Food was amazing! Service spot on and ambiance akin to an English Pub. Definitely recommend eating…read morehere.

Costumer service is very good Food is delicious…read more Restaurant is so lovely Nice place to go chill and have lunch/dinner.

Lovely pub appears small but superb with excellent real ales. Love the team shed inner bar seating…read morearea with friendly service. Want to visit again

It may be small, but don't be fooled - this teeny tiny pub on Victoria Street is easily the best…read morepub in Bristol. Situated outside of the hustle and bustle of the city centre, the kind of crowd you'll find here is the one that loves a descent pint of beer and an evening spent with friends. It can be quite difficult to get a seat here, so it's not a great place to take someone who hates standing with a drink. The King's Head will give you a little slice of history and take you back to a time when not every pub was a chain, and when reasonable prices weren't a rarity.

A very chilled out place, you'll have a very enjoyable drink at The Bell. It has managed (or ended…read moreup with) just the right tempo. It's never too noisy or too quiet here, and you shouldn't have to wait too long at the bar. There's a pretty garden with plenty of seating. Plus, it's not set against a road, which means you can properly relax with your drink. I like this place because of the music on offer. There are various genres played over the sound system here, and you'll probably be exposed to something new when you go. They have live music too, which will probably expand your horizens a bit as well. It's a good pub regardless of the music, though.

Great real ale pub with a friendly mixed crowd of locals, hippies and students. I would feel…read morecomfortable sitting here alone to wait for someone. Beer is excellent - the full Butcombe range and I love that it closes after lunch like a proper pub. There is a good range of snacks including nachos and wraps, lots of flyers for local music and arts event. The garden is covered and lovely for smokers and non-smokers alike. Indoors is wooden and comfortable.

We had an excellent meal here…read more The bacon confit starter was spot on. It wasn't fatty and paired really well with the black pudding, mustard and quail's egg. It was also beautifully presented. I had the vegetable and mozzarella bake as my main. It was delicious and I loved the nut and tomato sauce. Lovely texture and flavour. However the portion is tiny and felt a bit mean given how large the meat mains were. Desserts were amazing as well. Excellent service, super friendly!

Not long been taken over - the new landlord is doing it up single handedly and you get the sense…read morethat it will be a cracking little boozer when the garden had been tidied and he's finished his projects- not that it really needs it- the pub looks great with the fireplaces and comfy sofa in front of it, begging for winter! had beautiful sandwiches - gastro stylee on fresh granary bread and the ploughmans was generous too- love this pub!

One of Bristol's oldest music venues, this intimate pub is a bit of a halfway house where you can…read moresee the wannabes on their way up and the never quite weres coming back down the other side. If you know your stuff you can catch some really big pre-fame names (I saw Radiohead for £3.50 many, many years ago, though once turned down the chance to see some new band called 'Oasis' in favour of watching the footie in a pub down the road). Weekends are dominated by tribute nights, which can be fun if you get the right one, while up-and-coming acts vie for your attention during the week, when there are also cheap drinks offers early in the night. Be warned: when stage diving keep an eye on the pillars as a mate of mine almost knocked himself out at a Moonflowers gig in the early 90s...

Just over the Bristol Bridge from town, The Fleece is a small pub and music venue mostly catering…read moreto the rock scene. The floor is paved with flag stones, convenient if you spill your drink! Probably easier to keep in a decent state with the dancing and moshing that goes on here too. It's on the circuit for small bands trying to get a break. That means the odd act that will be topping the charts in a few years time and not a few bands that definitely won't It's a good space for a band to play, perhaps not quiet enough for singer songwriter type acts. The drinks on offer here aren't too badly priced (and a lot cheaper than the O2 academy, which also has a very dire range on offer, thanks to the corporate sponsorship). Things tend to be a bit calmer here too. Although this might just be because it's not such a big place. A gig here generally gets going towards the end, and their will be the risk of crowddivers falling on you, but I've never been there when things get out of control. If you like live music have a look for a band you know (or a tribute to them) and get a ticket for a good night.

A wonderful place to go for Sunday lunch, but get there early as lunches are served on a first come…read morefirst served basis. Choices are usually Beef, Cheken, Lamb (thoroughly recommend), or Vegetarian. Wonderful outside area that can be used all year round. Very friendly, family and dog oriented.

The food was amazing The service was incredible…read moreThe atmosphere was great My child really enjoyed it

One of the pubs closest to my house, and easily the best!…read more Firstly atmosphere is perfect for a local pub / informal restaurant. Extremely relaxed, friendly and accommodating staff with a separated spacious dining area and bar area. The recently opened beer garden is extremely spacious, a sun trap until evening with plenty for seating. Also quiz on Tuesday night is great fun. Breakfast: Had the breakfast twice with friends. Eggs royale was delicious, and the extra large traditional breakfast is huge. All very reasonable. Food: Burgers are excellent. Juicy with great chips. Can also recommend the fish and chips! The old spot sundae is incredible. One big negative is that there is no Sunday roast! Beer: Some good ales to choose from, and usually two local guest ales on tap. My one criticism is the selection could be larger, especially when it comes to cider and ale. Perhaps some more bottled ales/cider? Overall ++ food ++ atmosphere - range of ales and cider - no Sunday roast

From the owner: The Gloucester Old Spot is a family and dog friendly pub that does excellent food and drink at…read morereasonable prices. We have a very large beer garden that is great to relax in and also great for the kids. We are very proud to say that we have just won the award for Best Pub Food at the 2015 Bristol Good Food Awards.

