Brunels Buttery in Bristol, City of - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

I was walking nearby and I wanted to buy 2 soft drinks. Staff was very unfriendly. No "hello/good morning", not said how much I need to pay (just smashed number to the pay machine) and throw the machine in my direction. No "thank you". Not a single interaction with a customer. The whole situation took literally 45-60 seconds but it was enough for me to be remembered as one of the most unpleasant interactions with staff in Bristol.

Love the Buttery ! A great harbourside location, great food for eat 'in' (outdoors) or take-away (seats all along the waterfront in both directions)

What an earth is this? Charge you an arm and a leg and this is what you get? Small handful of overcooked chips…..Been going here since I was little with several different owners over the years but the latest lot really are the worst, half a burger bun box with no lid because they want to cut corners. Never known anything like it. Definitely won’t be back…till the next lot of owners anyway as I’m sure they won’t last if they carry on like this.

Called here for a bacon bap. It was alright.

Had a homemade Cornish pasty for £4 and i am convinced it was a microwaved Ginsters pasty. You can tell by the chewy pastry

Excellent food freshly done and very friendly service

We were visiting SS Great Britain. We went into their cafe but the prices were extortionate so we decided to walk 5 minutes along the river to Brunels Buttery. Great selection, seating on the river, very friendly staff. Had a lovely BLT and a sausage and egg roll. Very reasonably priced! Popular with locals.

This is a café right on the quayside here on the Bristol Harbourside. We have walked past this (seemingly popular) ‘wayside’ café, with a covered seated area, so-many times during our many walks around this lovely area. Today it was overcast and there was a cold breeze. So, we popped-in for much-welcomed warming coffee, and we ordered two “Americano coffees with hot milk”. We were left disappointed and wondered if the following tip would help the person who served us. An Americano is a single or double shot of Expresso with additional boiling-hot water in a ratio of 2:1; to which you can add milk (or not) to taste. An ‘Americano with hot milk’ is the former base coffee with added frothy hot milk (produced by injecting pressurized steam to heat to boiling point). What an Americano it is not is an Expresso with pan-heated boiled milk added: that’s a ‘Latte’ (actually it’s a hot ‘Caffe latte’). Hot milky coffee develops a disgusting skin as it cools, and that spoils any enjoyment. Given the wealth of cafés in this area, we are most unlikely to revisit.

Don't be put off by some reviews. This is, what it is, a basic grub stop, nothing fancy, and all the better for that. But what you get is honest, well cooked and presented. Been coming here for a long time, bringing various friends for good old "Butties" . Never been disappointed. Long may this Bristol Institution continue.

Excellent food and service very friendly 👌

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Please don't let the negativity put you off. Visited here Sunday morning with my daughter. Ordered a bacon and sausage sandwich to share (she's only 1.5 years old!) it was a speedy sandwich but was delicious. Would visit again in a heartbeat.

No frills cafe doing takeaway sandwiches/breakfast baps etc. Outdoor searing on harbour side only. Good value. Standard coffee £2.50.

Great fun and food. Need to learn how to clear and clean tablez

Not much choice for Sushi. Many choices for India curry. Buffet price not include any drink Service really fast and always tidy up the table.

Was a bit disappointed today, the chips were dry and over cooked even the kids left them. For about £10 you get a handful of chips in half a bugger bun container with a sausage x2. I have been enjoying the buttery for many years but a few times recently it's just not like it use to be. Just an honest opinion as this is how places make improvements. Thank you.

Had a lovely walk around the harbourside ended up at the "buttery", what a dissappointment! A lovely large fresh roll with one peice of bacon in it! Cup of tea was like hot water with milk in it! will not be returning!

Lovely local food on the harbour side

Lovely egg and bacon sarni and a nice hot cup of tea! Good prices too!

Great place to stop for a drink or a bite to eat but sadly for what you get it's very expensive there are better places around and more reasonable...

Great place to stop off for a bit of food and a drink .nice friendly staff also

Really lovely service and cans thank you for the cans and the trains and the cranes and the train and boat. But not Donald trump's boat that can do one.

