00:00We're just outside the Bristol Cheesemongers on Gloucester Road, which has soft lunch.
00:05Let's step inside to see what this new store has to offer.
00:08We've had a shop at Wapping Wharf for seven years now, and that's going great, and we
00:17just thought North Bristol needed more of the Bristol Cheesemongers, so we've just opened
00:22this one on Gloucester Road as well.
00:25Since Murray's, the butcher, that used to be here closed, they used to have a cheese
00:28counter, and then since they closed, we felt that Gloucester Road really could do with
00:35it.
00:36There isn't really a cheese offer here, but there's loads of other amazing food and drink
00:40related businesses on this stretch, and so we felt it slotted in nicely.
00:46And the other big thing is just the amount of space.
00:49So we've been running the wholesale, retail, and online out of two and a half shipping
00:56containers.
00:58It's grown to the point, especially on the wholesale, where it was kind of impractical.
01:04So this space will allow us to sort of grow into it a bit.
01:08We've got two floors here, so we'll be able to run that side of things upstairs.
01:11At the moment, it's 100% retail.
01:14Next week, the online and wholesale will move here, and hopefully next year we'll be building
01:19a small maturation room on site as well.
01:22It's been absolutely lovely.
01:23This is only day one, and it's a soft launch, so we didn't really announce that we were
01:27opening particularly, but the community's been so supportive.
01:33So people have been walking past.
01:36As soon as we got the sign up outside, people kept popping in, going, like, when are you
01:40going to be opening?
01:41We're so excited.
01:42Gloucester Road really needs a cheese monger.
01:44Even before that, people were asking, oh, what's it going to be?
01:48What's it going to be?
01:49And then local businesses have been the same, and all day today, we've just had people
01:53popping in and being excited about the soft opening.
01:56Yeah, it's been wonderful.
01:58What cheese would you recommend to customers that pop by to try?
02:03Oh, that is such a good question.
02:07We have been rotating things a little bit.
02:10We've brought everything in here.
02:11It's tasting really good at the moment.
02:13All of our cheeses come directly from the producer, and we work really closely with
02:18them.
02:19So really, we just grab the first thing that comes to hand.
02:22We've got some Merry Wife here, which has been tasting absolutely fantastic.
02:27So that's on the board.
02:29We've got the Western Cheddar.
02:31It's a local absolute classic.
02:34It's endless.
02:35It's endless.
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