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25 Bristol restaurants to visit in 2025

The Sauce in stats: 2024 in review

The best things we ate in 2024

The Three Horseshoes, Batcombe: 'Delightfully free of any notions of trend or whimsy or even globality' - restaurant review

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Fresh Bakery, Fairfax Street: 'How many hours of work must’ve been sunk into such fleeting pleasure' - restaurant review

SunRa Kitchen, Nelson Parade: 'Here the SunRa really shines' - restaurant review

The Malago, North Street: 'When dinner on North Street goes south' - restaurant review

Pizzaland, Coldharbour Road: 'Sounds like the sequel to Sausage Party' - restaurant review

Native Vine, Church Road: 'Never have I felt so held by a restaurant' - restaurant review

Sky Kong Kong, Gallimaufry: 'A manifesto on a plate' - restaurant review

Brother Thai, Cardiff: 'Easily one of my favourite dinners of 2024'

Shah's Desi Food, Easton: 'Our ancestors believed eating brain would make them cleverer. They weren’t wrong'

Other, Cannon Street: 'Quite simply, some of the best food you can get in Bristol'

Dongnae, Chandos Road: 'The best new Bristol restaurant of 2024'

The Hanoi Social at The Robin Hood: 'They only went and bloody did it'

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High Dive, Margate: 'Critics everywhere should sit up and take note'

Gorilla Thai, Gloucester Road: 'I can only presume they accidentally left the chef in Fishponds'

Dos Dedos, Bath: 'A better start to a meal has rarely been had'

The Queens, Chew Magna: 'This is an idyllic spot'

The Pump House, Hotwells: 'Some 150 years after it was built, it houses some of the best pub food in the city

Uncle Wah, North Street: 'A name change to Uncle Wah-gamamas may be apt'

Littleshop & Pantry: 'Much like the football England have been playing of late, there were flashes of brilliance'

Easton Grill House, Stapleton Road: 'undeniably a step above your average kebaby'

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Puro, Clevedon: 'Do I wish Tommy Thorn were in Bristol proper and doing something a bit more adventurous? Of course'

Beastie Baos, Kongs: 'You dim sum you lose some'

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AGORA, Borough Market: 'A Greek salad with no olives is criminal'

Lucky Strike, East Street: 'A year or two ahead of its time'

A Black Heart & Bad Decisions X Big Nath's BBQ at Root: Bad decisions indeed

Wangs X Tomo No Ramen, Montpelier: 'If this is what they’re capable of in the midst of building their restaurant, imagine what they’ll do when it’s finished'

Mangosteen, Cotham Hill: 'From the get-go, Mangosteen is easy to love'

Lilliput Farm Kitchen, Wick: 'Lilliput is ripe for Michelin Green Star pickings'

Barang supper club, The Scrandit: 'Practically euphoric'

Condesa, Whiteladies Road: 'The research trips have paid off'

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The Baffled King, Chelsea Road: 'It would make a gorgeous wine bar'

Alta Loma at Filthy XIII: 'This is exactly what doing a pop-up is for - to iron out the creases, to fine-tune the flavours, to tweak the tacos'

Desi Dera, Stapleton Road: 'Five of the best wings in Bristol for just £3 is frankly ludicrous'

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Aero Mexico, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean: ‘It’s the sort of long-life food that makes you not want to survive the apocalypse’

The Journey, St Marks Road: 'This chatty family from the foothills of Tibet have got a good thing going on'

Paco Tapas, Lower Guinea Street: 'Food this good should be protected at all costs'

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