A SHIPLEY pub is set to mark its re-opening with regular weekend street food festival events.

The Ring O'Bells will celebrate the best of street food from across Yorkshire at its Bradford Road site, starting later this month.

The pub is hosting a calendar of street food pop-ups from local makers and vendors to the area this summer, starting with Mozzafella's pizzas on Sunday, May 23 between 1pm and 7pm.

It is re-opening its doors to customers at 3pm on Monday, May 17, after being forced to shut in October last year due to the lockdown restrictions and opting not to re-open last month.

Working with local makers, and street food vendors, the pub has curated an exciting variety of casual food pop-ups rolling out this summer, a different experience each time.

Celebrating the pub's 200th birthday and becoming the oldest pub in the area - the Ring O’ Bells has benefited from an interior and exterior refresh with an expansion of the beer garden.

The pub is now is set out to become a food event destination.

The chef consultant working with the pub to curate these events, Jade Crawley, resident chef at Eat Your Greens launched the menu for the opening of Copper and Moss of Saltaire earlier this year and is also creating a new contemporary Mediterranean vegetarian menu for Freddie's of Baildon, launching on May 17.

The cost per meal is targeted at £5 per portion, and each vendor is tried and tested by a chef consultant and each one is experienced on the street food scene, and will be reflecting the ethics of ethical yet accessible food. With many plant-based choices but also top quality meat options.

On Friday/Saturday/Sundays from 1pm till late evening, punters will have the opportunity to sample a globally inspired calendar of food such as Mozzafella of Baildons Neapolitan style stone baked pizzas, and Holy Mountain Kitchen of Leeds next level chicken wings, gourmet burgers and junk food gone mad.

Also on the calendar include Organic beef burgers from Eat Your Greens of Leeds, The Sri Lankan Experience, Kanassa Columbian-inspired street food, So Toasted 'Posh Toasties', with more names to be released soon via social media.

Holy Mountain will take up two weekend residencies on May 29 and June 13.

Kara Woodhouse-Kent, one of the Ring O'Bells owners, who took over the pub in January 2019 alongside manager Andrew Hardy, said: "It's exciting.

"We're ready and our customers are certainly ready.

"It's been hard in the sense that each time we have closed during the pandemic, we have had to reinvent ourselves.

It has taken a toll, having the business shut. But we have always stayed positive that we'd come back better than ever before

"We are keeping our fingers crossed that the trade is there, that people will come back.

"We want to host these weekends throughout the summer and beyond. We want to hold them in the winter and at Christmas too.

"It will be a regular weekend event for us.

"Jade has taken control of these weekends, we're hosting them. She has been organising it all.

"The pub will be celebrating its 200th birthday this year. It is the oldest pub in Shipley."

More information about each event to be released across The Ring O Bells social media pages.

The pub has Covid-safe capacity of 80 inside with up to 100 outdoor seats. Typical Saturday covers for the pub pre-covid were 250 with major annual events seeing crowds of up to 500.