Matina is a middle eastern budget eat in Old City, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Watch for the naan coming off the dome oven; the mixed grill wrap is the order the queue is for.
Address: Saint Nicholas Street, Bristol BS1 1LJ
Caribbean Wrap rolls jerk chicken and curry goat into lunch at St Nicholas Market, Bristol's quick daytime fix of the city's Caribbean kitchens.
Try: Jerk chicken wrap
Tip: Ask for extra scotch bonnet sauce only if you mean it; curried goat with rice beats the wrap on cold days.
Spice Up Your Life serves home-style curries from St Nicholas Market's Exchange Hall, the long-running budget curry counter of central Bristol.
Try: Curry plate with rice
Tip: The mixed curry plate with a little of everything is the order; portions defeat most first-timers.
Cafe Atlas slow-cooks tagines and pours fresh mint tea at St Nicholas Market, bringing Marrakech lunch plates and baklava to Bristol's Glass Arcade.
Try: Tagine with couscous
Tip: The tagine-and-couscous plate with baklava after is one of the market's best-value hot lunches.
Sandwich Sandwich stacks Bristol's most argued-over lunch on Baldwin Street, a family deli founded in 2012 that won Time Out's national Sammie Slam.
Try: Stacked deli sandwich
Tip: Queue before noon or after 14:00; the Queens Road shop runs the same boards for the university end of town.
Caribbean Wrap rolls jerk chicken and curry goat into lunch at St Nicholas Market, Bristol's quick daytime fix of the city's Caribbean kitchens.
Try: Jerk chicken wrap
Tip: Ask for extra scotch bonnet sauce only if you mean it; curried goat with rice beats the wrap on cold days.
Spice Up Your Life serves home-style curries from St Nicholas Market's Exchange Hall, the long-running budget curry counter of central Bristol.
Try: Curry plate with rice
Tip: The mixed curry plate with a little of everything is the order; portions defeat most first-timers.
Cafe Atlas slow-cooks tagines and pours fresh mint tea at St Nicholas Market, bringing Marrakech lunch plates and baklava to Bristol's Glass Arcade.
Try: Tagine with couscous
Tip: The tagine-and-couscous plate with baklava after is one of the market's best-value hot lunches.
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.
Try: Fried chicken meal
Tip: Ask for the signature spice mix on the fries; seven other Bristol branches cover most late routes home.
Sandwich Sandwich stacks Bristol's most argued-over lunch on Baldwin Street, a family deli founded in 2012 that won Time Out's national Sammie Slam.
Try: Stacked deli sandwich
Tip: Queue before noon or after 14:00; the Queens Road shop runs the same boards for the university end of town.
Taka Taka grills gyros and souvlaki on the Clifton Triangle until 04:00 or later, the Greek kebab counter that closes out student Bristol's nights.
Try: Gyros wrap
Tip: It is the honourable end to a Park Street night; the halloumi gyros converts even committed doner loyalists.