Did not consider vegetarian sausage in a roll good value for money. Do not eat tomato sauce its very poor quality Although have eaten here a number of times i would not come again. Sausages of poor quality only offer fried eggs no healthy options

Nice location close to the river. Food was ok.

food was burnt but cold so I guess they burnt it to a crisp and then let go cold before serving it. Worst breakfast I have ever had all four of us were very disappointed.

Great toasted jam sandwich. Definitely brightened up an otherwise dull day

Great view of the Harbour and place to eat a snack in the summer we visited in December cold wet and windy. Good kids menu

Great breakfast and children's meals friendly staff and value for money awesome scenery love the trains too..

Message to staff... You can smile, its not against the law. 🤣

The sausage and bacon sandwich and cup of tea was great. Unfortunately the staff were very unhappy and spoiled things a little.

Not being funny but the hot chocolate burnt our moths and well there was hardly any chocolate in there won't be oring there again.

The food is the same as ever though service is much slower. It’s let down by the dire “coffee” which is basically hot water with a slight hint of coffee

Perfect location, great food and great views.

Staff not in any rush…. Waited over 40 minutes for a breakfast sandwich! Not advised of wait when ordering. Very disappointed compared to previous visits.

Enjoyed our trip around the SS Great Britain although very expensive. Guides very knowledgeable. Lots of stairs but there is a lift for the less able. Also toilets within the ship itself. There's an adjoining cafe but we didn't use it so can't speak for the food.

Lovely food, lovely location. Great prices .

Omg they were going to charge me $6 for instant coffee!!

The lack of customer service is laughable. Food is tasteless and expensive for 0 flavour.

Great place for a snack or meal when walking the harbour side.children friendly!

Pommes, Cheeseburger und Veggi Sandwich schmecken nicht, kaum Geschmack am Essen

Great place for a snack on a Sunday morning when everywhere else is closed.

Handy little cafe on the water front, great food and fair price

chocolate and coffee terrible, weak and nasty

Really not much to say. A fairly typical small self-service café. Surprisingly good coffee ☕️ I had a bacon 🥓 and sausage sarnie, it was fine, but just ordinary. Exactly as you would expect here. Nice atmosphere, with ancient railway and equally ancient railcars on one side and the port on the other.

Bristol classic, always pay a visit anytime I'm here!

We stopped here for some lunch after visiting the SS Great Britain. The water taxi drops you right on their doorstep. The food was delicious and quick service considering how busy it was.

Doesn't open at 8am as advertised on Google. 5 tables worth of people sitting at 8am waiting for it to open. All left and went elsewhere.

Harborside eatery most people know about. Reasonable prices watch out for the pigeons and seagulls trying to pinch your food

Went up to order a sandwich when my table already had some on the way and when there number was called I was at the front of the queue waiting to order and the server then said I have to go to the back of the line because I can't collect and order, I wasn't even collecting someone else from our table was, not happy with this service, very rude

Really lovely spot on Habourside with wooden benches, a big awning over the top and a menu with something for everyone. Chilled out atmosphere, dogs are very welcome - they even have cooked then cooled doggie sausages wrapped in napkins and ready to go. The orders come out of the little kitchen pretty quickly, even on a busy Sunday. Go early as I was disappointed the tuna jacket potato had sold out but the chips were lovely instead. Someone else ordered the bacon and egg sandwich and it was a scrummy, chunky doorstop.

No cycle parking, so they clearly don't want custom from people who have cycled here. Pretty poor customer service, with a hint of arrogance. My meal didn't come with a serviette, I had to coax them into giving me metal cutlery, which they implied I was going to steal, and they give you the hot drink first, then take ages to prepare your food order, by which time your drink has cooled down, presumably in the hope that you'll order another hot drink. And they charge £1.90 for a cold canned drink, which is barefaced greed in my book.

