The Michelin Guide for Great Britain & Ireland 2025 is out, and Bristol has much to celebrate. The city not only added three Bib Gourmands for its great value dining, but it now has another Michelin Star—bringing the total number of Michelin-starred restaurants in Bristol to two. A Star is awarded to restaurants that use top-quality ingredients and prepare dishes with distinct flavours to a consistently high standard:
1. Bulrush
Bulrush is well-known for blending Anglo-French cuisine with Japanese and Scandinavian influences. There’s also a large focus on locally sourced and foraged ingredients while preserving and pickling also play a key role. Just some of the dishes you’ll find at this cosy Cotham neighbourhood restaurant include Jerusalem artichoke chawanmushi, duck liver macaron; and roast fallow deer, hen of the woods, black pudding Danish. It’s also one of the UK’s cheapest Michelin-star restaurants – Bulrush’s tasting menu is £90 and an extra £70 for accompanying wines
MICHELIN Guide says: “It might appear quite modest, but this neighbourhood restaurant is a sweet spot, with an appealingly relaxed, cosy feel; sit downstairs to soak up the atmosphere from the on-view kitchen. Top-notch seasonal ingredients are either foraged or organic, and preserving and pickling play a key role on the imaginative, well-balanced and deftly prepared tasting menu. Combinations are original and provide plenty of contrasts and flavours are clear and natural, with the occasional Japanese influence. The astutely chosen wine flight creates the perfect partnership.”
Bulrush, 21 Cotham Rd S, Cotham, Bristol BS6 5TZ
2. Wilson’s
Sustainability has long been at the heart of Wilson’s’ ethos, but a MICHELIN Green Star for its output was never going to do it enough justice. The farm-to-table restaurant from Jan Ostle and Mary Wilson, which opened in 2016, serves an eight-course dinner menu using produce from its own garden. Right now, rhubarb is all over the menu in winter, in dishes such as Mallard with rhubarb, beetroot and plum hoisin, while homegrown Celeriac is slowly roasted and served with locally caught Monkfish, onion and fig leaf.
MICHELIN Guide says: “There is so much to enjoy, and so much to admire, when dining at Wilsons. It’s one of those appealing neighbourhood operations that works in pure harmony, with everyone from the chefs to the service team sharing the same ethos. Sustainability and careful sourcing of superb ingredients are at the forefront, with the restaurant’s own smallholding providing much of the produce on the tasting menu of expertly crafted dishes. Each one is exquisitely balanced and full of understated originality, like dry-aged trout with pickled mushrooms and sweet onion broth.”
Wilson’s, 24 Chandos Road, Bristol, BS6 6PF