18/09/2026
For those asking about what the plan is opening weekend at our new site The Pilot Inn
🚨 SOFT LAUNCH WEEKEND🚨
Following the announcement earlier in the week, we officially get the keys Tuesday and, providing there are no setbacks, we’re planning to open the doors for DRINKS ONLY on Friday 25th September from 3pm. 🍻
The kitchen will follow the week after. Once the kitchen is ready to go, chefs happy with their new kitchen, we’ll initially be serving a simple menu while we get everything up and running. As you can appreciate it doesn’t leave us much time to get everything set up to open!
For this weekend though we will have both Grumpy Grandpa Durty Burgers & Gurt Wings (see times and dates below) serving in a food truck out the front!
Quizzes, Live Music and other events will then follow over the coming weeks as we recruit, train and build our new team. There will be a few faces we have retained as well!
We’re not going to pretend the first few weeks will be completely seamless. There’ll be a new team, new management, new systems and plenty for us to learn and get right as we go.
So if you visit us at The Pilot in those early weeks, please bear with us!
Pardon the pun… but we really don’t want the Pilot to have a bumpy flight! 😂✈️
There’s also a bit of personal history here for us. Both Mary and Shaun lived in Quedgeley for a number of years — and we still own our home here — so we know just how important The Pilot is to the local community.
We’re incredibly excited about what we can do with the pub and, most importantly, we want to make it a place the local community is proud to call their own.
This is the start of a very exciting new chapter for us — and we’d love you to come along for the ride. ❤️
I’ve tried to reply to as many questions as possible over the last few days so plan to follow up with a FAQ video before we open. So if you’ve got any questions or concerns, stick them in the comments below! 👇
