Home to Dancing Jesus! IYKYK. Ok if you don't know, I'll tell you. They've got a huge mural that's…read moredubbed "Dancing Jesus". It's a favorite spot and fixture in Stokes Croft to grab a pint and something to eat. Sitting outside lends to great people watching. Soup and toastie of the day is my go-to for lunch when in the area. Everything is locally sourced meaning fresher ingredients. A toastie may sound just like a toastie but there's something about the way they grill it here. A perfectly crisp bread with properly melted cheeses. I like that they use butter for pan-frying the toasties. Some places use mayo and that's a big ew for me.

This place has confused me for a long time…read more... Firstly I just thought it was a big disused office building where the drunk, jobless people would hang out at all hours of the day. Then they put massive amounts of scaffolding up (carefully avoiding Banksy's 'Mild, Mild West' piece) but yet again, more people would congregate outside it with pints of beer and glass of wine in hand. Then the scaffolding came down, but apart from a new graffiti piece on the side wall I couldn't see any difference. I must visit I thought to myself. I was pleasantly surprised (and slightly ashamed that I thought it was a communal area for the homeless). It's a large bar area with enough seats to hang with your mates and put the world at rest, yet small enough to retain a good atmosphere. There are some comfy sofas if you fancy a coffee and weirdly (in what is essentially a pub) a bookcase with second hand books and magazines. It's a bit of everything but it works. I am not exaggerating when I say that everyday it is packed to the brim so they are obviously doing something right!

Very friendly spot with good coffee and food, plus a zero waste pantry and gift shop. Really glad I…read morefound this cafe and will be back!

Wonderful air conditioned environment with top class food and service. Reception escorted me to…read moremy seat and I was immediately offered water and a menu. they had a new Spring menu which is amazing value one course £20 plus they had a free cocktail

A couple of friends who have recently been lodging with us before going travelling wanted to say…read morethanks by way of a slap up 3 course meal and Harvey Nic's top floor restaurant and cocktail bar was the destination of choice. I'd visited Harvey Nic's main store a number times (mainly buying presents at Christmas!) but never thought about visiting the restaurant or bar. We arrived at the closed Harvey Nichols store, on the corner of Quakers Fryer just after 8pm and took a separate lift up to the top floor. The floor is split in to 2 main parts; a cocktail bar with a long window overlooking Cabot Circus and formal restaurant top to bottom coloured gold! First Impressions were that this is definitely a place for a special occasion and also very bling on the eyes. We stopped in the bar for a quick cocktail before being seated. The cocktail menu is pretty blooming amazing, all your usual suspects along with interesting takes on classics and the department store's own trademark tipples. I went for a wibble. I'd never heard of a wibble before but apparently it's quiet a well known cocktail. It consisted of gin, slow gin, pink grapefruit juice and blackberry liquor. Bang! It's actually making my mouth water now, is that wrong at 07:30am on the bus to work?! After we'd wet the whistle we were seated in the restaurant. As previously mentioned gold is definitely the theme and if your eyes are sensitive to light you may want to bring sunglasses with you. Seriously though the restaurant is presented to a high celebratory standard and is unashamedly swanky. We went for the set 3 course menu option which considering the setting was actually quite reasonable. You get a choice of a meat, fish or vegetarian option for starter and main and a choice of 3 deserts. I went for the meat for starter and main which was a game terrine followed by the pheasant, both were new to me and very tasty. My only criticism would be if you're not in to game then there would have been no meat option on the set menu for you. The starter was nice but as expected (terrine appears to be the starter of choice on many menus at the mo). I'd never had pheasant before and I was surprised at how lite it was. Highly recommended if you want to try game but don't want anything too heavy on the pallet. The desert was a treacle sponge with ginger which was really nice although I had to ask for more ginger as it was reasonably gingerless to begin with. The end result was awesome! The service was excellent from start to finish and the waitress brought out our friends deserts with a personalised message written in chocolate, wishing them good luck on there travels which was a great touch to finish the meal. However... The evening was just starting and there was a cocktail menu in the bar to revisit! We had 3 or 4 more cocktails and one of the Bartenders even knocked us up a personal cocktail made based on my wife Alice's favourite flavours! A great night had in Harvey Nic's restaurant and cocktail bar. Perfect for a special occasion that's a little different from most of the fine eateries in Bristol. Also highly recommended if your a fan of the colour gold.

