1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Pieminister

Bristol, 2025-07-28

We’ve been given a surprise budget to spend on the interns as they’re about to leave, and having done stuff like minigolf and board game cafés, we figured let’s just go for a nice meal. That’s easier said than done on the budget we had with 10 people, but I’ve never let that put me off! Pieminister it is, a good old friend where the prices are predictable and it’s big enough to fit us all in. There’s a slight cock up with their deliveries that day, meaning a lot of the pies we’ve pre-ordered aren’t available, so they give us the first round of drinks on the house for our troubles, which certainly helps the budget a bit. I go for the Deer & Beer, as a change, which is - to my uncultured tastes - the same as any other pie. Delicious all the same, but I’m hardly writing home about the differences. I have it proper Mothership style, with the mash and peas and gravy and cheese and crispy onions. The dream. It does the job nicely as a farewell to this lovely cohort.