Bristol’s successful upmarket bangers-and-mash restaurant and bar The Clifton Sausage is to open a branch in Bath later this month. The firm is to take over the former Cow Shed restaurant in Bladud Buildings on The Paragon.
The 80-cover restaurant in a Grade II listed Georgian building will re-open under the Clifton Sausage name on October 22.
The Clifton Sausage, in Clifton Village, opened in 2002 and has built a reputation based on traditional British food. Two years ago it was bought by its manager Simon Quarrie with a loan from NatWest.
At the time Mr Quarrie, who had worked at the restaurant for 10 years, said he planned to expand from its single restaurant into nearby cities, including Bath.
Mr Quarrie, who runs the Clifton Sausage with his wife Joy, said: “We have been looking for a long time for the right place in which to expand.
“The Cow Shed premises are ideal. When they came on the market we jumped at the opportunity of taking them over.
“It means that we will be able to offer the people of Bath and visitors to this World Heritage site our unique service of classic British food with its emphasis on sausages.
“We have a great variety of them that feature on our menu regularly as well as some special ones from time to time, including at Christmas.”
Last year the restaurant served up more than 100,000 sausages and made 10 tonnes of mash by hand.”
Mr Quarrie said that he would be retaining all the staff now working at the Cow Shed and will retrain them to cook and serve the Clifton Sausage menu.
The menu features at least six variety of sausage every day such as Gloucester Old Spot; pork, cider and wholegrain mustard and Beef and Butcombe Ale. It also includes vegetarian sausages. All its sausages are served with mashed potatoes or champ (mash with spring onions).
The Cow Shed, which opened two years ago, is closing to allow owner Adam Denton to concentrate on his original restaurant on Whiteladies Road in Clifton.