Such a lovely cute little greasy spoon style outdoor cafe. You can’t beat a sarnie under the trees ❤️

Breakfast by the Riverside. No frills, no dress code, just met friends for a bacon roll and coffee. Perfect way to start the day

It's a great location but the worst coffee I have ever paid £2.50 for. Either serve decent coffee or don't charge Americano prices for instant coffee stirred into hot water.

Some searches say open on Monday, not always the case. Went back twice during the week for breakfast rolls as this is a favourite place to sit and watch the world go by. Contents of rolls good but sorry to say the quality of the roll sadly lacking, on both occasions tasted cheap.

A pleasant informal location by the waterfront where I enjoyed a refreshing strong cup of tea and a delicious bacon and sausage roll;perfect.

Double decker burger - I'm speechless. Delicious, giant - strongly recommended 👌🏻 😋 👍🏻 😀 😄

Brilliant cafe with decent freshly cooked food. A real service with a smile place where the staff seem happy that you dropped by. Well cleaned and maintained for this type of place.

Execelent bacon, sausage and egg rolls

We were really looking forward to a hot chocolate at the buttery as we have not visited for a long time, it was grey looking and tasted awful. I asked for another spoonful of chocolate which was kindly delivered as s squirt from a squeezy bottle, this made no difference to the taste and unfortunately the hot chocolate ended up in the bin! We will not be returning which is a shame

Nice little cafe on the harbour-side

Absolutely shocked of high prices and low quality food. Not recommended!

Great foodand service also a brilliant cup of tea brewed to perfection.

Lovely bacon roll and smashing cup of tea (made in a pot!). Only four stars because the kid's cheesy chips weren't very cheesy not given a chance to melt. The chips were great though!

Love this place. Been coming here for years and years. Great breakfast baps. Great lunch; the chips are the best. Go for a walk with or with the children. Nice place to sit, have a coffee and people watch.

Me and a friend are here at the moment and we paid £237 each with breakfast and that was with flights we have only been here 4 nights but we are quite happy here the only thing we can gripe about is the bathroom door shouldn’t be see through and the weather which you can’t change so if you want 5 star service pay an extra lot of money somewhere else

Great place for brunch. Fab service.

Heard that this had a good reputation, but sadly it must have been from previous owners. Had a baguette that had either overcooked bacon or it had been kept warm too long. It was brittle and tasteless. Dry bread with (ironically for a "buttery") no butter on. I should have read the fact that on a busy dockside there was no queue. Will avoid in the future.

Today, myself and partner went to Brunel’s buttery, as I has been there years before and had had the best bacon butty ever. WELL what a disappointment😫. I never generally do reviews but want to warn anyone who is thinking about going. Don’t waste your money. We had a bacon baguette. The bacon was totally incinerated and tasteless. The bread roll didn’t have any butter on, and the egg was like rubber. I should have complained but was embarrassed to do so. WILL NOT BE VISITING AGAIN 😞

A legendary place to eat in Bristol , the bacon sandwiches are very nice but the irony is they don’t use butter ! It’s margarine and I hate it! ….it simply has to be a good quality salted butter for all sandwiches.

Delicious tradicional sandwiches!

Outstanding burgers at this place 😜

Very tasty cake and a cup of coffee here today , always good to eat here

Great place to eat and have a warm bacon roll. Even on a cold day its great there!!

Great place to stop for a coffee when strolling around the docks.

Nice people, good outdoor seating and food served quickly. Chips were great and home made pastie really nice. Maybe would be good to have some gravy or sauce on top or the offer of it when you order. Hope to be back when next passing by!

Good sandwich for a good price.

Great place for a snack..reasonable prices..

Very disappointed. Came down today at 10:45 to find it closed. Parents here from the States wanting a delicious bacon butty

Coffee ok sausage roll over microwaved and greasy, tomato sauce very translucent and tasteless. Been there several years ago and it was very good. Shame as there is several nice places close by.

Nice little place by Bristol docks outside seating with a canopy over nice food and a good cup of coffee.

