private founded 1909 founder mary clark headquarters grangetown cardiff wales key people dennis beverly and amanda clark products pies website www.clarkspies.co.uk clark s pies also colloquially nicknamed clarkies or clarksies are well known meat pies that originated in cardiff and can now be found in south wales and the west of england . contents 1 history 2 recipe 3 consuming the pie 4 clark s pie quotes 5 references 6 external links history edit the clark s pies shop in bromsgrove street a printed paper bag from the 1930s states that the business was established in 1909 . 1 a shop opened on llanmaes street in roath cardiff in 1913 . developed by mary clark a second shop opened on cowbridge road east in nearby canton in the 1930s . during world war ii the first shop was closed due to wartime meat rationing . dennis dutch mary clark s grandson opened the third pie shop and bakery on 10 may 1955 in bromsgrove street grangetown . in 2005 dutch celebrated the shop s 50th anniversary . in the late 1920s harold harry percy clark left his mother mary to branch out on his own establishing a shop in north street bedminster bristol where he built his own business . the shop passed to percy s sons john ken and roger clark who have all since retired . roger s daughter dawn clark continues the family tradition as a director of the business which is now located at haymarket walk near the st. james barton roundabout in central bristol . recipe edit the clark s pie the exact recipe of the pie filling is a closely guarded secret containing beef vegetables and gravy . unusually for a pie the pastry is thick enough not to require a foil tray . each pie has the word clarpie stamped into the pastry . consuming the pie edit knives and forks are not required ; the pastry is thick enough to pick up and eat in the upright position without crumbling or getting soggy . microwaving the pie will negate these qualities making the pie pastry soft . a clark s tashis the nickname given to burning the upper lip with the hot filling . clark s pie quotes edit frank hennessy 2 i can t remember not having a clark s pie . as soon as cardiffians saw the millennium stadium they fell in love with it . they didn t realise why . it s like a giant clark s pie with four cocktail sticks in it . ian holloway former bristol rovers player manager erroneously claims the pie to be a bristol invention 3 there s some great things that have come out of bristol clark s pies a couple of football teams ... . not sure about me though references edit clark s pies our history . clarkspies.co.uk . retrieved 2016 04 02 . walesonline news sport weather and events from across wales . icwales.icnetwork.co.uk . retrieved 2016 04 02 . bbc sport football holloway column . bbc news . 2008 02 22 . retrieved 2016 04 02 . external links edit official website clarks pies bristol website secret of clark s success kept under the pie lid the western mail bbc south wales east food photo gallery of the clark s pies 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