Bristol, City of
Cafe Rouge Bristol Cribbs

Cafe Rouge Bristol Cribbs

Unit R4, BS34 5UR, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom

Cafe • Full • Steak • French


"Three of us had pre ordered the traditional afternoon tea. One of us had arrived early but had to wait quite a while for someone to greet her and show her to the table. Once we were seated, it took a while for the waiting staff to come and find out what we wanted to drink. To be fair, once we had placed our orders, the drinks came quickly. We had to wait nearly half an hour for our pre ordered afternoon teas, even though the restaurant was far from busy. We were trying to catch the attention of the waiting staff but we joked that it felt like they had been trained not to catch our eye! Eventually, one came and said the teas would be out shortly, which they were. The croque monsieur and croque champignon were absolutely delicious and made a great change from traditional sandwiches. The scones were lovely and came with clotted cream and strawberry jam. The cakes, though, were a real disappointment: there was one lemon sponge cake with pieces of something in it but then two identical chocolate sponges. There was a real lack of variety as all were sponge cakes and two were exactly the same. I don't know whether they had run out of what should have been the third cake but no explanation was given. We would have expected perhaps a pastry or a gateau something to give a bit of variety. The afternoon tea should come with bottomless hot drinks. Again, though, no one came to wait on us and see if we needed refills and it took ten minutes of solidly trying to catch the eye of a member of waiting staff any waiting staff! to ask for our refills. Again, once we had requested them, they did come quickly. When the waiting staff were actually waiting on us, they were friendly and pleasant but were just not attentive enough to their customers, despite the restaurant not being busy. Would we come again and would we have this again? I'm unsure: we've had difficulties with waiting staff not being alert enough to the needs of their customers on a previous visit. The savoury aspects of the meal were really good but the sweet aspect was such a disappointment. I think I would only have it again if there were limited other options, staff were attentive to people waiting and I checked first what the cake options were."

The Hatchet Inn

The Hatchet Inn

27 Frogmore St, BS1 5NA, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom

Steak • Drinks • Asiatic • Burgers


"Yesterday 11th June 2023 myself, daughter, son in law and two grandchildren travelled to Bristol from Bridgwater to see The Lion King at the Bristol Hippodrome. We decided to arrive early so that we could all have lunch before going to see the show. We googled places to eat close to the theatre and The Hatchet came up as the oldest in Bristol and did food. Couldn't be happier with the choice. Not only was it a quirky looking pub from the outside, inside was well designed and comfortable. The staff were very friendly and helpful and the food was delicious. My youngest grandson (10 years old) loves beef so he had the roast beef carvery. He's pretty fussy and very vocal if he thinks the meat is tough or tasteless but he was very pleased with his dinner. He said it was the best place he'd had beef and that it was delicious. I can agree as I had the carvery with roast lamb and a small piece of beef and can honestly say it was one of the best carvery's I have had in a while. My daughter and son in law agreed. Plates were piled high and we were thoroughly full. All plates cleared. The chef was very accommodating and plated up exactly what you asked for. The gravy was soooo good. My other grandson (12 years old) ordered the cheese burger. This looked amazing and was huge. The chips were double cooked and lovely. Nice side salad and loads of cheese (proper cheese). All in all we will return for food here. Pleasant surroundings, good food, great selection of drinks and very friendly staff. Just a note............... The pub is over 18's only most of the week, but on Sundays they have families in. This basically means there is no childrens menu and so meals are all the same size and same price. Good value for money though for a city. £11.99 for carvery and the cheeseburger was £10.99."

Cafe Grounded Brislington

Cafe Grounded Brislington

United Kingdom, BS4 3PH, Bristol, City of

Cafe • Pizza • Steak • Coffee


"Very interesting to read the last review as felt like our experience too. This is copied from my review in google: First off I will say that the food was excellent . It 's a bit confusing wether your are supposed to sit yourself or wait at the door etc, get your own menus or order at the bar? There 's a sign on the door saying #takeaway.... so we did thst but no one brought us a menu. After a while I noticed there were a few by the bar so my friend grabbed them and then at the bottom of the menu it does say order at the bar . We ordered the bigger of the two main breakfasts as it comes with black pudding. When the food came there was no vlack pudding and also tomatoes were missing. I politely asked the waitress if we could get some of each and she then informed us they had no black pudding so we asked for extra sausage I stead which she said we wouldn 't be able to do as Sausage is worth more than black pudding. (For the record, on the menu extra black pudding is £2 which is the same as Sausage). I pushed a little and said we had only ordered the bigger breakfast for the black pudding, we may as well not have paid the difference so she said she 'd ask. She did eventually bring us Sausage and tomatoes but didn 't say anything about it. Pretty bad they didn 't tell us when we ordered. No sign of sauce anywhere, we weren 't offered any amd no one asked us if our food was okay. We saw another table have to complain twice as well. It 's a shame as whoever is cooking is doing a really good job but the whole front of house system need to be re thought"