The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Bristol's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Bristol.
Eat a Pitta's Glass Arcade counter at St Nicholas Market is Bristol's falafel institution, piling boxes with salads, hummus and pomegranate seeds.
Try: Falafel
Tip: The market queue moves fast but peaks 12:30 to 13:30; four other branches cover Clifton, Broadmead, Queens Road and Gloucester Road.
Squeezed flips national-award-winning burgers and homemade lemonades from two shipping containers at Cargo 1 on Wapping Wharf in central Bristol.
Try: Burgers
Tip: It moved from Cargo 2 into a bigger Cargo 1 unit; lunch sells through on football and market weekends.
Gurt Wings fries its multi-award-winning wings and cheese stix from a Cargo 2 container at Wapping Wharf, the food-truck success story of Bristol chicken.
Try: Award-winning fried wings and cheese stix
Tip: The name is Bristolian for very big, and portions agree; sauce flights make one box feed a bench.
Eatchu fries and steams handmade gyoza on Exchange Avenue at St Nicholas Market, Bristol's Great Taste-winning dumpling counter since its stall days.
Try: Handmade gyoza
Tip: The chicken and nori butter gyoza is the signature; the Clifton Triangle shop seats you down if the market is heaving.
Matina bakes naan to order and stuffs it with chargrilled lamb, chicken or halloumi, the queue that defines lunch at Bristol's St Nicholas Market.
Try: Chargrilled meat or halloumi in fresh-baked naan
Tip: Watch for the naan coming off the dome oven; the mixed grill wrap is the order the queue is for.
Portuguese Taste ladles feijoada and stacks pastel de nata in the Glass Arcade, St Nicholas Market's little corner of Lisbon in central Bristol.
Try: Pastel de nata and feijoada
Tip: Take the custard tarts to the harbour wall; the pork and bean stew sells out before the office crowd clears.
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 and mint tea
Tip: The tagine-and-couscous plate with baklava after is one of the market's best-value hot lunches.
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 and curry goat
Tip: Ask for extra scotch bonnet sauce only if you mean it; curried goat with rice beats the wrap on cold days.
Low and Slow smokes pulled pork and brisket for St Nicholas Market lunchboxes, Bristol barbecue counter cooking with a jackfruit option for herbivores.
Try: Pulled pork, brisket and jackfruit boxes
Tip: Brisket runs out first; the half-and-half box with both meats is the move before 13:00.
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: Home-style curry with rice and sides
Tip: The mixed curry plate with a little of everything is the order; portions defeat most first-timers.
Chilli Daddy numbs Bristol with Sichuan pepper at its Baldwin Street restaurant, noodle boxes and dandan noodles built on family recipes from Sichuan.
Try: Sichuan noodle boxes and dandan noodles
Tip: Order the dandan noodles at the heat level below your pride; Uber Eats delivery covers the nights you cannot face the walk.
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 and souvlaki into the small hours
Tip: It is the honourable end to a Park Street night; the halloumi gyros converts even committed doner loyalists.
The Athenian wraps flame-grilled souvlaki and gyros on Cargo 2's first floor at Wapping Wharf in Bristol, Greek street food grown from a 2014 market stall.
Try: Souvlaki wraps and gyros
Tip: The plant-based gyros holds its own against the pork; eat on the upper walkway facing the harbour cranes.
Loki Poke builds award-noted poke bowls in a Wapping Wharf container, Bristol's harbourside counter for sushi rice, pickles, poke and house-made sauces.
Try: Poke bowls on sushi rice
Tip: Go half-and-half on the house sauces; the container seats a handful, so take the bowl to the harbour edge.
Swoon churns Italian-schooled gelato at Wapping Wharf in Bristol with over 100 Great Taste awards, including a Supreme Champion nod for its hazelnut.
Try: Artisan gelato, over 100 Great Taste awards
Tip: The hazelnut won the Supreme Champion award; order it in a tub so harbour gulls cannot negotiate.