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New cafe to open at Colston Hall
It may be some time before the Colston Hall’s grand reopening, but food lovers don’t have long to wait for an exciting new unveiling.
Bowl of Plenty will open in the ground floor cafe area of Bristol’s famous venue next Monday (November 5) – and it has some strong credentials as the latest venture for the Cooking Company, the team behind Spike Island Cafe on Cumberland Road and the Folk House Cafe on Park Street.
The main venue isn’t due to reopen until 2020, but the new cafe will be up and running next week
Laptop on her knee, the business proprietor Liz Haughton is casting her eye over the final design for the new logo. She admits it has all come together quite quickly after she received confirmation that the Cooking Company will be taking on the premises just last week.
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“It is really exciting,” she says.
“I was looking for a standalone space and we were put forward for this one. It will be a soft opening initially, we just want to get on and make it nice and welcoming.”
In keeping with the other cafes she runs, Bowl of Plenty will use locally-sourced ingredients with an emphasis on organic produce and sustainability. Bread will be made in-house where possible and otherwise supplied by Bristol Loaf.
As the name implies, the menu will offer a selection of hearty bowls of soup, chillies, stews and wholesome salads. Liz says she will aim to reduce single-use plastics as far as possible and plans to introduce a BYO bowl system for takeaways.
If opening a new cafe isn’t enough, the team will also be running a stall on alternative weeks between the vegan and Farmers’ Markets in St Nick’s.
The cafe in the soon-to-be-renamed Colston Hall will be open from 8.30am-4pm Monday to Friday and then when there is something on in the evenings in the venue.
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