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‘Exciting’ new bar from Bristol brewery to open in Carriageworks
The co-owner of Left Handed Giant says that opening their latest bar on Stokes Croft will bring an “amazing, unique, individual venue into the independent heart of Bristol”.
LHG will be taking over spaces either side of a central arch on the ground floor of the Carriageworks, which has remained empty for decades but now has flats upstairs.
One of the city’s best examples of Bristol Byzantine architecture, the Carriageworks is a Grade II* listed building built in 1862 and designed by Victorian architect EW Godwin.
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LHG co-owner Bruce Gray says that the new bar will be serving their beer and beer from other breweries, alongside food from as-yet unannounced “an incredible Bristol independent food venture”
The Cariageworks bar will be LHG’s fifth venue in Bristol following Small Bar on King Street, their brewery and taproom in St Philip’s, Brewpub in Finzels Reach, and the Old Bookshop on North Street.
Left Handed Giant’s Brewpub in Finzels Reach, where George’s and later Courage brewery were once located – photo: Martin Booth
“We are going to go in there and create something unique to everything else that we’ve done,” Bruce told Bristol24/7.
“We are not taking the Brewpub over there and recreating it. It’s a venue that has an independent character.”
There will be no brewing at the Carriageworks but there will be big serving vessels like at Small Bar and at the brewpub enabling tank-fresh beer to be served.
“The fundamental of our business is to reduce the distance between tank and tap,” said Bruce.
“Carriageworks adds in another amazing, unique, individual venue into the independent heart of Bristol which allows us to continue that mission.”
The five arches on the ground floor were originally open when the building was Perry’s Carriage Works – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Martin Booth
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