Eat in Gloucester Road & Bishopston, Bristol

Hobbs House Bakery

• ★ 4.1
• Bakery
• ££

Hobbs House brings a fifth-generation Cotswolds family bakery to Gloucester Road, selling its century-honed breads and cakes with Extract coffee.

Joe's Bakery

• ★ 4.1
• Bakery
• £

Order The 50-year-recipe carrot cake, baked on site since the 1980s

Joe's Bakery has baked on Gloucester Road for generations, a Bristol shop tracing its site's history over 150 years from tin loaves to sourdough.

Parsons Bakery

• ★ 3.5
• Bakery
• £

Order A hot pasty and an iced bun for pocket money prices

Parsons is Bristol's own everyday bakery chain, hand-baking rolls, pasties and iced buns; the Gloucester Road shop feeds the indie mile cheaply.

Grape & Grind

• ★ 4.0
• Wine bar
• ££

Grape & Grind stocks Gloucester Road's deepest shelf of wine, craft beer and coffee in Bristol, running regular in-shop tastings and a monthly wine club.

The Gallimaufry

• ★ 4.2
• Bar and music venue
• ££

Drink A negroni during the free evening gig

The Gallimaufry mixes bar, kitchen pop-ups and nightly free music on Gloucester Road, the all-purpose local of Bristol's longest independent street.

The Drapers Arms

• ★ 4.2
• Micropub
• £

Drink Gravity-poured cask ale, no lager, no music

The Drapers Arms is Bristol's first micropub, a one-room former draper's shop on Gloucester Road serving cask ale and conversation, nothing else.

Miss Millie's Fried Chicken

• ★ 3.6
• Fried chicken
• £

Try Fried chicken meal

Miss Millie's is Bristol's own fried chicken chain, serving since 1998, and its Gloucester Road shop keeps frying to 03:00 weekends for the night-bus crowd.