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Floating restaurant and bar for sale
A floating restaurant and bar that was once one of the most prestigious in Bristol is for sale.
The boat was most recently the short-lived restaurant and takeaway Fish but before that it had been the Glassboat for more than three decades, where many long lunches on expenses took place in the 1980s and 1990s.
For sale with Burston Cook, the 120 ft former barge can seat 170 people and comes with a fully fitted commercial kitchen, takeaway facility, restaurant and bar, as well as a pavement licence and mooring licence included.
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Inside Fish – photo: Martin Booth
If Arne Ringner – also the owner of the Lido and Three Brothers Burgers – had got his way, the Glassboat could have been a floating botanical garden.
But after Bristol’s planners turned down that original idea, the barge became a restaurant with floors from the recently defunct Courage Brewery in what is now Finzels Reach, the solid marble bar from the old St Nicholas Fish Market and the portholes from a cross-channel ferry.
Other fittings came from a former police station, Avonmouth flour mills and the former Western Daily Press offices on Silver Street.
The boat has views over the Floating Harbour and Bristol Bridge – photo: Martin Booth
Main photo: Martin Booth
Read more: Fish: ‘Fish and chips with the wow factor’ – restaurant review
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