Twenty years ago, North Street was a very different picture from how it looks today, now swelling with cafes, beer taprooms and clothes shops. There certainly wasn't anything offering smoothie bowls and fresh juices like the new health food cafe Nook.
This latest addition to the high street is the cafe's third site in the region after seeing success in Frome and Bath. Owner Millie Clifford previously said she was captivated by the vibrant, healthy food she was eating in Australia and wanted to bring that to the UK.
Nook took over the old site of Bravo's English & Caribbean Takeaway, which moved to Easton, and a stark example of the changes around Southville in recent years, with North Street once referred to as the most gentrified area in Bristol. A few hundred metres away lies East Street, which is exemplary of what North Street once was.