The Duke of York is a great little pub tucked away in the backstreets of St Werburghs. It's…read moreregularly frequented by musicians and arty types. I love it here for a multitude of reasons, but this is one of the main ones. They serve excellent beers at reasonable prices and there's a skittle ally in the back room. All of the skittles are unique, with some being twice as fat as some of the others. The markings dictating where the skittles should be placed are too far apart, making the game unfeasibly difficult, (but this doesn't bother me as I always cheat). The place is decorated in some artfully applied kitsch, and there's a bunch of feisty women serving behind the bar most of the time, who are generally up for a chat as long as they're not too busy. There's a great walled garden that can get incredibly noisy, and an upstairs room with distinctly different look and feel to the downstairs section. I'm unsure what this place serves (probably private hire?), as it has only ever been sparsely used when I've been there, even thought he downstairs has been heaving.

This very friendly, spacious but cosy local pub in the arty locale of St Werburgh's is a good…read morechoice when you're in this neck of the woods. While perhaps not being a pub to which you should make the journey from other parts of Bristol, it's a solid local establishment serving the chatty residents of BS2. It has loads of different areas, including the famous skittles alley, and the much-loved covered back garden which has several large picnic tables to accommodate large groups and smokers. The main ground floor areas inside are cosy, lit with strings of fairy lights. Upstairs, find a space that could be somewhere else completely; with chic low sofas and tables, and art on the walls, it feels more like an upmarket city centre bar. Odd to have such separate areas with distinct atmospheres, maybe, but good to have the options all in one place. When walking through dark local St Werburgh's streets looking for the place, keep your eyes peeled for the splendid exterior covered in graffiti, and listen out for the happy chatter from the smokers in the pub garden.

The Shakespeare Tavern is a proper boozer just off the centre of Bristol and just at the back of…read morethe waterfront. It couldn't be much more different to the other pubs/bars that it's close to. You can tell from the outside exactly what it'll be like inside; a traditional English, old mans pub. It is actually a really refreshing pub to go and hide away from the horribleness of the waterfront on a Friday or Saturday night. I went on Saturday night for the first time in well over a year. I'd been drinking wine with a meal before hand, so deiced to stick to that; £8 a bottle! Boom! Drinks wise you'll find your bog standard draught lagers, ciders and ales and the usual top shelf suspects. Nothing out of the ordinary here. Apart from a few of the punters - eeeek! Don't make eye contact! If they have eyes, that is! With pub going out of business left right and centre, I can't see this one any time soon. It's serves it's purpose well!

A perfect place for a pre gig drink if you are heading to the Thekla or the Louisiana. The…read moreShakespeare is set up some steps by the floating bridge so grab a window seat and it is a great place to watch the world go by. It's quite a small pub but for some baffling reason, despite it always seeming busy, I have never struggled to get a seat in here. As with most Bristol pubs they serve good local ciders but the best bit is the food. Pieminister, mash, peas and gravy is a must on a cold winter or autumnal day. And if that day is a Wednesday you get a free drink with said meal! Bargain. This is one of those pubs which makes you feel warm and lovely inside when the nights are cold, dark and long, less so in the summer but still well worth a pre-gig visit.

This is the pub Start the Bus wishes it was! But never will be because it is run by a greedy,…read morecooperate, money grabbing chain of pubs and bars that squeezes every single penny out of the customer in return for a manufactured sense of an original experience. The Mother's Ruin on the other hand is that brilliant, special night out that you can only have at this pub! They have about three bands play here a week and entry is pretty much always free! None of this £3 here or there, which you know is only going towards paying the bouncer. The drinks are fantastically cheap, like £2 a pint cheap, and they clearly care about good music. The place is understated and perfectly decorated with basically nothing but pictures of the musicians they love. It's interestingly laid out as well over two or three floors with the stage on the top floor, but you can still hear the band playing throughout the whole pub. The staff are lovely and friendly and this is a proper music pub for people who are sick of being ripped off to hear great live music.

They were out of ale (the pump spluttered and died when trying to pour me a pint) and cider (the…read morelast 2 customers served had apparently emptied the barrel prior to my arrival). I settled for a bottled Cider, which was a rather nice organic offering from Westons. Not sure quite what this pub wants to be, but also not quite sure what to think of it (beyond the running out of my key beverages, which is why I have to give it 2). It is shabby, but not in a bad way in my opinion. I do like the name too!