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Chris

@PXandTarts

1 year

Onglet and chips at Cafe Cecilia. Yes the sauce could perhaps have had more peppercorns, but really it was just a means of shovelling maximum numbers of thin, crisp almost-fries and properly-ruddy-red-in-the-middle hanger steak, coarsely grained, mineral and immaculately tender.

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2 years

I find red mullet has a faint shellfish taste, so adding mussels to a creamy sauce around a couple of crisp fillets & loading the lot up on toast saturated w sauce & the molluscs' brackish, savoury juices only boosted the effect. Melting lardo was the metaphorical cherry on top.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Katz's Deli. What a place.

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Spinach and ricotta cappelletti at Cafe Cecilia.

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Salted caramel custard tart @PackHorseHay . A rather lovely tart indeed. The filling, particularly, was a work of exacting precision and artistry; the perfect level of caramelisation and balance of salt to sugar, set but still with an alluring wobble, and unimpeachably smooth.

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@PXandTarts

7 months

Fish

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3 years

A trio of pig's head croquettes with sauce gribiche at Little French. Melting strands of meaty, gravy-enriched pork in a crunchy casing rolling in the tartare-esque gribiche. Two pounds fifty!

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4 years

Final stop: Katz's Deli. Possibly the best. An institution, with reason. That pastrami: lusciously fatty, deeply meaty, juicy, primevally delicious. Snappy, perky, sour pickes. Split pea & matzo ball soups ticked off the list of things to try; next time definitely whole sandwich.

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@PXandTarts

5 years

Spinach and ricotta ravioli with sage and tomato at Marmo.

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1 year

The USP at Lucky Strike, if you can call it that, is unmolested simple ingredients. Hearty British. St John-lite maybe. Braised oxtail was presented plainly with what they called an “Orb of Joy” -Roscoff onion braised in beef stock for 3 hrs- & kale; at just £14 the priciest dish

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4 years

Patatas bravas with chorizo @GambasTapasBar . Because what sort of maniac says "no" when asked "would you like chorizo with that?". Unless it is a chocolate cake. Maybe.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

A couple of walk ins at the table opposite me @RootBristol promptly became walk-outs after declaring the menu too complicated and difficult to understand. Which left me to somehow decipher the combination of grilled sardine, chili and shallot all on my own. I think it was fish.

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@PXandTarts

10 months

Since nobody uses Twitter any more, it's barely worth wasting my time writing any sort of description but Garden of Easton's salted pork, fennel & apple salad, lemon & garlic cannellini beans & salsa verde was largely well conceived & achieved, even if the belly was a touch over.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

This prestige bacon roll was just the thing for a springtime Thurs morning: sweet, succulent & slightly fatty, utterly porcine, bacon stuffed into a fluffy milk bun, crisped on both surfaces, w plenty of butter & a lottlr lively brown sauce. Lovely stuff as ever from @JanWilsons .

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Aged beef dripping toast & anchovy @Milkwoodcdf . I can't think of an instance in which bread, fat (even better if it has the mellow bovine umami of dripping) and salty anchovy doesn't bring bonhomie.

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@PXandTarts

7 years

Gruyere & onion croquette @RootBristol . Gooey, oozy, cheesey happiness.

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Chocolate & peanut butter delice, milk ice cream, honeycomb @PackHorseHay . If a Snickers bar and a Crunchie had a lovechild and sent it to finishing school. The milk ice cream a necessary calming influence among all the rich, sticky sweetness.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Asador roast shoulder of Welsh lamb @Asador44 . Main event. Excellent, tho not cheap, nor should it be. A winning combination of charred outer edges, crispy and burnish, shielding the tender, mild meat & melting fat beneath. Helped along by a profound lamb jus & gentle salsa verde

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@PXandTarts

4 years

A forgotten joy.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Whole roast turbot, nutty little Cornish earlies and spinach swimming in butter, and tartare hollandaise at Little French. A hefty fish, full of sweet, firm, moist flesh under its sticky, gelatinous scales, and just the sort of feast I've been dreaming about. A lot.

