The Milk Thistle
- ★ 4.5
- £££
- Old City & St Nicholas Market
The Milk Thistle hides four floors of carved-wood cocktail rooms behind an unmarked door on Colston Avenue, the grand flagship speakeasy of central Bristol.
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