The Bell in Bath and North East Somerset - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

We didn't eat there this time so I'll review the food when I'm there next.

On the night we visited the place, there was live music and a little special of that kind. Electro-brass is not something you hear every day and everyone has their own taste. Good atmosphere and good food and reasonable selection of beer and cider

A lovely reception from the Landlady/ Owner/Barmaid. It makes such a difference to be greeted so nicely. Famous in Bath for the music and Bohemian chilled atmosphere. A pleasant partly sheltered garden at the rear. Which also boasts a pizza parlour. We will definitely return 😊

Returned here after a few years of absence, to see if the vibe is still there. Still a great place, with a solid vibe, but could've been a little friendlier. Staff all chat amongst themselves and with the 'flies. Definitely feels like a place for regulars, which is understandable.

Live music, live DJs, real ale, real cider, real people.

The Bell 🔔 is the place to spend money and time. Amazing atmosphere, well kept and stocked bar, great courtyard with top notch pizzas with great clean, crisp flavours. I've seen some Stella live gigs which are transportation. If your in the area your a fool to miss out.

Great atmosphere nice barman well worth a pub crawl.

It's a beautiful day and we stayed at the outside tables, it was very pleasant

Great local pub, live music 🎶 and fresh pizza!

Wonderful Wednesday evening with a live 5 piece band! Great pub, lovely staff, reasonable prices. So good that I went back the second evening of my time in bath, to have a crack at a game called billiards, which was a right laugh. TEN OUTTTTA TEN Thanking you kindly🙏🏼

Amazing place in Bath, quirky and with character, great personable service , since of humor and buzzing vibe. Not far from centre of Bath, with nice garden and cheap drinks.

Great joint. Well worth a visit.

The Bell Inn a community owned pub with over 800 share holders. A Bath institution and very popular at the weekends. Visiting in a sunny Saturday early afternoon, we found a chilled atmosphere and had time to chat to staff and fellow punters... When we returned around 9.30 in the evening the whole place was jumping! In the current CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2024, with a pop up pizza stall in the evenings. Regular music and community events, with plenty of seating in the outside area at the rear. Not an up market venue, but if that's what you want Bath had plenty of such places... But if you want a good pub with decent ale, and a friendly lively atmosphere "The Bell" is for you.

A co-op owned pub and it shows it. The bar people were friendly and the beer selection fantastic. Great pizza cooked and served onside too. Regular live music which I want to come back for to sample.

Brilliant locals pub with some great music in the centre of Bath. Friendly and welcoming.

Bath's bohemian pub. Definitely better than all the tourist traps elsewhere here. Live music, real people, pizza seller onsite.

Brilliant gig Easter Monday with Kevin Brown and The Shack Dusters. Special guest Matt Owens. ⭐✨🎸🎷🎹🥁

Great atmosphere and music, thanks Zac & Co

Nice tradition pub in bath, no airs and graces, emphasis on live music. Good selection of ales.

It's a pub. I don't think it does food. Beers good and cheap.

If you love live music you will love it here it's on Monday and Wednesday evenings and Sunday lunch time also there is a DJ Friday evenings it's worth a visit and the staff always make you welcome they sale lovely pizza

Music sounded as if it would be good but was only the soundcheck. However the barman was really rude to my husband. When he asked if they had Heineken 0 he said no then said nothing else. So my husband asked if he had anything else and he said yes, any more questions? then nothing again. Eventually he gave him a beer. Not the way to keep customers. Won't be going back.

Went for a live music event. Great venue with bags of character and very down to earth and friendly staff. Hope to be back!

Excellent pub with great music and the ramen was awesome 💯

Did not get food and only got drinks from the bar. Nice atmosphere and good live music when we went.

A magic pub, excellent music, good beer selection and great vibes x

Nice atmosphere, good on the locals for saving this pub but the charmless young lady behind the bar must be costing you a fortune and it would be a shame to let everyone else's hard work go to waste over the poor attitude of one. Hopefully this gets addressed and becomes a roaring successful pub.

