Eat in Old Market & Totterdown, Bristol

The Volunteer Tavern

• ★ 4.1
• Pub
• £

Drink A changing microbrewery cask in the walled garden

The Volunteer Tavern hides a 17th-century pub and walled beer garden off Old Market in Bristol, pouring small-brewery casks away from the traffic.

Wiper and True Taproom

• ★ 4.4
• Brewery
• ££

Wiper and True pours Kaleidoscope pale ale and its barrel experiments at a glass-walled Old Market taproom, Bristol brewing at its most polished and precise.

Lost and Grounded Brewers

• ★ 4.4
• Brewery
• ££

Lost and Grounded brews Bristol's benchmark lagers with German precision on Whitby Road, the brewery that made slow beer cool in a hop-mad city.

Little Martha Brewing

• ★ 4.0
• Brewery
• ££

Little Martha brews in a Totterdown railway arch on Oxford Street, a Bristol microbrewery taproom sharing its lane with the FCP roastery bar.

Beese's

• ★ 4.2
• British
• ££

Beese's pours drinks and cream teas on a wooded bank of the Avon in Bristol, a seasonal riverside institution best reached aboard its own little ferry.

Exchange

• ★ 4.1
• £

Exchange is Bristol's community-owned, not-for-profit music venue on Old Market Street, keeping punk, DIY and brand-new bands on its stage almost nightly.

The Phoenix

• ★ 4.1
• £

The Phoenix is an independent queer-owned pub on Champion Square, Bristol, mixing Sunday roasts, a big garden and its monthly DTYM club night.