A small independent restaurant in Bristol has received rave reviews from two national food critics in the space of a few days. Caper & Cure on Stokes Croft was first praised by Tim Hayward in the Financial Times and a few days later picked up another glowing review from Sunday Times critic Marina O’Loughlin.
Under the headline ‘A bijou nouveau bistro where the kitchen thinks big’, O’Loughlin waxed lyrical about her meal at the restaurant run by actor Giles Coram and chef Craig Summers. The influential critic whose photograph has never been published, described Caper & Cure as being ‘a handful of tables on the ground floor and basement in Bristol’s rackety Stokes Croft’.
She heaped particular praise on her main course of turbot with peas, broad beans, crab sauce, herb gnocchi. “If I had to define the place in one word, it would be generosity,” said O’Loughlin who explained to readers that the ‘treasure’ of a restaurant is ‘in Stokes Croft and not chichi Clifton’.