Great DJ, great atmosphere, good drink on Sat 23rd December

How much more room dus want .... it gets packed out ! Great beers lovely people everyone is chilled and nice not like alot of Bath pubs that are full of phone zombies

Really great place. Nice crowd. Good atmosphere. A proper pub but with a progressive, welcoming feel and really nice customers. Didn’t have food or stay for live music but will be back to check it out. The wine and beer was pretty good!

I love this place. Live music. They have a nice beer garden. The food is nice as well as the drink selection. Definitely worth checking it out and asking for the story about the bell

Absolutely amazing food.... several nights we went in for food and everything was 100 % excellent...

Music a bit loud? And I'm a bit deaf!🤔

Good live music for a Sunday afternoon

Lovely community owned pub, great staff and a cosy vibe, 10 out of 10

Great live music pub. Check it out on YouTube, Sunday afternoons. Plus great pizza 🍕 in the garden 😋.

Lovely independent pub, cosy and perfect for a quiet pint. Prices are higher than average, though, as an independent pub this is to be expected in the current financial climate. The pub has a range of traditional pub games including a pool table. There is also regular live music. The staff are friendly and helpful. The bar has many independent ales and spirits. The Guinness is tied with Flan O'Brien's as the closest thing to Irish Guinness I've had in Bath. Would definitely recommend!

Lovely pub, great venue to watch live music in.

Really loved this pub great atmosphere music on point

Música en directo. Gente muy diversa.Te sientes de allí aunque seamos de otro país y cultura

Friendly pub with outdoor seating and pizza oven on premises

Toller Pub abseits der üblichen Touristenroute mit fantastischer Livemusik.

Fantastic local pub with well kept beer and an ace Indian restaurant

This is a great bar...community owned and complete with launderette! Regular music and welcoming inside and out.

Visiting Bath, looking for an authentic English pub, and found it in this gem. We had a local pale ale, a cider, and a diet Coke. The drinks were good; the service was prompt and friendly; the music good. We had got there too late to order pizza and decided to go look for our dinner. Otherwise, we would have stayed for another round or two.

Went early evening on a Saturday. DJ setting up but good music over the sound system. Good choice of beers.

Great atmosphere in a typical British pub with live music. We were looking for a nice way to close our day in Bath, and the bell had everything we were looking for to have an unforgettable night out.

Excellent local pub Friendly staff Excellent homemade pizza

Great pizza. Cool place to hang out.

The Bell may be THE BEST Live Music venue left in Bath! The space makes any gig a bit "intimate", esp. when crowded, but the stage is well raised so well suited to cam-phone filming / pix! Service is EXCELLENT -- Bonnie & Sophia are the superstars behind the bar, w the best smiles in the biz! ALL staff are friendly + fast service. Wide selection of good-value (fairly priced) drinks (buy one for your server!) AND a jug of water + clean glasses available at the end of the bar for those who want it. Indoor seating fills up for gigs, but otherwise is ample when just popping in for a drink when there's no gig. There's a curious / unique pool-like competitive game in The Bell. Give it a go with friends. There's seating outside, smokers will appreciate. There's also a PIZZA MAKER on-site at some hours, serving shareable eats in convenient pizza boxes. Loos inside aren't huge, but -- tip! -- there's an extra set at the back corner of the outside seating area. Parking:: not on-site; try along Walcot St itself, else park at the "Cattle market" outdoor or Podium multistorey both further down, and walk back. Wheelchair access:: Any gig I've been to, I've always seen the one guy in his wheelchair beside the stage, enjoying the music...

Chance to meet old friends. Summer Lightning to drink. AGM beforehand also quite entertaining

Suck a fun and quirky place , deffo recommend!!

Amazing pub with amazing pizza. Highly

Very interesting atmosphere and interesting music

Always lovely to be here, dancing on a night out or chatting over a jar or two on a Sunday afternoon in the secluded garden. Great spit and sawdust pub, full of wonderful familiar faces and big characters.

Definitely unique. A breath of fresh air from the many modern gastro pubs all over Bath. Nice outdoor area too, so kids and dogs can roam free (ish).

Best pub I've been to in a while

Excellent pub, had pizza from the pizza bike and it's *so* good!

Fantastic spot, great live music.

