Businesses within businesses are the new fashion in Bristol. La Dame Gateau recently opened within No. 1 Harbourside, while recently opened on Park Street in the window of the Elbow Rooms is Bagel Boy, serving bagels “stuffed with delicious, hearty fillings to keep your taste buds a tingling all day long”.
It’s another food businesses within an established bar, and like La Dame Gateau, one that also sets up shop during the day before melting away in the late afternoon so the Elbow Rooms can return to its primary function of being a bar cum pool room.
Bristol’s only other specifically bagel emporium is Lily B’s in Broadmead, so Bagel Boy owners Mitchell Church and Leo Thompson have spotted a gap in the market for the American favourite that is gaining in popularity in the UK.
Their speciality is a salt beef bagel “on top of a seasonal variety of meaty and veggie delights”, and yesterday afternoon when I visited they were doing a brisk trade.
A current special offer sees a fiver get you a bagel, crisps and drink, in a business within a business that is offering something new to Park Street’s busy and often rushed lunchtime crowd.
Bagel Boy, Elbow Rooms, 64 Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JN
