The best restaurants for lunch in Bristol

This café is the perfect place to relax, have some lunch and enjoy the view. The walls and ceiling are lined with more plants than you could imagine, making it a beautiful and calming setting to enjoy your food and appreciate all the intricate details of the beautiful decor. Its ever changing menu uses locally sourced ingredients, keeping things fresh and current.

The lunch menu offers options like savoury Japanese pancake which is served with shredded cabbage, pickled ginger, aioli and okonomiyaki sauce, or tostadas tomato with the options of added bacon, crispy aubergine or halloumi. Opt for a fan-favourite of the Turkish eggs, or perhaps one of their filled sandwiches and flatbreads. With locally sourced ingredients and priority always given to sustainable and organic suppliers, you can really tell that the food here is made with love. 

This award-winning sandwich shop has five different locations in Bristol and has fast become one of the most loved lunch spots. It serves some of the most impressive looking sandwiches we have ever seen, and they taste even better than they look. With options like Italian chicken, which comes with chicken, salami, mozzarella and chilli and garlic mayo, or the rare roast beef which has sirloin steak, red onion, tomato, smoked cheddar and pepper mayo, these sandwiches are full to the point of bursting.

With 11 different house sandwiches, as well as being able to create your own, you could never get bored with the menu here. Alongside the sandwiches, these guys also serves flat breads, salad boxes, its famous homemade scotch eggs and sausage rolls, and a range of freshly made cheesecakes and desserts. Everything is made with fresh, high quality ingredients and served at a reasonable price, making this sandwich shop a much-loved staple in the Bristol lunch scene.

If you’re looking for a more glamorous setting for lunch, why not try Cosy Club? In a majestic former banking hall on Corn Street, this neo-Palladian style building has beautiful marble floors and a domed roof, and it certainly makes you feel like you’re dining in style. With a choice of the brunch menu, which is served until 4pm, a huge range of small plates or a choice of sandwiches as well as some Cosy Club mains, there’s something for everyone on this lunch menu, no matter what mood you’re in.

Their brunch dishes include classics such as their Butcher’s cooked brunch plate, American pancakes with blueberries, bacon, and maple syrup, smashed avo on toast with halloumi, and Garden Brunch with avocado & pea mint crush, and homemade rostis. While other options such as their freshly baked bread and salted butter, mozzarella & ricotta arancini with truffle and black pepper aioli, garlic and paprika prawns, buttermilk fried chicken, salmon fishcakes, British beef burgers, Flat Iron steaks, and their signature Cosy Club sandwich create a mouthwateringly good all-day lunch menu that we definitely recommend trying.

If you’re looking for something a bit more substantial than a sandwich, then Three Brother’s Burgers is the perfect place to stop and grab a quick yet filling lunch. This converted barge just off Kings Street serves up some of the best burgers in Bristol, with succulent beef patties and a range of different toppings and sides, the food here is worth the hype.

They even have an epic lunch deal on the menu meaning you can get a burger and fries for just £7.50 weekdays between 12pm and 5pm, which we think is an absolute steal. You can add toppings and customise your burger to make it to your taste, including extra cheeses, crispy or caramelised onions, gherkins, bacon, chilli, bacon, and extra proteins. With quick and friendly service, this is the perfect spot for a satisfying lunch. Add on a shake for just £5.50 and you have the lunch-envy of the break room!

If you have a bit of time to play with, we highly suggest a sit-down lunch at The Metropolitan in Clifton. The beautiful restaurant and accompanying garden are the perfect setting for a long lunch, complete with a cocktail or glass of wine, of course. Cosy up in the chic wooden dining room or dine al fresco in the sun-soaked courtyard to catch some rays during your visit.

The brunch menu caters to the day crowd, with our favourites including their ox cheek hash with gochujang hollandaise, their chilli crab brioche bun with nori hollandaise, their Korean fried chicken with peanut satay sauce and chilli mayo, and their classic French toast using homemade brioche and orange yoghurt – simply divine! We like to indulge in one of Metropolitan’s spicy margaritas or coffee negroni for a midday pick-me-up.