Fantastic pub. Visiting Bath and dropped in on an early Saturday afternoon. Very warm welcome by the bar staff who were chatty and down to earth. Good range of beer and pizzas looked top notch. Definitely recommend a visit.

Very nice staff and loved it there

Great pub. Great pizza. Great beer. Great crowd. Who would want more?

Decent pub hut ruined by the absolute gobsh1te behind the bar (dark hair, middle-aged, likes the sound of her own fog horn).

Really enjoyed the beer selection here! Cool music too!

Fabulous as always. Wonderful music and gorgeous pizza. Xxx

Great pub, nice atmosphere and beer, good pizza from the garden

Really great ambiance. With decent drink selection and prices. The staff are very friendly and quick to get your drinks. The live music here is really high quality and is usually the highlight of the evening.

Great pub with lots of local character

Stumbled in halfway through Akasha's set. Excellent!

Great pub, one of my favorites. They have great live music, good staff and nice selection of drinks. Proper pub. Great stuff

Great little pub, well priced and the live music was lovely too!

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Great atmosphere, good music, try it.

The Bell is community run, server a good range of beers as well as other alcohols. Bans playing at different times of the week, Wednesday and Sunday.

Warm friendly people and characterful pub. Small selection of proper beer and cider.

Excellent beer and very friendly staff

Great local pub. The staff and the patrons all having a great time. Well worth going. Not fancy, but truly authentic

A Bath treasure, the heart of 'Walcotia' . Great selection of beer,,, very good service and a warm welcome nowadays (if you last came here 10 years ago, I can tell you it is SO much better now. Live music regularly, very good pizza stall many lunchtimes. Outside seating area (and there aren't many of those in Bath).

Bought a drink at 11.15pm and was asked to leave 5 times (by various bar staff) within approximately 10min. When I said I was drinking up they told me to hurry up. Very rude staff who just want to lock up so the locals can drink. It's just a bunch of bar staff wanting to have their own private party in disregard to paying customers.

Every city has that great local pub, the one with live music and a cheery vibe to it, the one which attracts a good crowd, that you can go on a Wednesday or Sunday night and you know it'll be a good evening regardless of the day. This is exactly that pub. Top points for them having a pizza stand in the pub garden and holding live events in the back area 👍

Really friendly atmosphere with a good mix of people and some great live music. The only downer was one incredibly rude bar person who really needs to get a job in a non customer facing role, maybe lighthouse keeper or similar.

Great way to end the first night in Bath! Good vibes, good live music and people there were friendly.

Proper. Absolutely no negatives.

Had a lemonade after the half marathon

Great atmosphere, even better when dj is on

Fun place. Community pub. Live music ...country & western flavour not too loud. Friendly staff. Recommend you try...

Top tunes. Top ales. Top bar staff.

A Monday night to remember with top quality live music, great clientele and dancing. What a treat!!

Great vibe and music. Pizza out back is excellent.

Brilliant pub. Needs to be more pubs like this felt very welcome.

Oldest tavern in Bath we were told! Quaint, charming, and historic pub. The bartender was also welcoming and helpful!

Great pub, great staff and amazing beer, wow!

We always see what's on at the Bell in Bath as they have some great music a few nights a week. This community owned by pub has great beers and is a friendly real pub definitely not a chain pub!!

Definitely where the cool kids (and grownups) hangout. It's such a hipster little hideout in Bath, so easy to pass but when you do discover it it's got an instantly welcoming environment and the staff greet you with smiles and banter which makes you feel right at home. They've got a great range of things on draught at a really reasonable price for Bath. I absolutely love this place. They have a huge outdoor area for the smoker (don't judge me) and dogs are welcome! Highly recommended for the range of music nights they have on as well. The walls are lined with posters advertising old and upcoming events, something different for every weekend. So so cool!

Best pub in Bath, still a proper boozer

Friendly staff. Great live music.

Cheeky little pub. Good few taps on offer.

Fab quickly pub.. Dog friendly great staff and delicious freshly cooked pizza in beer garden can't wait to visit again when we are in Bath for a longer stay

Nice chill experience, great live music

Authentic place! Exellent band called The Great Malarkey 🤘💪💥