Pork focused restaurant Pigsty closes Bristol site
The team behind the restaurant, former professional rugby player Olly Kohn and his brothers Josh and Max as well as Harlequins and England rugby player Will Collier, will continue to run sister restaurant Pigsty Cargo in the city’s Wapping Wharf.
In a statement posted on Twitter the company said: “We’re sad to say that we will be closing Pigsty Gloucester Road. We’ve had a brilliant year here, but with so much growth in other parts of our business (our Jolly Hog products and concessions) it feels right to put our focus and energy into those.”
The Pigsty team is also behind Jolly Hog, the Bristol-based bacon and sausage maker that sells products into retail via Sainsbury’s and Ocado as well as through a food trailer as festivals.
The Jolly Hog stared out life in 2015 as a pop-up sausage bar in Shoreditch before Pigsty Cargo opened on 17 October 2016.
The team said that Pigsty Cargo, which is open from breakfast through to dinner and serves dishes including scotch egg and soldiers; bacon and sausage sarnies; rolled pork belly and mash; slow roasted pork belly in a brioche bun, would continue to thrive.