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Help

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@PXandTarts

5 years

Finally made it to Little French for a sharing platter. Whole roast guinea fowl, wild oregano, olives, frites and aioli with a Gallic dose of garlic, ably assisted by a few crisp leaves od gem lettuce with fine herbs and anchovy creme fraiche dressing. Whole turbot next time.

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@PXandTarts

7 years

So this is a salted caramel ice cream croissant sandwich with toasted hazelnut brittle and salted caramel sauce. @HartsBakery , I salute you.

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Pedro Ximenez-braised ox cheek, caramelised cauliflower puree, jus @bar44bristol .

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Cauliflower cheese croquettes, curried mayonnaise @AliumBarry . Hard to convey the umami butteriness and caramelisation coaxed out of the humble brassica (also a potential future restaurant name…), although I'm sure a better writer ( @cleanplateblog ) could give it a good go.

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Jesus Christ

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@PXandTarts

11 months

Cornish cod, Cornish mussels, leek and brown crab sauce @ponychewvalley .

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@PXandTarts

11 months

Roast cauliflower cheese croquettes were a mainstay of @humble_onion menu, with good reason. It's hard to imagine a better combination of vegetable & dairy product than cauliflower cheese, & to encapsulate this in the form of a deep-fried snack is nothing short of wonderful. Poca

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@PXandTarts

3 years

I've been waiting for this moment for a lifetime

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Pedro Ximénez Duroc pork cheek, white beans & chard. I don't know what it was, but when I spotted this dish advertised on @bar44bristol 's social media, an immediate decision was made. Maybe it was the PX. Maybe it was the pork cheek. Maybe we'll never know for sure.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Ex-dairy sirloin at Paco. Proper bit of meat, though arguably not the best Spanish steak I've had, and missing that wonderful golden, buttery crunch fat that is as much as part of the experience as the muscle.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Gurnard, crab sauce, stir-fried vegetables @UisceH .

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3 years

A beautiful loaded flat bread from @Milkwoodcdf . A light, chewy base, all puffed up and glistening with strips of cured back fat, hiding coin-like slivers of roast mushroom, their woodiness boosted by a wild garlic drizzle & sylphine flowers. Worth the trip over the bridge alone.

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Charcoal-grilled wild Cornish seabass w summery medley of mussels, slow-cooked datterini tomatoes & agretti was objectively successful, but it started to go downhill w charcoal-grilled Iberico bavette overcooked so barely any pink remained, let alone the desired sultry rosy-red.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Deep-fried baby squid with pickled cucumbers and almond tarator, a nutty, garlic paste with which to anoint the crispy little suckers @soukkitchenbris .

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@PXandTarts

4 years

A pile and a half of fried aubergine with molasses @GambasTapasBar . One of my most consumed dishes in Bristol over the past few years. It's the contrast of crunch and squidge in the batons and the syrupy sweetness and confident saltiness in the treacle that make it so compelling.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Scallops in sauternes butter. Little French. You have been missed.

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@PXandTarts

11 months

They weren't Bristol's first pizzeria to put macaroni cheese on a pie, but @BerthasPizza did it best: @Alp_Mac mac & cheese, salchichón, raclette, pangrattato, dill pickle, chive. It's one you might struggle to finish being, effectively, two meals in one, but you'd regret nothing

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Dessert of the year so far.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Chongqing xiaomian with crispy duck at Great Chongqing. I vehemently approve.

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@PXandTarts

1 month

Lamb belly isn't a cut of meat you would typically consider dainty but Bar 44's rolled breast, stuffed with a wild garlic and caper slurry and plonked next to half a shallot proudly glazed in lamb fat and PX balsamic, which unravelled with a certain elan, was far from rugged.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Morels, egg yolk, wild garlic. Paco Tapas (no longer on Twitter, sadly). Reminiscent of spring morning woodland walks; earth, damp, leaves and a golden sun.

