Category: restaurant
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No. 4 Clifton Village, food review
The night we visited No. 4 Clifton Village couldn’t have been darker or wetter if we had come off a boat and landed in Alaska (in the dark). Compared to the horrible outside, the surroundings were softly lit and enticingly coloured all due to some recent refurbishing, apparently. Tapestry in rich red colours hung on…
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Breakfast at Wallfish Bistro in Clifton
Two days ago, I had some black-looking thick and ugly mushrooms on toast at River Cottage Cafe. They were most unpleasant to look at with the grimy streaks they left on my place and weren’t exactly exploding with flavour. A week before that I had been served the most beautiful looking girolles on toast served…
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A tasting menu at City Restaurant, City of Bristol College
My daughter has been to five tasting menus in her entire life of two years, if you include Bell’s Diner when she was still in utero, and the one at City restaurant was probably her favourite (and mine). The restaurant has the feel of a badly lit and greying office space appropriated for the night…
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Tasting menu at the Square Kitchen
Alert: Partly-free-meal disclaimer in the text; gratuitous picture of toddler and her dad As my 19-month-old daughter, Mersina, and her father, Martin, convened underneath our edge of the very long table at the Square I felt myself getting a little restless. It had taken one hour for our first two courses to arrive and we…
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La Tomatina, Park Street
With doors and windows opened just a few hours ago it would be cruel to offer a review of La Tomatina. This is more a preview of a new restaurant which offers tapas, coffee and drinks in the ideal location for summer overlooking College Green and situated at the beginning of Park Street. With windows…
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Za Za Bazaar, Harbourside
If you love Pizza Hut and Iceland then your luck is in. Za Za Bazaar opened about a month ago now and serves 997 people at a sitting. It is the place you can go to enjoy a family meal, a casual treat before going out or something else which puts an emphasis on ‘casual’.…
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La Riva, review
La Riva means the shore, in Italian, and I guess it’s a sign of its move from the east coast’s Weston Super Mare, Clacton. I’ve been trying to think of something interesting to go along with that fact, something about the non-shore like location of Park St, being opposite Jamie’s Italian perhaps, replacing Beijing Bistro…
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Zazu’s Kitchen, Stokes Croft
The bright dining area with Story I by Mila Furstova, a £4,500 art work, on display may be surprising for Stoke Croft but wait until you taste the food. It is shockingly elegant and delicious. Of course, if you’ve already eaten at the Runcible Spoon you may be a little less taken aback at one more…
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Clifton Kitchen, sometimes you can’t please everyone
Clifton Kitchen issued a Groupon voucher for two courses and a glass of wine, on May 10, at a price of £21 for what would cost £54 ordinarily . Once the voucher was bought, a second email was sent out with some amendments and then a third. A final email today announced that the deal…
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The Runcible Spoon, Stokes Croft
Reasons not to review a restaurant on opening night: things can go wrong. Reasons to review: when things go wrong you can blame it on the opening night. I hope that all further sittings are lacking in the slight issues we encountered. The new restaurant Runcible Spoon is a confusing mix of excellent food and…
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