Spice Up Your Life is a street-food stop in Old City, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: The mixed curry plate with a little of everything is the order; portions defeat most first-timers.
Address: Exchange Hall, St Nicholas Market, Bristol BS1 1JQ
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.
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.
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.
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.
