The Grace, Bishopston, Bristol

We arrived 7.30pm and ordered. At 8.30pm they told us they had lost our order. To be fair to them they said they would give us the meal on the house. Half the meal then arrived at 9pm. When I asked 10 minutes later when we could expect the other half the manager intimated that as we were getting the meal for free we shouldn't complain. 2 minutes later he literally threw the food down in front of me He seemed to think we should be grateful for getting a free meal. What he failed to understand that my wife and I were looking for nice night out together - not a free one!

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Refurbished and renamed since my previous review, décor wise it’s largely unchanged but now has some slate tiling on the floor and low lighting supplemented with numerous candles on the tables and window sills. Dining appears to have crept in to the front area of the pub, and a number of tables here were reserved on a recent Friday evening visit. The pub was quite busy, if not full, and this together with the harsh acoustics made it quite noisy, and conversation difficult, especially if you were sat at one of the larger tables and hence some way from your companions. There were just as many people in the garden as the pub, and this closes at 10:00pm, so quite where they were all going to go I’m not sure. The menu is all tapas apart from some “pizzettes” (small pizzas) and we tried a number of dishes between us, most of which were priced around a fiver or so. On the whole these were ok, although I’ve had nicer tapas elsewhere. I don’t think there were any of the ten dishes that stood out as being exceptional, but then again, none that we didn’t like. Beers on tap were Gem, Dirty Stop Out, Prohibition Ale and Arbor Motueka. Ciders were well represented with Stowford Press, Rosie’s Pig and Aspall’s Suffolk.

Official site of The Grace - www.thegracebristol.uk