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Westbury Park pub given new lease of life
The team behind The Greenbank in Easton and The Grace on Gloucester Road are almost ready to unveil their latest venture, The Westbury Park.
Featuring vintage and reclaimed furniture, the former chain pub will be reopening after a £250,000 transformation on Saturday, July 9.
The local community will be at the heart of The Westbury Park, says James Savage, a partner at the pub’s new owners who also run Zazu’s Kitchen in Southville and Bishopston (full disclosure: Bristol24/7 consultant publisher Dougal Templeton is also one of the owners).
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Savage says that the aim is to open a pub that anyone in the local area can visit and feel comfortable in. He sums it up as “a neighbourhood pub with good food and good coffee”.
Best known as the Kebab & Calculator from The Young Ones where Madness played in an episode from 1982, the pub has an unusual circular shape and is positioned on Northumbria Drive opposite Waitrose and the Orpheus cinema.
The pub began its life as the Cock o’ The North and has been through many changes of ownership and management, before being renamed the Westbury Park Tavern a few years ago.
A newly refitted kitchen means the new pub will have a strong emphasis on food, with a pizza menu and pub classics like burgers and fish and chips.
There are also plenty of options for foodies, from roast cod loin to ricotta dumplings, with the pub serving lunch, dinner, homemade bar snacks and Sunday lunches.
Opening from 9am in the mornings serving St Werburgh’s-roasted Extract coffee, there will also be a refurbished patio garden area just in time for the arrival of the summer.
For more information, visit www.westburyparkpub.co.uk.
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