The Victoria - Bristol, City of

Relatively new patrons have taken up residence in this little nook of a pub. We have frequented for a chilled pint on a few occasions, but thought we would try a bit of food. Their secret beer garden set on a hill is an excellent place to chill on a lovely Summer’s day. Now, as the saying goes … I’ve made more hot dinners than … well … you’ve had ‘em! So, I can say with some expertise in the matter that this Sunday lunch was superb, well portioned and home made with good attention to detail. The options on offer were pork, turkey and beef or you could have all 3, which was my choice. Melt in the mouth meat, tasty seasonal veg just everything was faultless finished off with 2 desserts a lovely apple crumble and ice cream and spotted dick and custard yummy!! We deffo think we’ve found a new watering (and eating) hole! The price was definitely comparable to other pubs in the locale. Give it a go, we really think it’s worth it.

I think the new owners need to re look at the quality of the food offered. My daughter had a burger which had nothing else in it at all no sauce, no salad. Just literally a burger and bun. Given the high quality of food across the many competitors in the area, it needs to be much better. Also the marketing people don’t want to go to an empty pub so putting posts on the local Facebook community page saying things like “where is everyone tonight?” is actually a major turn off. I’m sure this could be a really lovely pub but need some regular locals on board to start the positive jungle drums going. Word of mouth counts for a lot.

Website clearly states 11pm closing but on a recent visit with others, we were told to drink up at 9:50pm as closing at 10pm. This is so annoying when taxi has been pre-arranged. We all know about manager's discretion, but what about customer service and satisfaction. On our way out we mat four others who were about to walk in but warned them off. Won't be back. With so many pubs closing down, how can you offer a poor service like this.

After trying various pubs in the area we tried The Victoria for Sunday lunch and were not disappointed. Friendly service and amazing food cooked to perfection. Would thoroughly recommend! Only criticism was that the pub felt a little cold.

Lovely pub as a good feel about it, its dog friendly, lots of choice for drink and does the best Sunday Roast, will definitely be back