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Bar of the Week: To the Moon
We’ve all got them. Our favourite spot in our favourite bar. It may be the table in the window, or the seat at the bar, or the secluded corner away from prying eyes.
Now there’s a new favourite spot in town. Head to Midland Road off Old Market, find what used to be the famous John’s Cafe, explore inside what is now To the Moon and discover a small room just about big enough to fit a Chesterfield sofa with a glass ceiling above flooding the space with natural light.
Et voila, your new favourite place to spend the night.
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To the Moon has been opened by a couple whose backgrounds are in music and fashion.
Chris and Gemma searched high and low before finding two next door units in an area Bristol worth keeping an eye on. Hot on the heels of the Old Market Assembly are the imminent arrivals of Alex Does Coffee beneath Two’s Company and 25a Old Market from the team behind No. 12 Easton.
Chris jokes that he has always thought Gemma’s face looks like a moon, so the name stuck and now the pair are combining their two loves in this new bar which will soon also be a shop selling mostly sustainable female fashion.
The selection on the shop rails will be from local designers, and the bottled beers follow this same formula, with Good Chemistry being brewed a few hundred yards from the front door and Arbor and Dawkins not much further away. Currently on tap is Frontier lager from Fullers and Cornish Orchards cider.
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On a recent Wednesday evening, a selection of songs was as eclectic as you would expect from Chris who has played in numerous different bands, with LCD Soundsystem, Jamie T, Biffy Clyro and Queens of the Stone Age all on the stereo.
The bar top has been inherited from short-lived Nigerian restaurant Iroko, with the addition of pages from copies of Rolling Stone magazine from the 1970s. Even the electric blue paint on the walls is an homage to a famous outfit worn by Jimi Hendrix.
Chris and Gemma are starting low key, with the bar currently only open from 6pm on weekday evenings, and from 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Future plans include an increased drinks offering, and making use of the kitchen that is currently unused, perhaps following in the vein of The Old Bookshop and hosting regular pop-ups.
“I bloody love it here. I love it,” says a new customer as she walks in through the door for the first time before being given a brief tour by Gemma. “Oh my god it’s amazing. It’s ace, innit!”
She hadn’t even seen your new favourite corner of any Bristol bar, and promptly settles in for the night.
To the Moon, 27-29 Midland Road, Old Market, Bristol, BS2 0JT
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