This place is a higgledy-piggledy mish-mash of New Age items with Native American Indian, Egyptian,…read morefairy, unicorn, crystals of all sorts, with little things children like to receive, such as fairy dust and little rings and pencils. The staff is very friendly and helpful.

They have a really nice lady usually at the desk who is always helpful and they sell a wide range…read moreof products including things like crystals, magic wands and pendulums.

Cute, Quaint, Little Shop in the Town of Lacock…read more Friendly family-owned shop filled with many goods, ranging from soaps and oil essences to little souvenirs and trinkets with an English charm. The staff were friendly and the place literally feels like a home in a good way. I stumbled upon this spot accidentally but if you're in the area and are looking for some interesting goodies from a small local business, check it out! Much better than going to a standard tourist shop.

A funky cafe pretty much in the heart of Clifton…read more They sell all the wonderful coffee's and teas that you would expect, as well as the diverse range of sweet cakes and savory pastries to satisfy all of your taste buds. Then some times you can treat yourself that extra bit more and get a milkshake, yes they are quite expensive, yes you will probably finish it in a matter of seconds, but those moments of pure happiness and joy as it smoothly slips down your throat cannot be matched by many other drinks! The tables outside mean that in the summer you can sit and while away the hours people watching till your hearts content.

I really like this place a lot. It's an odd mixture of a café, serving coffee, tea, croissants and…read moreso on, as well as an independent clothing store. I bought one of my favourite t-shirts ever here - it cost me £20 or something extortionate like that, but it was unique to this store and hence where the value and must-have-ness came from. There are t-shirts, hoddies and some jeans, etc, all gloriously and professionally designed, and as I say, all unique. There's a few tables outside as well, for enjoying a coffee and pastry in the sun, watching the Cliftonites do their thing.

Not the best gallery, the admission just for a small area is not worth it. The free part on the…read moresecond floor is pretty interesting. You can roam around freely.

We stopped here for many reasons: it was sweltering out, the permanent collection is free to…read moreperuse, and my mom heard they had a Thomas Gainsborough. Count us in! We were welcomed immediately upon entering and never felt any sense of pressure to hurry through the gallery. If anything, we could have (and maybe should have) stayed a bit longer to take it all in - there's plenty of seats in which to sit back and do so. But I appreciate all that we saw, including (but not limited to): 'The Bride of Death' painting by Thomas Jones Barker (I was taken with all the symbolism within what is essentially one story frame), Edwin Whitney-Smith's 'The Scarab' bronze statue, and - much to my surprise - the white cabinets against the walls of the room that are positively filled with pullout drawers housing watercolors and pencil sketches of Bath, Somerset, and England (one in particular caught my eye: it was the view looking down on Bath from Alexandra Park, and I had literally just come from the same physical vantage point [and couldn't help but compare my modern day phone photo to the piece of art from the 1800's). I am sure that if we were locals that we'd attend any number of the amazing community focused events they host throughout the year as well. Here's the thing: if art is not your thing... don't come. However: if you love art, even if you just kinda like art, if history and/or art are at all fascinating to you, if you only really like one artist and they carry one of their pieces, you should absolutely come here. It's not an all day affair (the gallery is actually quite small), so give yourself an hour or two and enjoy just another corner of how incredible the city of Bath really is.

There was a mass upheaval in the alcohol business as Threshers went out of business, more…read moreindependant sellers of spirits, beers, alco-pops and wines are taking the fore front of the business... But there is still one small chain that is fighting against the odd's, bargain booze bucks the trend, and offers people the selection and offers that they have come to expect. It is however not really that much of a bargain, you can pick up most of the drinks cheaper at Asda, but for sheer volume and selection this would be the place to go.

I've found the staff at Bargain Booze on West Street to be quite friendly, maybe because I was in a…read morechatty mood at the time, they were very helpful when discussing their range of vodkas and understood my sadness at the lack of non diet tonic water. Though I have to say, my greatest appreciation comes from the fact that they sell Sailor Jerry rum at a bargain price. Its not stocked everywhere and sometimes can be very expensive so was well chuffed to find it here at a bargain price. Its not called Bargain Booze for nothing.