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Crispy duck hofan noodles looking absolutely spectacular on a Monday night at old favourite Great Chongqing. Consistently one of the best restaurants in Bristol, and knocks it out of the park for value too.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Get one sweet, tender scallop. Wrap it in fatty lardo. Grill til it crisps and releases it's salty, porky elixir. Perfection. Actually, get two. No...wait...

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@PXandTarts

5 years

Three treasures (char siu roast pork, Hong Kong crispy pork belly, roast duck) with rice @WokyKo Jing Xu.

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4 years

A hit and miss meal overall from @BMezze but I enjoyed this decadent kharouf mehshi: tender, supple lamb shank atop buttery rice spiked with nuggets of minced lamb and scented with transporting wafts of cinnamon and clove. And chunky enough to make a quality sandwich the next day

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Thoroughly heartwarming article on Tess from @boxebristol 's efforts during lockdown. I hope you got to go for that bike ride!

The people making a difference: ‘I started a food bank – and it changed my life’

In lockdown, restaurateur Tessa Lidstone made and delivered 2,500 meal boxes to vulnerable people. Now it is her turn to be treated

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Aged Hereford beef sirloin, grilled romano peppers, fries, green sauce. Some good fire cooking going on @ProvenanceKitch in sleepy Cambridgeshire, which seems to be going through a bit of a renaissance w Restaurant 22, Fin Boys, Vanderlyle & MJP all opening in the last few years.

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Tart

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Crispy courgette, lemon agretti and basil with garlic mayo @RootBristol . Immaculately fried, a thin shroud of shatteringly crisp, salty batter barely protecting the still vibrant monk's beard and verdant, slightly squishy squash within.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Chocolate mousse, toast and olive oil at Paco Tapas. Dainty and delicate.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Lona are now offering takeaway. This is definitely a lockdown boon. Went with Round 1 as sagefully recommend by @edfiasco (knobbly kufta - juicy with lamb fat and attentively spiced - charcoal-licked chicken wings and blistered, puffy naan particular favourites) and Mixed Mezze.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Cambridge burnt cream tart, a crackly, blistered surface shattering into lusciously smooth, caramelised custard, like a thin layer of ice over a puddle @GardenHouse_Cam . Proof that any dessert can be improved by making it into a tart. Unless it is already a tart. Maybe even then.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

A generous pile of delightfully puffy sourdough flatbreads w a sprinkle of Maldon. Possibly the best flatbreads in Bristol, perfect for dredging through herb butter, roasted cauliflower puree, alioli, pine nut tarator, or simply ripped into rags & stuffed straight into one's gob.

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@PXandTarts

2 months

And what prompted an hour's drive from Bristol were the frankly outrageous-looking croissant bombs, layers of laminated pastry fashioned into doughnut-shape and piped and primped with fillings and toppings, this one with banana and salted caramel, toasted meringue and Brazil nuts

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Fire roast langoustine, bisque. Casamia. Simple; sweet.

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@PXandTarts

11 months

Here we go

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@PXandTarts

5 years

A mound of grilled sourdough with coarse roasted garlic hummus and nicely smoky baba ganoush @muinobristol .

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Superb takeaway from oft-neglected favourite Jean's Bistro. Soft, supple BBQ beef slipping away from it's smoky bark and tender, meaty chicken thigh with a trio of chili sauces (one sweet, one spicy, one packed with fermented umami tang), and mouthpuckeringly sharp tum make hoong

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Aubergine!!!

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Muu Hong at Plaza Khao Gaeng in Arcade Food Hall. Pork belly braised into wobbly submission, the sweet fat moulding into and around the unrepentantly tender meat, and surrounded by its sticky, caramelised reducing braising juices of dark soy, and a gentle peppery, anise warmth.

