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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Caroline Davies

‘Worth the wait’: Sunday lunch at the Bristol pub with a four-year bookings backlog

Sam Gregory serving Sunday roast at the Bank Tavern in Bristol
Sam Gregory serving Sunday roast at the Bank Tavern in Bristol. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian

If anticipation heightens pleasure then diners at one Bristol pub must be ecstatic by this point. With customers waiting up to four years to sample its award-winning meals, the Bank Tavern in central Bristol looks to be one of the hottest tickets not just in town but anywhere.

So popular are Sunday roasts at this 19th-century pub that it long ago closed its reservation system to new bookings. Only the very patient, lucky few have been able to secure one of the just seven tables inside for its famed Sunday roast sittings.

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