As a matter of survival, Bristol restaurateurs had to come up with all sorts of ingenious ideas during the pandemic. Many went down the delivery or takeaway route, others concentrated on cooking kits so customers could replicate their favourite dishes at home.
Alison Brown decided to do something quite different at her long-established Clifton Village restaurant Fishers. She took a few tables out of the ground-floor dining room and replaced them with a huge fresh fish counter.
She even cut a hole in the front wall so she could sell seafood to the locals as well as takeaway fish and chips. The restaurant may have been forced to close for a while due to restrictions but at least the village gained a fishmongers and additional chippy.
