Food critics at a prestigious national guide have had their say on the best restaurants and gastropubs in and around Bristol. The AA Restaurant Guide 2023 has been released, with ten eateries making the cut either in the city or in the surrounding countryside.
The 29th edition of the guide features more than 1,400 restaurants, which have all been awarded Rosettes for culinary excellence by the AA’s professional inspectors. North Yorkshire, Devon and Cumbria were named as the UK’s leading counties for foodies in the guide.
London had 172 restaurants featured this year, followed by North Yorkshire (68), Devon (59), Cumbria (57), Cornwall (42), Gloucestershire and Norfolk (38), and Hampshire (36), Suffolk (32), Kent (31) and Oxfordshire (30). In and around Bristol there were ten restaurants and pubs that made it this year, listed below.