A POPULAR and relatively new bar has launched its new food menu, catering to those with eccentric palates and a taste for something new.

This Time, which opened on Devonshire Street in Carlisle back in June 2022, was marketed as a branch off of the restaurant In the Meantime, of which the owner also runs.

Offering a place to simply drink within the similar vibes of the popular restaurant, it performed well alongside other similar, but separate, upmarket watering holes on the street like Paradiso and Thin White Duke.

Customers dining at In the Meantime were encouraged to continue their night in the bar that was round the corner, and given a card that granted to user a 10 per cent discount on any drink.

But, as owner Matty Boak explained, it’s more common these days and in these temperatures to stick to one place, hence the addition of a new quirky food menu.

Matty explained: “If you’re at one place you’re not in the other, people don’t always want to be moving around the town.

“When the weather’s rubbish you just want to spend time in one place.”

Matty is proud of his bar’s new ‘quirky’ menu, which features easily devoured loaded fries ranging from poutine to jerk barbecue, zapiekankas – which are described as a Polish open-faced baguette style pizzas, of which there are four varieties, and street food ranging from smash burgers, choripan, and pork tacos.

The loaded fries cost £6 and £8 for a medium and large portion respectively, the zapiekankas cost between £10 and £10.50, and the street food ranges from £9 to £11.50.

Matty explained that the menu, launched last week, is the product of chef Andy King who used to work at In the Meantime, but has gone to This Time to come up with the menu.

Speaking on their presence within Carlisle’s hospitality sector, Matty said: “We’ve got quite a good name in In the Meantime and This Time, it’s still part of like the posh end of the city.

“It’s worked well, we’ve built it off the image of our other place.

“We’re lucky to have a great group of staff and a great manager, and it works for us,

“Fingers crossed things stay normal.”

This Time is open every day except Tuesday for food and drink.

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