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FT: ‘Bristol is city with arguably best food scene in the UK’
The Financial Times Weekend Magazine has devoted a full page to Bristol, praising “the city with arguably the best food scene in the UK at the moment”.
Food writer Tim Hayward, who used to live here, visited in order to explore some of Bristol’s newest openings and one longtime favourite watering hole.
“It’s hard to pin down exactly why Bristol is punching well above its weight in terms of food at the moment,” Hayward writes, “but the fact that you can cheerfully spend a damp midweek evening drifting from one excellent place to another, enjoying a warm welcome and never less than extraordinarily good cooking, bodes well for the city’s future.”
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His first stop was Bellita on Cotham Hill:
Then it was on to Wapping Wharf and Cargo, with mentions for Bristol “stalwarts” Bertha’s Pizza and Wild Beer.
Hayward praises the “real innovation… in the tiny scale of most of the businesses” in Cargo, in particular Woky Ko and Box E:
The General next for Pi Shop and Paco Tapas:
Up the hill to Clifton Village for dinner proper in Shop 3 Bistro, with service that Hayward called “some of the most charming, unaffected and professional I’ve experienced in too long a time”:
And finally, a nightcap or two in Hausbar at the top of Blackboy Hill:
Main photo of Cargo by Jon Craig
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