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Favourite restaurant in Bristol.

I had a reasonable pub meal in the Hole in the Wall just off Queen Sq. They serve Timothy Taylor's Landlord, lovely stuff. Bit of grass to sit out on as well. Service is apparently a bit hit-and-miss.

Second the Beijing Bistro, cheap, easy and decent enough food.

There is also some gourmet burger place near there which was a bit poncey and the burger too big to get in my mouth.

That, outside of Nando's, is pretty much my whole experience of dining in Brizzle.


As an aside, I drove through Clifton last week, up from the Long Ashton side - there used to be a really cheap cafe not far from the student union, but where I remember it being there's just a big hole in the ground. Has it gone, or was I looking in the wrong place?
 
I had a reasonable pub meal in the Hole in the Wall just off Queen Sq. They serve Timothy Taylor's Landlord, lovely stuff. Bit of grass to sit out on as well. Service is apparently a bit hit-and-miss.

Second the Beijing Bistro, cheap, easy and decent enough food.

That, outside of Nando's, is pretty much my whole experience of dining in Brizzle.


As an aside, I drove through Clifton last week, up from the Long Ashton side - there used to be a really cheap cafe not far from the student union, but where I remember it being there's just a big hole in the ground. Has it gone, or was I looking in the wrong place?


are you talking about the york cafe? opposite the lansdown pub?

bejing bistro is nice and cheap but it's more lunchy imo.

hole in the wall is MUCH nicer since they gave it a rehaul, had a lovely steak there.

it's still more of a pub than a restaruant though.
 
are you talking about the york cafe? opposite the lansdown pub?

bejing bistro is nice and cheap but it's more lunchy imo.

hole in the wall is MUCH nicer since they gave it a rehaul, had a lovely steak there.

it's still more of a pub than a restaruant though.

It could be the York, the name rings a bell - was it on a corner, selling sweaty fry-ups to students? I'm not sure where the Lansdown pub is. If you went up to Clifton from the triangle, and turned down a side street on the left as soon as you hit the square, you would (or at least I expected to) see it on your left.

I'd agree about the Beijing Bistro, if anything you're in and out too quickly. Good for a quick bite on a night out, not so good for a sit down and conversation.
 
It could be the York, the name rings a bell - was it on a corner, selling sweaty fry-ups to students? I'm not sure where the Lansdown pub is. If you went up to Clifton from the triangle, and turned down a side street on the left as soon as you hit the square, you would (or at least I expected to) see it on your left.

That was the York Cafe, it's moved to Broadmead now. I used to go there a lot when I worked in Clifton but it's nowhere near as good now, it's too small, their menu is very limited and their sausages taste like sawdust - at least they did when it first opened but it got slated for them in the Evening Post so they might have improved since.

I must have dreamt it about Pizza Provencale being closed, I've been having some weird dreams recently.
 
ooh, ooh, ooh, just remembered! There's a new 'soul food' cafe down the bottom of Regents Street in Clifton, down the road from The Clifton the pub and kinda opposite where saville place comes out.

It's based on american deep south cooking, and serves all manner of stuff, catfish, gumbo, jambalaya, and it's very good. They stuff you with food there too, and it's very reasonable. Sure it'll change in a while to charge more and be more clifton, but at the moment it's wicked if you fancy trying some new things and rolling home pleasantly stuffed for not absolutely tons of cash.

Went to bejing bistro again tonight as it happens, had some niggles with misunderstood orders and them bringing out the wrong things initially, but tenner each for starter, main and wine not to be sniffed at at all!
 
i went to wagamamas on the triangle tonight and ordered the veggie curry with breaded sweet potato and aubergine... all was going well until i bit into one of the breaded items on my plate and rather than sweet potato it tasted distinctly fishy... turned out they'd put a fishcake on my plate when i'm vegetarian... sent it back and got my meal free but i doubt i'll be going back there
 
i went to wagamamas on the triangle tonight and ordered the veggie curry with breaded sweet potato and aubergine... all was going well until i bit into one of the breaded items on my plate and rather than sweet potato it tasted distinctly fishy... turned out they'd put a fishcake on my plate when i'm vegetarian... sent it back and got my meal free but i doubt i'll be going back there

since when have you been veggie?
 
Only took one visit for us to vow never to go back to wagamama's on the triangle, service and food quality were both beyond a joke.
 
Don't think all that much of Plantation - about 2 doors down from me.

Dynasty I've only been on karaoke nite near Xmas - Worst Night Ever.

Thali Cafe for me. Or the Juniper in Cotham. Never been to Cozinha, but it looks good.
 
Was it called something else before Juniper? I remember going to a vegetarian restaurant in Cotham once, not sure if that was the one.
 
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