23 cocktail bar places in Bristol we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Bristol | Cocktail Bar across every city.
The Apple ★ 4.5
Old City · Welsh Back, Bristol BS1 4SB
The Apple pours dozens of farmhouse ciders from a converted Dutch barge on Welsh Back, the floating heart of Bristol's cider drinking culture.
The Coronation Tap ★ 4.4
Clifton Village · 8 Sion Place, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4AX
The Coronation Tap is Clifton's centuries-old cider house near the Suspension Bridge, pouring its exclusive Exhibition cider by the half in Bristol.
The Milk Thistle ★ 4.5
Old City · Quay Head House, Colston Avenue, Bristol BS1 1EB
The Milk Thistle stacks four floors of hidden cocktail rooms behind an unmarked Colston Avenue door, Bristol's grand speakeasy with a whisky vault.
The Old Duke ★ 4.4
Old City · 45 King Street, Bristol BS1 4ER
The Old Duke runs free live jazz and blues every night of the week on King Street, a Bristol institution in a cobbled-street pub dating from around 1775.
The Beer Emporium ★ 4.2
Old City · 13-15 King Street, Bristol BS1 4EF
The Beer Emporium runs 32 keg and cask lines in vaulted cellars under King Street, the underground bar of Bristol's self-styled Beermuda Triangle.
The Gallimaufry ★ 4.2
Gloucester Road · 26-28 The Promenade, Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8AL
The Gallimaufry mixes bar, kitchen pop-ups and nightly free music on Gloucester Road, the all-purpose local of Bristol's longest independent street.
Grain Barge ★ 4.2
Hotwells · Mardyke Wharf, Hotwell Road, Bristol BS8 4RU
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.
The Highbury Vaults ★ 4.0
Kingsdown · 164 St Michael's Hill, Bristol BS2 8DE
The Highbury Vaults keeps a Victorian warren of snugs at the top of St Michael's Hill, the Kingsdown local where Bristol academics argue over ale.
The Volunteer Tavern ★ 4.1
Old Market · 9 New Street, Bristol BS2 9DX
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.
The Drapers Arms ★ 4.2
Gloucester Road · 447 Gloucester Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8TZ
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.
Snuffy Jack's Ale House ★ 4.1
Fishponds · 800 Fishponds Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3TE
Snuffy Jack's pours gravity-served casks in a Fishponds micropub named after a snuff-mill ghost, east Bristol's destination for proper quiet ale drinking.
The Mothers' Ruin ★ 3.9
Old City · 7-9 St Nicholas Street, Bristol BS1 1UE
The Mothers' Ruin is Bristol's beloved St Nicholas Street dive, a gin-named grotto of band stickers, late pints and impromptu gigs upstairs.
Filthy XIII ★ 4.2
Montpelier · 208 Cheltenham Road, Bristol BS6 5QU
Filthy XIII shakes award-listed cocktails behind a scruffy Cheltenham Road front, the Montpelier bar Bristol's bartenders drink at after shifts.
The Cider Box ★ 4.2
St Philips · Arch 5, Silverthorne Lane, Bristol BS2 0QD
The Cider Box ferments and pours craft cider under a railway arch on Silverthorne Lane in Bristol, the weekend-only taproom for the orchard-curious.
The Orchard Inn ★ 4.2
Harbourside · 12 Hanover Place, Bristol BS1 6XT
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.
The Beer Emporium ★ 4.2
Old City · 13-15 King Street, Bristol BS1 4EF
The Beer Emporium runs 32 keg and cask lines in vaulted cellars under King Street, the underground bar of Bristol's self-styled Beermuda Triangle.
The Milk Thistle ★ 4.5
Old City · Quay Head House, Colston Avenue, Bristol BS1 1EB
The Milk Thistle stacks four floors of hidden cocktail rooms behind an unmarked Colston Avenue door, Bristol's grand speakeasy with a whisky vault.
The Gallimaufry ★ 4.2
Gloucester Road · 26-28 The Promenade, Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8AL
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 Old Duke ★ 4.4
Old City · 45 King Street, Bristol BS1 4ER
The Old Duke runs free live jazz and blues every night of the week on King Street, a Bristol institution in a cobbled-street pub dating from around 1775.
The Orchard Inn ★ 4.2
Harbourside · 12 Hanover Place, Bristol BS1 6XT
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.
Snuffy Jack's Ale House ★ 4.1
Fishponds · 800 Fishponds Road, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3TE
Snuffy Jack's pours gravity-served casks in a Fishponds micropub named after a snuff-mill ghost, east Bristol's destination for proper quiet ale drinking.
The Volunteer Tavern ★ 4.1
Old Market · 9 New Street, Bristol BS2 9DX
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.
The Drapers Arms ★ 4.2
Gloucester Road · 447 Gloucester Road, Horfield, Bristol BS7 8TZ
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.