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Jersey Lily, Clifton, Bristol
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The Fleece: Music pub with real raw atmosphere
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  • Venue for many a fine gig by up-and-coming or once-famous performers. Look out in particular for appearances by Bristol pub band K-Passa. Think Pogues with a westcountry accent and you won't be far wrong. Their gigs are a blast.

    Best not to overdress.

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Address: 12 St Thomas Street
  • Directions: Behind Victoria Street
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    The Coronation Tap: Coronation Tap - Bristol most famous cider pub
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  • This pub is one of the oldest in Clifton, and has been notorious for decades. The reason is that it sells Exhibition cider, which is sweet and tastes of harmless apple juice. But it is about 8.6% alcohol, and in fact the pub will only serve it in half-pint measures due to it being so strong. During term time the pub is rammed full of students, and it can get a bit noisy and sweaty. The fun is watching the students trying to drink 5 Exhibitions, thinking it's innocuous, and then literally falling over unconscious! This is probably the only 'must-see' pub in Bristol and even has its own website.
    You might need to go there early (i.e. before about 8pm) if you want to get a seat, or get in at all.... :-)

    No dress code, it's a normal pub. On Friday and Saturday nights they have bouncers on the doors to stop it getting too crowded, so don't be surprised if you can't get in.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: Sion Hill, Clifton Village.
  • Directions: Clifton Village, number 8 bus from the centre.
  • Website: http://www.thecoronationtap.com/
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    Cheap drinks...
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  • Well Bristol IS expensive and the drinks are going up all the time (or is it me that I am not going out that often??!!)
    Here is a list of some bars in Bristol that you can find reasonable prices

    Po Na Na
    Queens Road, Clifton (0117) 904 4445

    Bar Essential
    54 Queen Charlotte St (0117) 925 4839
    Mon-Thu 12pm-11pm; Fri-Sat 12pm-1am Sun closed
    Happy hour: Mon-Thu 4pm-8pm; DJs Fri-Sat
    Food served: 12pm-2.30pm
    Recommended dish: Club sandwich £5.45 House wine £8.65

    Bar Med
    47 King Street (0117) 922 1846 Mon-Wed 11am-12.30am; Thu 11am-1.30am; Fri-Sat 11am-2am; Sun 12pm-12.30am. Food served: All day
    Recommended dish: Chicken fajitas £8 House wine £8.95

    Tequila Max
    109 Whiteladies Road (0117) 946 6144
    Mon-Sat 5pm-11.30pm
    Recommended dish: Fajitas £9.95
    House wine £9.95 per litre

    Henry J Beans
    93-95 Whiteladies Road (0117) 904 0061
    Mon-Sat 11am-11pm; Sun 11am-10.30pm
    Food served: 12pm-8pm
    Rec dish: Burger £5.95 House wine £9.95

    I will add more as soon as I have the address and the tel. numbers

    Most of the bars want to to be well dressed, some dont want trainners.. probably it is not good for their floors (irony....)

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  • Theme: Other
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    The Hippodrome theatre: A Great Night Out
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  • Bristol Hippodrome is one of the country's top theatres and one that keeps staging major West End and Broadway productions.
    A true gem for Bristol and a great cultural refference

    Smart clothes.... you are going to a Broadway show!!!! That is an occassion to dress-up

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  • Theme: Theater
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    The Arnolfini Gallery: Contemporary visual arts
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  • The Arnolfini faces the Watershed across St Augustine's Reach linked to it by a lifting footbridge officially known as Pero's Bridge after an 18th century African slave boy but always known as the Horned Bridge because of its distinctive trumpet-like counterweights.

    It complements and overlaps with the Watershed in function - it has a specialist cinema and a very good waterside cafe, but also galleries devoted to contemporary graphic art and a performance space.

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: 16 Narrow Quay (off Princes Street)
  • Phone: 0 117 929 9191
  • Website: http://www.arnolfini.demon.co.uk/
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    Prince of Wales: Very nice, welcoming pub for all ages
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  • An honest, comfortable pub to while away an evening with friends. Lots of students in the area so very crowded in termtime. Mainly local trade outside those times.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Directions: 5 Gloucester Road, St Andrews
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    Renato's Taverna dell' Artista: Theatrical wine bar and pasta house
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  • Italian trattoria near the Theatre Royal. Very popular with the theatrical crowd from either side of the curtain, and also with BBC folk out on the razzle.

    The walls are lined with signed photographs of everybody who has ever been anybody in British theatre since WW2 - they've all either played here or passed through the Old Vic Theatre School or both.

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  • Theme: Eating and Drinking
  • Address: 19 King Street
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    The Watershed Media Centre: Fascinating media complex
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  • Bristol has long been associated with photography and the cinema even if, to its eternal shame, it fails to give due acknowledgement to Cary Grant. The Watershed is an apt facility, incorporating two cinema screens showing films you wouldn't see at mainstream cinemas, darkroom facilities for photographers, exhibition spaces and a very good cafe-bar where you can sit and watch life go by on the harbour.

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  • Theme: Other
  • Address: St Augustine's Reach (officially 1 Canons Road)
  • Website: http://www.watershed.co.uk
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    The Old Duke in King Street is...
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  • The Old Duke in King Street is a great Jazz Pub

    Strictly casual !

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  • Theme: Live Music
  • Directions: The Old Duke Pubs, Bars & Inns 45 King St Bristol BS1 4ER
  • Other Contact: Tel: 0117 927 7137
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    Creation: Creation
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  • Centrally located and starting to get popular.With lots of different themed nights.Popular with students , especially on Mondays

    The relaxed dress code throughout the week and into the weekend emphasises its concentration on the clubbing concept

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  • Theme: Dancing
  • Directions: Baldwin Street Bristol BS1 1NA Telephone : 01179227177
  • Other Contact: The layout is sensible, with an
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