Cafes / Reviews
Flour & Ash opens bakery & cafe in Westbury-on-Trym
Flour & Ash has opened a bakery and cafe alongside its restaurant in Westbury-on-Trym, announcing its new daytime arrival on Wednesday with balloons and doughnuts.
Led, much like Alice into Wonderland, customers followed metallic balloons through a stone archway and up a grass path into a room where the smell of freshly baked bread and warmth washed over them like a wave.
Owner Steve Gale and his team decided that it was time Westbury-on-Trym had an independent bakery.
He and his team now promise to offer artisan bread and pastries, great coffee from Extract, fantastic cakes, creative wood-oven centric breakfasts and brunches, with their award-winning pizzas still being served from 4pm.
The wood oven will be churning out baked goods from 8am every morning, and the proving, kneading and preparing of the dough will all be done at the front of house, in a sort of bake-off-esque spectacle. Paul Hollywood eat your heart out.
Other than the smell and the smiles as you enter, the first thing you are faced with is a table of mouthwatering baked goods and salads.
Sourdough loaves, slabs of dense cake, flaky pastries and mounds of vibrant vegetables await- it’s almost feast enough for the eyes. But be sure not to deprive your stomach.
The menu is split into breakfast, brunch and lunch as well as tartine, sourdough sarnies and daily salads which range in price from £3 for a single salad to £10.50 for the steak and eggs on beef dripping toast.
A slice of the homemade coconut and lime cake (£2.75) is dense and drizzle-like, with a dollop of sharp, lime curd on the top which hits the roof of your mouth with the perfect, palate cleansing zing. Ambrosia for the soul.
The ventriccina salami, buffalo mozzarella and grilled aubergine sourdough sandwich (£5) is quite possibly the best sandwich I have ever eaten.
The salami is salty and sliced to the perfect thickness; the mozzarella is so fresh that the buffalo milk almost pours from its middle and the grilled aubergine has a slightly pickled quality to it.
The piece-de-resistance, however, is the delicious bread which it comes on. It’s soft and delicate with a deliciously crisp crust and allows your teeth to get truly stuck in.
While Flour & Ash will remain a family favourite for pizza, this revamp has breathed a new energy into it. The cake is wonderful, the service impeccable and the atmosphere warm for people who just want to enjoy good coffee, great bakes in a fantastic environment.
Flour & Ash, 38 The High Street, Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, BS9 3DZ
0117 330 0033
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