The Mothers' Ruin
The Mothers' Ruin is the Old City's proudest dive bar, gin by name and band stickers by decor, with gigs upstairs and late Bristol pints down below.
3 late-night dives in Bristol our editors have drunk at, sorted by score. All Bristol nightlife.
Where to go: late-night dives
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The Love Inn
The Love Inn keeps Stokes Croft dancing until 04:00 at weekends, Team Love's tin-signed Bristol local with a serious soundsystem and free early entry.
The Beer Emporium
The Beer Emporium's cellars pour until 03:00 most nights, the late-shift refuge of Bristol's King Street with Pepenero pizza flying out past midnight.
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