The Bell On Mulnestrete

31/05/2026

A lovely piece. Thank you to the sentinel. ❤️

It looks great!

31/05/2026

There’s nothing more upsetting than the rain, damp and coldness after a wonderful spout of sunshine.

However we may have the remedy!

Our Sunday Roasts are served from 12 - 6:30 today. You won’t regret it!

28/05/2026

We’ve had our hands full all weekend.

Now they’re full once again…. WITH VODKA.

It’s always great when we can use what the UK has to offer so our small but bespoke range of flavoured vodka’s are all handpicked from this very little island.

Mango from
Blackberry from
Citrus from
Vanilla from
Toffee from
Rose (Raspberry, Peach & Pink Grapefruit from

Whatever your mixer of choice you’ve got to give these a try!

26/05/2026

Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflection without learning is dangerous.

Now the dust has settled, we at ‘The Bell’ are taking our time to reflect and see what we learnt from our opening weekend.

Firstly, we learned we need to rest so that we can get this place back up and running properly. So, today we will be closed and then back tomorrow from 3pm (moving forward we’ll always be open on Tuesdays).

We also learnt just how much budvar, strawberry gin and prosecco we’ll need in the future. You guys drank us dry.

We learned that our outside bar needs some serious work so we can offer the same great beverages indoors as we do outdoors to keep the drinks flowing for our lovely guest’s.

We also learnt about the dreaded shirt-off gate. (If you know, you know)

We’ve also learned we may need to buy a few more oysters, get a few more dog bowls and maybe look at our pricing on a few of our offerings.

Next, a very special mention is to learning just how fantastic our team were. We truly landed on our feet when hiring this team. We can honestly say that every single one of them was nothing short of marvellous.

We learned also how special our close friends and family are. We already loved them but now we love them even more. We had our mum collecting glasses with a broken arm, our dad jet washing in the early hours, our sister and her partner pouring pints and drinks without even being asked and our partners Rosie & Chelsea relentlessly working to bring our dream alive. We learnt the extent to how great our friendships are and must thank the boys at for bailing us out the trouble when beers were low and Daz for sorting our cellar when the teething issues were showing.

So much went well this weekend but, when reflecting on everything we did learn the most important lesson.

When you give to Congleton. Congleton gives back.

You came in your masses, you danced, you ate, you played (little one’s in our kids area) you drank and you reminded us why we wanted to build this pub in the town we love.

Thank you Congleton. We’ll see you again soon.

25/05/2026

We like keeping secrets. Though, one secret we can’t keep is how fantastic our opening weekend has been.

We thought we’d better let you in on one last secret we’ve probably keep quiet…..a little too long. Our Menu!

We’ve been busy tweaking and correcting and didn’t want to release it until it was 100% perfect.

Want to end your bank holiday on a high?

We’ll be serving in the dining room today from 12 - 6:30.

We’ll see you soon!

23/05/2026

So we finally did it.

Today is the big day.

You’ll find everything you need to know (including how to book into the dining room) on our website link (also on this post), but we thought we’d better let you know how our first opening weekend is looking.

Saturday - Dining Room officially open, drinks in the garden and live music from 9pm with Keaton Marrs.

Sunday - Our first day of what we think will be one of Congleton’s best Sunday Roasts (12-6:30) followed by late night drinks in the garden to see out the bank holiday.

Monday - Open for the bank holiday with our Dining Room serving from 12:00 to 18:30 with the Pub being open from 12 - 10.

Our snack menu will be live in both the pub and garden area so don’t miss out.

It’s going to be a big weekend to celebrate the end of what truly was ‘The Big Pub Project’.

https://www.thebellonmulnestrete.co.uk

17/05/2026

There’s a old wives tale that us Brits don’t know how to make good wine.

Well our friends at over in Staffordshire have well and truly ended that speculation.

Don’t believe us? Come find out.

In just 6 days we’ll be opening and you’ll find a full range off wines from Pattingham and around the world.

We’ll see you soon!

14/05/2026

Provenance and supporting British independant producers is going to be really important to us at The Bell.

So when looking at gins we looked no further than and could not wait to show it off once it arrived.

Want to sample some yourself?

Join us from midday onwards on the 23rd of May.

13/05/2026

All great projects come from great leadership.

When it came to building ‘The Bell’, Simon was at the heart of everything.

We would not be where we are today without him and if you want to bring your project to life no matter how big or small be sure to give him a call.

Cheers Si, this one’s for you. Not all heroes wear capes but they do drink Cruz and demand cups of tea 🍺 ☕️

06/05/2026

It’s time we told the world our biggest secret.

Who better to do it than a handful of the people who made it happen.



(special mention to Gradus as well)