Arnolfini Café/Bar
Reviewed by JS 2/09
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol , BS1 4QA - view map
The Arnolfini have teamed up with Barny Haughton (Bordeaux Quay), a leading light in the Bristol restaurant scene for more than 20 years, to run the Café Bar.
Restaurants and Cafes
Barley Wood Walled Garden
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The Walled Garden does great food; the staff are really friendly and helpful and will tell you everything about what you are eating (and even show you where it was grown).
Shop/café open daily 9am–4pm.
Café/restaurant open Friday & Saturday evenings 7–10pm.
01934 863713 for bookings.
Bordeaux Quay
Reviewed by JS updated 2/09
V Shed, Canon’s Road, Bristol, BS1 5LL - view map
Bordeaux Quay is not just a posh restaurant upstairs, and a cheaper brasserie upstairs, it is also a bar, deli, bakery and cookery school.
Boston Tea Party
Reviewed by JS 2/09
75 Park Street, Bristol , BS1 5PF - view map
A small chain of seven family-run cafés based in the West Country.
Café Midnimo
Reviewed by JS 2/09
163 Ashley Road, St Paul’s, Bristol, BS6 5NX - view map
The Midnimo Centre is run by the Somalian community and serves as a multi-cultural meeting place. Midnimo means ‘unity’ which is the ethos for the centre, bringing together different cultures in the community.
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
Chandos Deli
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Chandos Deli, which has branches in Clifton, Henleaze, and the centre, sells wonderful locally roasted Brian Wogan coffee, sandwiches made with local cheeses and hams, and a great range of own-made cakes – the chocolate brownies are especially good, and so are the savoury lunch-sized tarts. Their packaging is low on plastic and often consists of paper bags.
Folk House Café
Reviewed by CH 6/06 updated JS 2/09
40a Park Street, Bristol, BS1 5JG - view map
The Folk House Café serves a range of hot meals and cold snacks, with the following assurance: ‘At the Folk House Café you can be sure that your food has travelled as little as possible, is produced using sustainable farming practices and gives a fair deal to suppliers.’
Joe Publics
Reviewed by JM
Beacon House, 3 Queens Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1QU - view map
Excellent live music venue serving local food.
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.
Pieminister
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All ingredients for their handmade pies are sourced from the West Country, with the exception of the lemon grass. Only free-range eggs are used in the pastry, and the company has a full traceability policy for all of their ingredients.
Pump House
Reviewed by JS 2/09
Merchants Road, Hotwells, Bristol, BS8 4PZ - view map
The Pump House has been transformed from a fairly nondescript pub into a top-notch restaurant. A lot of local sourcing, and clear labelling on the menu, plus interesting wild/foraged ingredients.
Robusto Cafe Bar
Reviewed by JM 24/5/07
522 Filton Avenue, Bristol, BS7 0QE - view map
ROBUSTO Cafe Bar is located on Filton Avenue. They do great burgers, salads and a wide range of teas and coffees. Sundays is Open Mic which a lot of students go to.
Taste
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A mini farmers’ market comprising: deli, butcher, fishmonger, café and restaurant. British seafood, local organically-reared beef, poultry and fresh Mendip lamb. British cheeses, local eggs, fresh organic bread and other staples.
The Canteen
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The Canteen, the new café on the ground floor of Hamilton House combines a warm and lively atmosphere with good food and drink that is also good value for money. There is a rotating menu of main dishes (usually for around £5) made of ‘locally sourced and organic food where possible’ and soup and bread comes with the meal. The meals consist of main dish plus filling healthy sides of salad and veg, and there are vegetarian options as well as carnivorous. I have only been there for dinner so I can’t speak to the lunch menu or offerings, but I don’t imagine there is a great deal of difference in the quality or the price. There is a full bar that serves local beers and wines.
Tobacco Factory café/bar
Reviewed by JS 8/08 updated 2/09
Raleigh Road, Southville, Bristol, BS3 1TF - view map
The Tobacco Factory café always tries to use local suppliers and some organic ingredients where possible. An important part of their philosophy is to support independent businesses that give variety and character to an area, and keep money circulating locally – the ‘Strike a light for Independents’ campaign.
Watershed Café/Bar
Reviewed by JS 2/09
1 Canon’s Road, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5TX - view map
The Watershed menu has been ‘localised’ by Phil Haughton (Better Food Company). The food is now as organic, seasonal, locally sourced and ethically produced as the Watershed can possibly make it.
Windmill Hill City Farm shop & café
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All the vegetables in the shop are organic and grown on the City Farm’s allotments. The shop also sells eggs laid at the City Farm, and pork, lamb and beef from animals raised on-site or at the City Farm’s sister ‘real’ farm Ash Grove, near Wedmore.
Zazu’s Kitchen
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Zazu’s Kitchen is a delightful homely restaurant set in the centre of Bristol’s most diverse arts scene. The clean colours and bright open kitchen set off the country farmhouse theme with the fresh locally sourced vegetables and home-cooked food strewn seductively across the counter. The intimate space in the evening sits in dappled candlelight and offers a beautiful range of fresh organic foods. Zazu’s Kitchen is a place of peacefulness in a busy and thriving community with a hugely varied clientele popping in and out like a busy home.
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