A SHIPLEY pub is reopened to mark its reopening with regular street food festivals on weekends.
The Ring O’Bells will be celebrating the best of Yorkshire street food at their Bradford Road location later this month.
The pub has a calendar of street food pop-ups from local producers and vendors from the region this summer, starting with Mozzafella’s pizzas on Sunday May 23 between 1pm and 7pm.
It will reopen its doors to customers on Monday, May 17, at 3 p.m. after closing in October last year due to lockdown restrictions and choosing not to reopen last month.
Working with local manufacturers and street vendors, the pub has put together an exciting selection of casual food pop-ups coming out this summer that offer a different experience each time.
The Ring O ‘Bells celebrates the pub’s 200th birthday and becomes the oldest pub in the region. With an expansion of the beer garden, he benefited from internal and external refreshment.
The pub is now to become a destination for food events.
The chef advisor who works with the pub to curate these events, Jade Crawley, Chef at Eat Your Greens, launched the menu for the opening of Copper and Moss of Saltaire earlier this year and is also creating a new contemporary Mediterranean vegetarian menu for Freddie’s of Baildon, launching May 17th.
The cost per meal is set at £ 5 per serving. Each seller is tried and tested by a cooking consultant. Each vendor has experience in the street food scene and reflects the ethics of ethical yet accessible food. With lots of plant-based options, but also high-quality meat options.
On Friday / Saturday / Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to late evening, punters have the chance to have a globally inspired calendar of foods like Neapolitan-style stone pizzas from Mozzafella of Baildons and Chicken Wings, gourmet burgers and next level chicken from Holy Mountain Kitchen of Leeds gone crazy about trying junk food.
Also on the calendar are organic beef burgers from Eat Your Greens of Leeds, The Sri Lankan Experience, Kanassa Columbian-inspired street food and So Toasted ‘Posh Toasties’. More names will be released soon on social media.
Holy Mountain will move into two weekend residences on May 29th and June 13th.
Kara Woodhouse-Kent, one of the Ring O’Bells owners who took over the pub with manager Andrew Hardy in January 2019, said: “It’s exciting.
“We are ready and our customers are definitely ready.
“It was difficult in the sense that we had to reinvent ourselves every time we closed during the pandemic.
It took a toll to have closed the shop. But we were always sure that we would come back better than ever
“We keep our fingers crossed that the trade is there, that people are coming back.
“We want to have these weekends all summer and beyond. We want to have them in winter and also at Christmas.
“It will be a regular weekend event for us.
“Jade has taken control of these weekends, we’re hosting them. She organized everything.
“The pub is celebrating its 200th birthday this year. It is the oldest pub in Shipley.”
For more information on each event to be posted on The Ring O Bells social media pages.
The pub has a Covid-proof capacity of 80 indoor spaces with up to 100 seats outdoors. Typical Saturday covers for the Pub-Pre-Covid were 250 with annual major events with up to 500 spectators.