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@PXandTarts

5 years

The famed tongdak at Bokman. Charcoal rotisserie chicken, stuffed with rice - sticky, moistened, glistening from the bird's surrendered juices - rendering the skin crackled & golden like autumn leaves, the meat taut but supple. Gochujang & honey mustard offer funk & sticky warmth

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Second @GambasTapasBar trip in 2 days for harbourside tapas treats. Pan con alioli, a duo of crisp-shelled, wobbly chorizo croquetas -amber bechamel imbued w sausage's paprika charms- & cheeky little calamares with more of that pungent alioli. Fried aubergine also featured later.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

A second deceased favourite, and the first of the three to go. Ate the whole menu for my last meal at Birch, and my only regret was not doing that every other time I went.

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@PXandTarts

4 years

Quail, burnished and bronzed, and plumped with a genius stuffing of sobrassada and dates - fat and spice tempered by fruity sweetness, both imbuing essential moistness into the bird's lean, delicate meat - at Paco Tapas.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

First up in @BerthasPizza 2021 collaboration series (£5 on orders over £25 going to @FareShareSW ) consisted of buttered leek, confit duck egg yolk & Cornish Gouda on a truffled white base from @boxebristol . Like a cheesey leek pie on a pizza. And smoky Umami Bomb: always a winner

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Pi Shop "Iberico". A sloppy masterpiece; spiced Iberico pork ragu & charred pickled Roscoff petals enclosed in the most puffy, billowy, blistered dough out there, boasting such incredible depth of flavour & chew you'd happily demolish a plateful w Domino's-luxe garlic & herb dip.

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@PXandTarts

11 months

Steak & HPA at new The Clifton was the best pie I've had in Bristol since the heady days of Wallfish & Birch; the crust biscuitty & brittle around the edge, softly buttery in the centre, & blanketing a quagmire of chunky, spoonable beef. Dauphinoise and hispi completed the set.

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1 year

Rabbit and quail pithivier, celeriac, smoked truffle potato puree @MJPTheShepherds .

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@PXandTarts

6 years

Those things on the left... 'nduja waffle fries @ooweediner . Yup.

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1 year

Mutton chops, rimmed w properly rendered golden fat, glistening & crackling w salt, daringly flush within and with an intensity of aroma & flavour that possesses your mind & thoughts, resting in a pool of brown butter. Lemon for squeezing if you want it. Simple. Incredible. Erst.

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@PXandTarts

11 months

Custard tart @JanWilsons came from the expert hand of an ex-Manoir chef who apparently practiced 3 lemon tarts a day in the run up to National Chef of the Year & it showed. Strawberry & jurancon sorbet & Cheddar strawberries marinated in anise hyssop syrup radiated with florailty

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1 year

Absolute classic wintery emotions from voluptuous (not a word often associated with celeriac) puree, almost satin-sleek cavolo nero & briskly refreshing apple, w/ a hefty slab of pork belly to ding things off and anchor it all together at Cafe Cecilia, where they know how to feed

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@PXandTarts

5 years

Mushroom tart, 4 year old Cornish gouda @JanWilsons .

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Bread and charcuterie @JanWilsons . We may have asked for top ups of their chewy, dense-crusted sourdough and spreadable-cheese-cultured-butter 3 times. Ruby red coppa, the fat deliquescing upon contact with the tongue leaving behind a silky sheet of pork & umami, was better still

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Tonka bean & Irish whiskey canele, squidgy within a glassy, sugared shell to end my lunch of 2022. All of this for £25 is frankly a joke. I'm glad most of those around me were going full tasting to subsidise my parsimony & hopefully keep @JanWilsons , Bristol's jewel, going strong

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4 years

Yuzu meringue pie, Casamia.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

So I've finally, sort of, starting using Instagram cos it seems everyone else is...

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Burrata, golden raisins and capers at Double Red Duke in Oxfordshire.

