Cafe Delight
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Serving a variety of sandwiches, snacks and beverages, hot meals and breakfasts. A takeaway option is also available. The provenance of their food is local/organic.
Monday–Saturday 9am–5pm
Sunday 10am–3.30pm
Gloucester Road
Dave Giles Butcher
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170 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8NU - view map
Here is a butcher that takes the time to serve you and answer your questions – Dave Giles has been around for 16 years and 80% of his products are locally sourced, both organic and non-organic.
Gardener’s Patch
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159 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8BA - view map
Gloucester Road suffers a good deal of traffic, and so the Gardener’s patch is well situated for trade and mermerising flashing light by the zebra crossing.
Harvest Natural Foods
Reviewed by JP 4/4/06
11 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8AA - view map
At the back of the shop there are a few steps which lead up to the weigh-it-on-your-own dry goods section. The steps separate a wooden herringbone from pale linoleum, and both parts of the shop are lit starkly by translucent squares in the suspended ceiling. Even with the faint reggae soundtrack, there’s rather a feeling of being in a hospital corridor.
La Ruca
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89 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8AS - view map
Some wholefoods shops seem to contain all the things you want, and others lean more towards things to which you’re almost entirely indifferent. Here, we find Duchy Originals Marmalade, made in Somerset, which is exactly what breakfast asks of us. And there is the Lyme Regis Dark Chocolate Marzipan – once discovered, never forgotten.
Murray’s
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Behind the aerosol cityscape of Bristol lie words we like to hear: ‘if it’s able to be sourced locally, it is. We pay a fair price to the farmer for a quality product which we sell at a fair price. People want more fat on their chops so that’s what we give them.’ Sounds like a mantra for ethical butchery.
Scoopaway
Reviewed by JP 4/4/06
113 Gloucester Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8AT - view map
Scoopaway is good, clean, scoop action in clear acrylic with no pretension. Gold Hits are on the radio, and it’s lino on the floor. There’s a good selection of local jars here: honey, notably, from Gloucestershire and Avon, plus an all-you-could-ever-want selection of preserves from Keynsham: Lemon Curd, Tartare Sauce, Horseradish… There are the Pertwood Farm cereals from Wiltshire, Welsh Eggs, the Somerset Dairy, and Bean Sprouts from Hereford.
The Real Olive Company
Reviewed by JS 2/09
St Nicholas Market, The Glass Arcade, Bristol, BS1 1LJ - view map
While a lot of the Real Olive Company stock cannot by its nature be locally-sourced, the company has set up the Real Artisan Bakery to supply bread to its shops.
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