Cafes / Reviews
Dinner at Dockyard Cafe Bar
Ignore the butter in a small packet served straight from the fridge and evening service at the cafe next door to the ss Great Britain is almost like dining in a proper restaurant.
It helps that the dining room commands a panoramic view of the Floating Harbour, although further this way it’s not quite as picture postcard as from the Olive Shed also on the south side of the water.
From a small balcony though, not only can you admire boats sailing back and forth but wonder how long those passing by underneath on foot are going to take before they realise they are walking down a dead end.
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The Dockyard Cafe Bar is open on Thursday to Sunday evenings in August, with live entertainment on selected nights which last week included spectacular views of hot air balloons.
Paninis and toasties remain from the lunch menu of what during the day is packed with tourists to one of Bristol’s most popular visitor attractions.
Of more interest on the dinner menu are the mezze platters, either £9 for the meat option or £8 for the vegetarian, both served with salad and bread.
The best bits of my meat platter were the smoked mackerel pate and roasted peppers with chorizo, while over the other side of the table Joanna was particularly enjoying her marinated artichokes and lemon and coriander falalfel.
On both of our plates were houmous with harissa oil and pitta, and roasted vegetable cous cous, and it was these that brought home the unwise choice of serving the food on a slate (and if you are going to have slates, get proper ones rather than plastic versions made in China).
For its name alone, I chose to drink a bottle of GWR Maiden Voyage, with other bottles of cider and beer available and wine by the normal 75cl bottle or in miniature 187ml varieties – just bigger than those packets of butter.
The Dockyard Cafe Bar, Great Western Dockyard, Bristol, BS1 6TY
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