It is. They had a stall on the Saturday market in Beverley before opening the shop and it was the market stall that brought them to my attention because people would be queuing twenty and thirty deep before they even properly opened up for business. Agree with Chazz too about the quality of Hull Pies. They were excellent when they first opened but the quality did go down whilst the price went up, I was just trying to be diplomatic in my first post.
same one. They have a couple of shops now, doubled the size of the shop in Driff & a new shop in the far market in Bev near the minister end, so business must be good. Fantastic products. Laveracks in Pock is also very very good
The chunky steak pies at Rose Cottage are superb, as Stacey from Gavin & Stacey would say 'that's well lush'
Jeff Astle: Any more pies? Chicken Licken: Any more skies? Cyclops: Any more eyes? Will Carling: Any more tries? John Le Carre: Any more spies? Dickie Bird: Any more byes? J R Hartley: Any more flies? All Welsh Women: Any more Dais? Winnie The Pooh: Any more hives? Henry The Eighth: Any more wives? When 606 was clever and witty and Robbie Savage was nowhere to be seen.
Fletchers used to be everywhere....In town, Branny centre...They sold the best savoury sausage rolls you've ever tasted in your life. What happened to them? Now there's only one shop, that I am aware of, with the same name and its on Greenwood Avenue. And it never seems to be open.
Think someone said on here about another post recently that it read like a John Cooper Clark poem. This is another such case.