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2 years

Bullinada at Lido. A richly garlicky Catalan fish stew, much like bourride, here featuring Cornish monkfish, wild Atlantic prawns, clams, mussels, fennel & potatoes.

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2 years

Buttermilk fried chicken thigh, tarragon mayonnaise, pickled girolles @CorRestaurant .

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10 months

Despite the understandable clamor to want to visit new openings asap, it is perhaps best to allow somewhere a few weeks to hit their stride. I gave Smokestak ten years before I finally descended on them for these crispy ox cheek cubes with anchovy mayo, and it worked a treat.

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5 years

Cargrilled sardines with sobrassada, capers, parsley & lemon @muinobristol .

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2 months

We have many excellent bakeries in Bristol - Hart's, Farro, Catley's and Wilson's Bread Shop are personal favourites - but I can't remember ever having a better cinnamon bun than this coiled knot, soft and buttery but slightly caramelised on the base from Ty Melin in Abergavenny.

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2 years

Local venison treated sympathetically @PackHorseHay in both bijou rack -rosy pink in the centre, as tender as you like- and the offal made into a gently spiced faggot w chunks of fat for flavour & lubrication. Black garlic ketchup & mushroom sauce enhanced a forest floor ambience

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Crispy pork at Nice Spice was exactly that; a resounding crunch protecting unctuous meat where the striated fat had partially melted and jellified, becoming almost gummy, though the lacquered duck with wobbly fat and gamey meat was better still. Roast pork completed the triple.

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3 years

PSA: @GambasTapasBar are offering takeaway aubergine fries (and more) today and this weekend. Get on it.

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Where are we?

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@PXandTarts

1 year

Despite a tempting array of eclectic, seasonal dishes, the dips (previously arrestingly smoky, velvet baba ganoush or sweet potato, cumin & tahini) at Souk are always a highlight, especially this tahini-rich hummus with Turkish burnt chilli butter pooling enticingly in its centre

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2 months

From the most tempting pub menu I've seen in years, breast and kidney of spring lamb alongside saddle and cutlet was a siren call to me. Only a bonus sweetbread or brain could've enticed me more. Clotted cream mash sealed a deal that was already rubber-stamped and non-refundable

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3 years

Chocolate and salted caramel tart at Bristol Lido.

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6 months

Suckling pig was suitably thin-skinned, fatty and deliriously tender, only one of which also applies to me, standing proud as 2 slabs on a life-affirming fabada asturiana; white beans swollen w meaty goodness & laced w much of the rest of the pig: chorizo, morcilla, porky titbits

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@PXandTarts

2 years

Steak tartare and egg yolk on grilled bread at Marmo.

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@PXandTarts

3 years

Potato bread, hot honey, pancetta at Sonny Stores. Salty, crisp and spongy, with a pokey little chili to attempt or not, as you see fit, and a little bitter-sweetness from the more gently spicy honey. A bar snack nonpareil with a dry white, like here, or, almost certainly, sherry

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5 years

Mandoo at Bokman. Whopping parcels of minced pork and beef, tofu and slivers of chive and courgette. More subtle and delicate than the preceding punchier dishes, perked up with sesame-soy dipping sauce.

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4 years

Grilled bavette, bone marrow, smoked salt, anchovy and chips. My last meal at Wallfish. December 2018. RIP.

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6 years

Shout outs for @boxebristol and @JanWilsons and Bristol in general in Jay Rayner's round up of the year

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5 years

Ruggedly beef flat iron with herb butter, smoked béarnaise, and peppercorn sauce (more beefy and less creamy than usual, and certainly no worse for it) - because you can never have too much lubrication - and what are now inarguably the best chips in Bristol @TheCauldronRest .

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4 years

I braved the weather for my first taste of @GambasTapasBar 's sticky-sweet, salty, crispy-squidgy aubergine fries with molasses in months, and it was worth every drop of rain rolling down my face. Croqueta of wobbly tarragon-scented bechamel studded w octopus & crab a further boon

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