by ben@ben-smith.net | Dec 31, 2016 | Uncategorised
Where’d the year go 2016 has been quite a year but we’re not talking politics or those who’ve said their goodbyes. A best nine won’t do ours justice so here’s a top 25 of what’s happened. We started the year focused on mobile events. February Meg’s...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorised
Hello, I suppose we should introduce ourselves, we’re Bertha’s Pizza, Graham, Kate & Meg, do say hi if you see us about. I guess you’re wondering what’s happening to this beautiful building – we’re proud to say it’s becoming our home. Our journey started 6...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Apr 11, 2016 | Uncategorised
Text as published in Hiut Denim’s yearbook number three. Illustration by Bjorn Lie “There’s a shop around the corner, go buy some flour, knock up another batch, you’ll clean up.”It was 1pm and we’d just sold out. The weather forecast took a u-turn for the...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Mar 7, 2016 | Uncategorised
Q&A with with Daniel Young of Young & Foodish, Daniel asks the questions and I get carried away with the answers. How did Bertha’s get started? Bertha’s what we christened our first oven, a Sheffield Steel, brick lined Garden Oven where we began the...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jan 4, 2016 | Uncategorised
Things are getting serious …we’re having t-shirts made.We’ve resisted thus far, the aprons Kate crafted have sufficed as uniform, but we’re stepping up a level in 2016. This is the year our crazy dream of a neighbourhood pizzeria becomes a reality. New...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Sep 24, 2015 | Uncategorised
Previously shackled to a keyboard. We’ve written about our past before, in fact it’s on the front page of our website – we were looking for a change of direction, a route out of London, a vocation not a chore. We sat there sharing the food we’d cooked with...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Aug 13, 2015 | Uncategorised
Time from Stick in Mind. Meet Harris, keeper of the dough secrets That’s Harris above. I’m sat in a Shoreditch coffee shop writing this newsletter, a flat white sipping cliché.The caffeine’s required though, there’s a lot to catch up on. Our last...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorised
I have no regrets in life. That’s a lie, I bloody hate these sandbags. At a generous estimate they’re 30% reconstituted with Gaffa tape, that’s on the rise, I’ve owned colanders with fewer holes. We bought these before our first mobile event, one of the many last...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jul 13, 2015 | Uncategorised
More of a vlog than a blog. Time – 90s of yours and a snapshot of how we spend ours. Water, flour, salt, our secret ingredient and why it matters. From the creative StickInMind goblins time from Stick in Mind on Vimeo.
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
We had a lovely chat with Bristol based food blogger With Mustard, she asked the questions, we did our best to answer them, for plenty more on cooking and eating in Bristol and beyond we’d wholeheartedly recommend her site. Bertha’s Pizza -Roving, Bristol...
