Want to find the best restaurants in Bristol? We’ve scoured the city’s food scene to find amazing dishes, delicious deals and the hottest pop-ups, plus cute cafés and food festivals. Oh, and don’t forget the drinks either – we cover cocktail bars, hidden speakeasies, and relaxed taprooms too! You’re sure to find somewhere fabulous with our guide to eating and drinking in Bristol.
Humans have a unique habit of looking at an empty building and thinking: ‘This would make a wonderful place to eat.’ From cafes inside of an old toilet or Robert of Gloucester’s atrium to restaurants in an old bank vaul...
Ask your parents about The Granary on Welsh Back. Chances are their eyes will glaze over with fond memories from this legendary venue in Bristol. Starting life as a jazz club in 1968, it quickly became an all-rock music...
Brunch is the perfect meal on a hangover. Mainly because you can basically wake up anytime (well, sometime between 8am and 4pm) and tuck into anything from shakshuka to avocado on toast, a full English or Turkish eggs,...
The Glassboat didn’t start life as a social hub. It was actually a working barge in the 1920s (making it roughly 100 years old!), but became one of Bristol’s most beloved dining spots during the ‘80s. Situated on the id...
Bristol is blessed with some pretty lovely , not least of all is - which was opened by the team behind Tare only 10 months ago. Offering natural, low-intervention wines and a selection of small plates, it won our heart...
We love a good , almost as much as we love wine. Bristol’s wine bars bring a certain sophistication to the scene that sheds all the snobbery often associated with wine too. No one is about to laugh you out of the buildi...
Reinventions aren’t easy. I once went into school asking everyone to ‘call me Chaz from now on’. It did not go down well. But The Pony & Trap in Chew Magna, now known as The Pony Chew Valley, has done what I failed...
We love it when a place ‘does exactly what it says on the tin’. Few restaurants fulfil this notion more than Rice & Things in Stokes Croft, which serves, well, rice and things. Specifically authentic Jamaican things...
If the success of last month’s Bristol Coffee Festival is anything to go by, then the city is full of coffee enthusiasts. But there’s plenty of room for more as Origin Coffee has launched its first Bristol cafe in Redcl...
The pandemic claimed too many great businesses. One of which was Pata Negra, a much-loved Spanish tapas restaurant from the Clifton-based speakeasy, . Opened in 2015, it was the go-to place for authentic Spanish tapas i...