Shearer's Pie is on the menu at The Blackbird in Ponteland.placeholder image
Shearer's Pie is on the menu at The Blackbird in Ponteland.
A hat-trick of North East businesses have joined forces to create a dish designed to score with pie fans.
Heaton-based Anarchy Brewery and artisan bakery Great Northern Provisions are the team behind Shearer’s Pie – named after Newcastle United’s record scorer.
And it has now joined the menu at the multi-award-winning The Blackbird in Ponteland, in time for National Pie Week, which runs from March 2-8.
Steak and ale pie has long been a staple of the menu at the pub – which also serves Anarchy’s Shearer’s Foundation Brew, known as Shearer’s Beer, on draught.
The Blackbird, Ponteland.placeholder image
The Blackbird, Ponteland.
The beer is specifically brewed by Anarchy Brewery to raise funds for the Alan Shearer Centre in Newcastle and Anarchy makes a donation to The Shearer Foundation from every can and pint sold.
And it proved so popular with beer lovers at The Blackbird that pub bosses decided to see if it could be used in their pies.
They approached Gateshead-based Great Northern Provisions, which specialises in hand made pies and savoury bakes, and they swung into action.
“We wanted to create a pie that would honour the great man it’s named after – and we are very proud of it,” said chef and owner Chris Eagle.
The pie, served with new potatoes, seasonal vegetables and gravy, is now a permanent fixture on the menu priced at £17.95.
General manager, Mark Thompson, said: “It’s a great addition to the menu and we can’t thank the teams at Anarchy Brewery and Great Northern Provisions enough. It really is a fantastic pie.”
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