Lovely setting good food nice staff what more could you ask for

If I could leave 0 stars I would, Brunel's buttery is an utter waste of time, it doesn't help that for years living in Bristol I've heard how great the bacon sandwiches are here, that is just not true. The bacon was thick and not well cooked and enjoyable, the bread was huge thick slices and very dry with hard dry crusts, the wait was long, and the condiments come in a huge messy tomato covered bottle which is too big to aim your ketchup into sandwich as the bottle is roughly the mass of a bucket, so very awkward to get your sauce on the sandwich. I would never come here again and feel that I totally wasted my money

Arrived a bit late in the afternoon, but was made welcome.

Had read about Brunels Buttery on here prior to my trip so wanted to visit. Wasn't dissapointed. Had the sausage, egg and bacon sandwich and shared some cheesy chips and they were lovely. Definitely recommend a visit, especially on a sunny day when you can sit watching the boats go by on the harbour.

Great rolls with sausage and egg in. One was veggie sausage. However the coffee was not good.

Brunels Buttery, right on the dockside, is a Bristol institution. It should be Grade One listed - as one of the best places to eat in Bristol. This doesn't pretend to be a "posh" eatery - it's just absolute top-quality breakfast, morning and lunchtime snacks and coffee. Of course it's famed for their bacon butties in all shapes, sizes and varieties. Freshly cooked to order and eaten in the open (but under cover and shaded in this hot weather). It's fun to sit and eat and watch the harbour activities pass by. And this morning, we had a steam trains taking people on short trips along the harbour as well. If you are in Bristol, this is a MUST DO.

Arrived a bit late in the day, but staff were very accommodating, food was average and reasonably priced.

We alway call here for breakfast when we visit Bristol. Today we had breakfast and a lunchtime snack. The sausage cobs are always good. Very friendly and cheerful. This is not a inside cafe and all seating is outside but mainly covered.

Looks a bit run down but giand burgers and sandwiches. Taste good too. And reasonable priced.

Had a bacon and egg bap - the egg was a reheated congealed blob which was revolting. Easily the worst egg I've ever had. They're also very selfish, waking everyone up who lives nearby with their stupid pointless leaf blower every morning.

Delicious bacon roll with a cup of coffee

I was at this cafe on 27th July with my family. We have visited many times and the staff are always pleasant and the food good. However, I was mortified to see a lady with long blonde hair cooking food with it swinging all over the hob. Talk about unhygenic. Anyone with long hair should have it tied back away from any food preparation. It completely put me off, and we went somewhere else. I Hope the Management read this and act accordingly. No-one wants cooked food with long hair swinging all over it, disgusting.

Where possible I try to only eat at venues which stock Apple Tango, so Brunel's Buttery was a dream come true for me. The chance to eat a good lunchtime snack for a reasonable price at a nice, vibrant riverside location with a can of Apple Tango.

Enjoyed a cup of tea as we were due to eat later. Couldn't help noticing the size of the bacon and sausage sandwiches to be eaten with one of the best views in Bristol. I will return.

Where in the heart of Bristol, can you get simple, delicious food without fuss or breaking the bank? The portions are generous and the staff efficient. Oh, and the chips are the best I know of!

I’ve been coming to the Brunel Buttery on and off for 30years. Sadly it’s a shadow of it’s formal self. My wife and I had a Cornish pasty and chips, tea an coffee. The drinks were OK, but the food was a shadow of its former high quality standards The fat used for the chips left an unpleasant taste in the mouth and the microwaved tescos economy pasty pastry was almost inedible. Most of it was left in the un-recyclable plastic containers and cups and thrown away. The previous customer was complaining about his dried out sandwich. Apology given but no offer of a refund says it all really.

Used to be a good place but food a bit to expensive now , also food not very good quality the oil in fryers definitely needs to be changed

Still got it great bacon and egg doorstep sandwiches and much more.

Stopped for a nice spot of shade and a coffee on a brilliant sunny Monday morning whilst waiting for the Bristol Ferry at the Wapping Wharf stop. Quick and simple. Lovely views of the water front. Not too busy.