The best restaurants in Clifton Bristol, City of South West

This is a great little bar, the beer is excellent. The choice of Belgian Beers is fantastic, as well as a few local ones too. Especially if you stumble upon it during one of the beer festival weekends. The Landlord, staff, and locals are great too, a happy place, full of people who enjoy a good beer, and the food is top notch ..... what's not to like 👍. Highly recommended by ourselves, we will return, (and we come all the way from North Lincolnshire!!). The Portcullis is always on our Bristol list of pubs to visit. 😁

Decent prices for pints in Bristol, good choice of ciders and beers!

Disappointing Experience – Unacceptable Customer Service After hearing many positive things, we were excited to visit this restaurant, hoping for a wonderful dining experience. Unfortunately, our visit was nothing short of shocking. As someone with two years of experience in hospitality, I rarely complain, understanding that mistakes can happen. However, the treatment we received on this occasion was unacceptable. Firstly, we ordered our starters, but about five minutes later, the waitress returned to inform us that they had run out of calamari—an issue we were happy to accept. However, she didn’t offer a menu to help us choose an alternative. This lack of initiative was frustrating and unprofessional. When our main courses arrived, two of us had ordered the same dish—vodka pasta—yet one of the plates was served completely cold. We were told that a fresh one would be made, but when it arrived, it was placed in front of us by the manager with no apology or acknowledgment of the mistake. The pasta was clearly just reheated in the pizza oven, as the plate was scorching hot, not freshly prepared. When we questioned this, we were told, “We don’t even have a microwave,” which felt irrelevant, given the visible pizza oven. Despite this, we accepted the dish and continued our meal, as it was already quite late, and we didn’t want to further disrupt our evening. The situation worsened when two of us stepped outside and encountered a chef who was already outside. He rudely shoved one of my friends out of the way, stating, “It was because you were in my way.” This occurred as my friend was standing near the door, trying to avoid the rain. Instead of asking politely or giving him a chance to move, the chef aggressively pushed him. This behavior was completely uncalled for and highly inappropriate, especially considering that we were paying customers. To make matters worse, when one of us tried to move past another staff member (who had witnessed the incident), the staff member blocked his path and then accused him of “harassing” them, claiming to have CCTV footage of the situation. This was, without a doubt, the worst dining experience we've ever had, and it’s particularly disappointing because the restaurant had so much potential. The lack of professionalism, poor customer service, and disregard for basic courtesy not only ruined our experience but most likely disrupted the dining experience of others as well. The underlying issue here seemed to be the chef’s refusal to accept that the meal served was not up to standard, especially given the price we paid. While they did offer to take our entire food bill off, in my opinion, we should not have been charged at all. We would not recommend this restaurant to anyone, and they need serious improvements in both food quality and customer service.

Sunday lunch was lovely well worth the money the sausage and mash was also good sadly we had to wait over 30mins for the meal to arrive and 40mins after we finished our main meal for the dessert also had to ask twice where it was, my guest had there desserts 1st and were finished by the time I had mine, we were then pushed for time so did not check the bill as we should have, I think we were over charged unless a coke and orange juice cost over £20, although I enjoyed the food I would think twice about going again

Excellent experience quality food and excellent atmosphere together with faultless service Food had very good flavours and not over priced good portions Well worth a visit I would suggest that you pre book as it was very busy even at early evening

Placed a £40 order from daliveroo foid came damaged in the cartoon leaked all through the bag on top.of that the and tasted bland no spice what so ever and part of the order was missing..... only recived my partners order mine was missing ontacted the restaurant to have a replacement order they refused to collect and replace the food .and wouldn't take responsibility for any of the issues raised .. including the way the food.was cooked as it cancelled from there restaurant. They wouldn't refund and told us to.contact daliverro we contacted them.and the basically they said the same.thing that it was not there responsibility no refund was offered or credit I'm disgusted with the way the handeld my complaint customer care was verry poor. I regularly orders from.the thease online restaurants and the realy have dony have good people skills and verry poor customer care service it's disgusting how a restaurant can sell food in such alow quality and refuse to do.anything about the food they proved we've lost out on nearly £50 no food refund no solution We have just had to order food from a Chinese takeaway when originally we fancied Indian what we have just reordered came to half of the price and least with this takeaway I know whY I'm getting good quality food not lime joy raj the worst experience iv ever had DO NOT ORDER FROM.THEASE PEOPLE DISCUSTING FOOD AND TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE

Pretty nice good, very lovely serving staff. The venue was a little hot in temperature for my liking but we asked if they could open the door and they did very kindly to allow a breeze in. Great wine selection too. For a more high end meal out it’s a good option, especially if you have the AMEX dining credit to use.

Lovely refit, very friendly staff and the food was good upmarket 'pub grub'. Would recommend and would revisit again.

Three of us, yet again, had an outstanding meal at Cote in Clifton last evening. The food was excellent, the wine delectable but the care taken by all the staff, without exception, put the final touch on our evening. Thank you all at Cote! Christopher.

Fantastic Sunday lunch at the weekend - beautiful roast beef and a great array of delicious vegetables. Felt it was good value for the quality and the quantity! Friendly welcome.

I feel very lucky to have this establishment in my life

A brilliant afternoon tea in Bristol! My friend was visiting from the US and I wanted to give her an authentic English afternoon tea experience and this hit all the marks. The scone was delicious and the sandwiches were great, catering for both meat eaters like myself and my veggie friends. Our server Bethan was super friendly, and was very attentive to needs of refills on tea and coffee. Thank you so much!

Viaje familiar el viernes por la noche. La comida y el servicio eran excelentes! Un saludo especial a nuestra camarera (Lauren). Nos encanta comer fuera y a menudo llevamos a nuestros hijos (3 & 5 ) con nosotros. Lauren era tan amable y era genial con nuestros hijos. Gracias. ¡Aplasta la hamburguesa y Taco estaba golpeando! Bien hecho Milk Bun

Vinimos aquí para el día de San Valentín como lo hacemos todas nuestras grandes ocasiones en el raj de la alegría y la comida era tan increíble como siempre. Nos encanta especialmente el pollo tikka shezani que es uno de nuestros favoritos, absolutamente precioso e incluso nos dieron una rosa al final de la comida que fue un toque tan encantador. Servicio siempre brillante y personal amable.

Very loud and crowded for dine in but the service and food were tasty but not necessarily unique.