With Bristol being home to some amazing coffee shops and cafes, it can be hard to choose where to go - but at least having so many means you don’t have to walk too far before you find one. Walking around Stokes Croft one weekday, I came across many different independents that seemed really popular with the lunchtime crowd.
Keen to try one of the many independent businesses in the area, I set out to find one that served lunch but also wasn’t too busy with queues. After wandering up and down the road for a while, the cool-looking Elemental drew my eye.
The cafe, which used to be home to a little pop-up bakery, serves coffee, sandwiches and pastries but also doubles up as a greengrocer, selling produce which has been sourced locally. The ‘non-profit community-led enterprise’ was originally started as a ‘positive local response to the arrival of Tesco and the riots in Stokes Croft' in 2011, according to a welcome message on one of the walls inside.
