The Athenian is a street-food stop in Wapping Wharf, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: The plant-based gyros holds its own against the pork; eat on the upper walkway facing the harbour cranes.
Address: Unit 16, Cargo 2, Wapping Wharf, Bristol BS1 6WD
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.
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.
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.
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.
