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Hickory Pig on Bath Street
It takes a leap of faith to be a street food stall on a street still being built.
But that’s exactly where Hickory Pig can now be found every Friday from midday to 2pm at the end of Bath Street, off Victoria Street near Bristol Bridge.
You can imagine the meeting of the Finzels Reach marketing team. “Street food is cool. Let’s get some street food. That will make us cool.”
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That there is barely a street to speak of obviously didn’t matter among the innovative blue sky thinking.
One can only feel sorry for a business so reliant on footfall located in an area where there were more centimetres of water in a large puddle in front of Hickory Pig’s truck yesterday than people walking by.
Once you have located Hickory Pig, however, you will find that they are doing a very good job.
Known for their appearances at the Three Tuns, Small Bar and Temple Quay market, they describe themselves as “barbecue meets New York deli”.
Buxton Butchers of Winterbourne supply the meat, which is then smoked low and slow for that authentic barbecue flavour.
The buns are from Mark’s Bread in Southville, vegetables are grown locally, pickling done in-house, and coleslaw and fries cut by hand.
Options include the barbecue pulled pork (£6) and the Korean rib-eye burger (£7), the Korean theme continuing with the “Psy fries” (£7), skin-on fries topped with Korean barbecue rib eye steak, caramelised kimchi, cheddar and chilli mayo.
This particular type of dude food should be popular enough to draw a crowd well away from the main thoroughfare.
But a street food stall needs a street with people, and until this happens there could well be hiccups for Hickory Pig.
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