The Love Inn is a late-night dive bar in Stokes Croft, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Free entry runs to 22:00 most nights; the Team Love bookings outclass the bar's dive-bar looks.
Address: 84 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY
Lakota has carried Bristol rave culture since the early 1990s, its Stokes Croft warren of rooms now joined by the Moon Club and the open-air Gardens space.
Tip: The Gardens day events sell out fastest; the original rooms still deliver the sweaty jungle history lesson.
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.
Tip: Last orders land at 01:45; it is the sensible-drinks answer to the question of where to go after the pubs shut.
Motion turns a riverside skatepark-turned-warehouse complex into Bristol's biggest club, an internationally booked home of techno and drum and bass nights.
Tip: Buy tickets ahead through the club's own site; the Marble Factory next door handles the live shows.
Lakota has carried Bristol rave culture since the early 1990s, its Stokes Croft warren of rooms now joined by the Moon Club and the open-air Gardens space.
Tip: The Gardens day events sell out fastest; the original rooms still deliver the sweaty jungle history lesson.
Thekla stages gigs and club nights in the hold of a 1958 German cargo ship moored in Bristol's Mud Dock, an institution of a venue running since 1984.
Tip: Pressure on Thursdays and Pop Confessional on Saturdays are the student rites; check the hull for the Banksy grim reaper story.
Strange Brew mixes club nights, gigs and art shows in its Fairfax Street event space, the connoisseur's small room of central Bristol's night-time scene.
Tip: Its bookings lean leftfield; trust the venue's own programming even when you know none of the names.
The Old Duke runs free jazz and blues every single night of the week on King Street, Bristol's cornerstone jazz pub in a building dating from around 1775.
Tip: Sunday afternoon sessions are the gentle way in; weekend nights spill onto the cobbles.
