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Spicer+Cole opens third cafe on Gloucester Rd
Spicer & Cole have opened their third cafe in Bristol on the Gloucester Road.
Anyone familiar with Spicer’s first two homes on one corner of Queen Square and in the heart of Clifton Village will recognise this new younger sibling with its plain white tiles, Farrow & Ball shades of grey, simple wooden seating, and a huge blackboard on which is chalked the breakfast, lunch and drink options.
Think smoked salmon on rye bread or a field mushroom bap for breakfast, and tortilla with salads or soup of the day for lunch.
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Then on the counter there are the cakes. Oh, the cakes – spiced apple bundts, almond and white chocolate blondies with peanut butter icing; rose, orange and cardamom cakes.
“When it was Tart the coffee was cold and the service was slow,” one customer says. “I even had to go next door sometimes. It had a lot of issues.”
Next door to here is a Costa – and perish the thought that anybody who loves their coffee would be forced to go there.
Spicer & Cole’s house blend is roasted by Extract in St Werburgh’s – a blend of yellow bourbon from Brazil, Colombian marianela and Guatemalan Monte Rosa.
But I wholeheartedly recommend you try the current guest from The Barn in Berlin – with beans grown in Sulawesi in Indonesia with the blackboard giving tasting notes of candied cherry and nutmeg.
Spicer & Cole, 16 The Promenade, Gloucester Road, Bristol, BS7 8AE
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