Restaurant · Bristol
Tucked onto Bristol's Christmas Steps, this is a small, quirky spot built around rotating pop-up kitchens — the menu changes with whoever is cooking, so it's worth checking their socials before you set off. That means anything from handmade pasta to modern Greek (the octopus gets particular praise) to fish and yellow curry, and the short menu is a blessing when you're ordering for children. There's a kids' menu and high chairs, and the team are unusually calm and warm — "lovely staff" comes up again and again. Prices are fair for what it is, though portions run modest, so hungry children may want pudding. Ordering works differently here: find a table upstairs first, then join the queue downstairs. It's a lively, sociable room rather than a quiet one.
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