Sheffield restaurants: Popular city centre restaurant Pieminster closes suddenly after seven years
A popular Sheffield restaurant has closed just as the festive season gets into full swing.
Pieminster on Division Street is in darkness, with all the chairs up on tables. Its Google listing states it is ‘permanently closed’.
The venue opened in 2018 and it had a four-star rating on Tripadvisor, out of 185 votes.
Pieminster launched in Bristol in 2003. Its website states it has eight restaurants across the country.
In 20023, Pieminster added a new ‘gravy fondue’ to its menu – after a video of the idea went viral.
It floated the idea on social media and saw over a million people take a look at the video of their idea for a pot of gravy that people could share and dip things in.
The new item consisted of thick gravy in a hot pot, surrounded by a choice of dippers including pigs in blankets, parsnip and kale fritters, onions rings, and halloumi chips. The gravy is plant based and gluten free.
Jon Simon, Pieminister founder and managing director, said: “We’ve been experimenting with all sorts of potentially dippable delicacies and we’ve found that some things that seem so wrong to dip in gravy, turn out to be so right – take the halloumi chips for example. Or our free range British pork scratchings! One of the qualities of our gravy is its velvety consistency, so you get a really decent coating on whatever you plunge into the pot”