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My Bristol Favourites: David Hoare
David Hoare is a stand-up comedian and musician who has just won the Audience Favourite Award at the 2021 Musical Comedy Awards.
Alongside fellow Bristol-based comic, Stuart Goldsmith, David is relaunching Chops Comedy at Friendly Records Bar, a new material comedy night on Tuesdays from November 9 which pre-pandemic featured headliners including Ed Gamble, Mike Wozniak and Ahir Shah.
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These are David’s top-five Bristol favourites:
Squeezed
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“The amount of good burger places in Bristol is astonishing, so when I say Squeezed in Wapping Wharf is the best burger I have ever had, I don’t say it lightly. Both their beef and vegan burgers are delicious. I particularly recommend the NY Seoul burger. The lemonade and fries are also a must.”
Friendly Records
Chops Comedy gets its name from Friendly Records’ former use as a butchers – photo: Martin Booth
“Yes, I am biased, as it’s the venue for Chops Comedy, but Friendly Records on North Street is also an amazing vinyl record shop. Tom and Benny, who run the store, are just so welcoming and wonderful and I have found some excellent stuff there. I walked away with Close To The Edge by Yes for £8. You can often find members of Portishead, Idles and Big Jeff shopping there too.”
The Lanes
The Lanes was previously Bristol’s dole office – photo: The Lanes
“I could and probably should be accused of being a man-child. Going bowling for your birthdays is for eight-year-olds apparently? But The Lanes is such a great bowling alley that I still go there every year and I am 32. My girlfriend and I go on dates there all the time. We went there the day after Brexit and bowled our sadness away. We love the music they play (Motown night), they have delicious pizza and in the words of Garth from Wayne’s World: ‘They got a pool table, too.'”
Cedars Express
Cedars Express on the corner of Park Street Avenue and Park Row uses authentic Lebanese recipes – photo: Martin Booth
“Being a comedian means my evening meals can often be chaotic. I’m either eating too early, before the show, or more often, eating after the show. Cedars Express on Park Row is situated near a bunch of great comedy nights and I often go there after a show to grab a lamb meshwi wrap. Some of the friendliest people in Bristol work there and I highly recommend paying 50p extra to add some tabbouleh to your wrap.”
Frisbee golf at Ashton Court
“When lockdown activities grew tiresome, my girlfriend and I looked for something that we hadn’t done a million times. We discovered there is a frisbee golf course up at Ashton Court, in the woods. I have now gone back there A LOT. It is so much fun to romp around the woods with flying discs and you can combine it with a walk in Ashton court, which is so beautiful.”
Main photo: David Hoare
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