Order Whatever the kitchen does with hispi cabbage that week, plus one fish plate.
Root cooks vegetable-first small plates from a shipping container at Wapping Wharf, Bristol, and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide.
Order A sharing cut cooked over the coals, with bone marrow mash on the side.
Pasture grills 35-day dry-aged West Country beef over live fire opposite St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, the flagship of a growing steak group.
Order The full tasting menu; pescatarian and vegetarian versions are catered for.
Adelina Yard puts Jamie Randall and Olivia Barry's tasting menus on Welsh Back by Bristol Bridge, a Michelin Selected room since the 2026 guide.
Order The kitchen table if you can get it: two seats facing the stove.
Box-E squeezes a Bib Gourmand kitchen into one shipping container on Bristol's Wapping Wharf, with Tess and Elliott Lidstone cooking for a handful of tables.
Order The signature monkfish and sobrasada Valencian rice, with gambas pil pil to start.
Gambas cooks seafood-first Spanish tapas above the harbour at Wapping Wharf in Bristol, a Valencia-inspired sister venue to Cotham Hill's Bravas.
Viator · 3 h
Discover the story of Bristol harbour through the food and drink that was traded here over the course of nine hundred years on this unique food and history tour. We'l...
Entry ticket · 2 hours
Sip a garnished Bristol Dry Gin and tonic on arrival at St Nicholas Market, then taste five in-house seasonal gins. Learn the distillery's history, how botanicals are ...
Guided tour · 1.5 hours
Discover the art of natural winemaking and cider-making on a tour of an organic vineyard and cider farm near Bristol. Enjoy tastings of award-winning ciders and wines.
On this list, shown aboveAdelina YardRootBox-EPasture
Order Korean fried chicken with a yuzu highball; add sashimi if the counter is on.
Seven Lucky Gods runs all-day izakaya plates, sushi and highballs on the top deck of Cargo 2 at Wapping Wharf, Bristol, inspired by Tokyo's izakaya bars.
Order Three tacos and a frozen margarita at the open-kitchen counter.
Cargo Cantina is Wapping Wharf's Mexico City-style taco bar, rolling non-GM tortillas and frozen margaritas at a counter in a Bristol container.
Order Fish and chips on the terrace, with a view of the Matthew's masts.
Salt & Malt fries gluten-free fish and chips across five Cargo 2 containers on Bristol's harbourside, part of chef Josh Eggleton's Pony family.
Order The Mothership with the Moo pie, or Sunday Best when it is running.
Pieminister began in Bristol in 2003 and its Broad Quay restaurant plates the Mothership: pie, mash, gravy and minted peas facing the harbour.
Order House-blend flat white
Boston Tea Party's Park Street original is where the Bristol-born cafe chain began, still doing all-day brunch on the slope it calls the BTP OG.
Order Batch filter with a seasonal salad plate
Spicer+Cole runs four Bristol coffee-and-kitchen rooms; the Queen Square Avenue original pairs Extract-roasted coffee with super-fresh seasonal plates.
Order Espresso by day, craft beer and coffee cocktails by evening
Little Victories is the Small Street Espresso team's harbourside bar at Wapping Wharf, Bristol, pouring espresso, cakes and toasties beside Cargo's cranes.
Order Coffee on the terrace above the bike workshop
Mud Dock has stacked a cafe above a bike shop on Bristol's harbourside for over 30 years, serving brunch and harbour views from its top-floor terrace.
Order Flaked 72% dark hot chocolate
Mrs Potts melts real flaked chocolate into Bristol's best hot chocolate on Park Street, from a classic 58% cup to brownies, sundaes and monthly specials.
Order Pre-film coffee or a local ale upstairs
Watershed's first-floor cafe bar feeds Bristol's independent cinema crowd above the harbour inlet, all local beers, coffee and pre-screening plates.
Mokoko bakes pastries in full view at the foot of Gaol Ferry Steps, pairing an open bakery bench with single-estate coffees on Bristol's harbourside.
Hart's Bakery laminates and bakes everything inside a Victorian railway arch under Bristol Temple Meads, the send-off pastry stop before any train.
Order A box of macarons to eat on the harbour wall
Anna Cake Couture pipes macarons and hand-finished cakes from a Cargo container at Wapping Wharf, Bristol's patisserie counter on the harbour.
Also on this listHart's BakeryMokoko Coffee & Bakery
On this list, shown aboveLittle Victories
Drink Bristol Beer Factory ale opposite the SS Great Britain
Grain Barge floats Bristol Beer Factory's pub on a 1936 grain boat off Hotwell Road, with deck views straight across to the SS Great Britain.
Drink One of about 20 boxed farmhouse ciders
The Orchard Inn pours a wall of boxed farmhouse ciders in a Spike Island backstreet local, a few minutes from Bristol's SS Great Britain and its crowds.
Try Award-winning fried wings and cheese stix
Gurt Wings fries its multi-award-winning wings and cheese stix from a Cargo 2 container at Wapping Wharf, the food-truck success story of Bristol chicken.
Try Souvlaki wraps and gyros
The Athenian wraps flame-grilled souvlaki and gyros on Cargo 2's first floor at Wapping Wharf in Bristol, Greek street food grown from a 2014 market stall.
Try Poke bowls on sushi rice
Loki Poke builds award-noted poke bowls in a Wapping Wharf container, Bristol's harbourside counter for sushi rice, pickles, poke and house-made sauces.
Try Artisan gelato, over 100 Great Taste awards
Swoon churns Italian-schooled gelato at Wapping Wharf in Bristol with over 100 Great Taste awards, including a Supreme Champion nod for its hazelnut.
Also on this listSqueezed
Left Handed Giant's riverside brewpub brews upstairs and pours downstairs at Finzels Reach, the city-centre face of a Bristol brewery born in 2015.
Cargo stacks about 45 independents into converted shipping containers at Wapping Wharf, Bristol's harbourside village of counters, taprooms and kitchens.
The Cheese Connection curates South West and British artisan cheese from a Cargo 2 container, Bristol's harbourside cheesemonger with tasting events.
Clifton Seafood Company lands next-day South Coast fish at a Cargo 2 counter, the fishmonger arm of Bristol's harbourside container village.
The Bristol Christmas Market fills Broadmead from early November each winter with chalet stalls, festive street food and the Jager barn's mulled drinks.
On this list, shown abovePieministerSalt & Malt
Also on this listBoston Tea Party Park StreetSpicer+ColeMud Dock Cafe
Thekla stages gigs and club nights in the hold of a 1958 German cargo ship moored in Bristol's Mud Dock, an institution of a venue running since 1984.
The Fleece has hosted touring bands in a Grade II listed former wool hall since 1982, Bristol's classic sticky-floored 450-capacity rock room by Temple Meads.
The Louisiana books tomorrow's bands into a harbourside corner pub, the small Bristol room that hosted Amy Winehouse and Muse on their way up the bill.
Also on this listSeven Lucky Gods
