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while the masala dosa (rice-flour pancake stuffed with potato curry), at just £2.50,
makes a meal in itself.
4 Byron Place, Clifton.
&
0117/927-6864.
www.keralagroup.co.uk. Main courses £2.95-£6.95. AE, MC,
V. Daily noon-3pm and 6-11:30pm (10:30pm Sun).
Pieminister
TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Bristol's very own pie shop sells
scrumptious savory pies to eat in or take out. The menu offers nine pies, including
minty lamb (lamb, carrot, swede, mint, and rose wine), the moo & blue (British beef
steak with red-wine gravy and stilton), and the veggie Heidi pie (goat's cheese, sweet
potato, spinach, red onion, and roast garlic). All are made from fresh produce and
free-range meat, and crammed inside a thick crust of butter-rich pastry. There's a
smaller branch at the Glass Arcade, Corn Street (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm).
24 Stokes Croft.
&
0117/942-9372.
www.pieminister.co.uk. Pies from £3.75; pie, mash, and gravy from
£5.75. AE, MC, V. Mon-Sat 11am-7pm; Sun 11am-5pm.
Shopping
The biggest shopping area in Bristol is
Broadmead
(www.bristolbroadmead.co.uk),
mainly pedestrianized with branches of all high-street stores, plus cafes, restaurants,
and the
Galleries
(www.galleriesbristol.co.uk) shopping center at its heart.
Cabot
Circus
(www.cabotcircus.com) is another huge shopping center with a similar range
of tenants and the Showcase Cinema de Lux (www.cinemadelux.co.uk). In the adja-
cent
Quakers Friars
open-air piazza, you'll find smaller and more exclusive design-
ers. For more cutting-edge fashion try
Park Street.
In
Clifton,
the Georgian suburb where houses are interspaced with parks and gardens,
you'll find a wide array of shops selling antiques, arts and crafts, and designer clothing.
Closer to the center is
St. Nicholas Market
(www.stnicholasmarketbristol.co.
uk), which opened in 1745. It's still going strong, crammed with independent sellers
of antiques, memorabilia, handcrafted gifts, jewelry, and second-hand clothes.
The
Bristol Blue Glass Factory & Shop
(
&
0117/972-0818;
www.bristol-
glass.co.uk), at Unit 7, Whitby Road, Brislington, has been creating high-quality glass
products for 400 years. Factory tours and glass-blowing demonstrations (free) take
place daily.
Guilbert's Chocolates
(
0117/926-8102;
www.guilberts.com), 16-17 Small
St., has been hand-crafting luxury chocolates since 1910.
Entertainment & Nightlife
THE PERFORMING ARTS
The
Bristol Old Vic,
King Street (
&
0117/987-7877;
www.bristololdvic.org.uk),
is the oldest working theatre company in the country, known for its musicals, traveling
shows, and plays. The largest concert venue is
Colston Hall,
Colston Street
(
&
0117/922-3686;
www.colstonhall.org), which hosts everything from touring
rock bands to alternative comedy and classical music.
The
Tobacco Factory
Raleigh Road, Southville (
&
0117/902-0060;
www.
tobaccofactory.com), is a more dynamic studio theatre (it also hosts a cafe/bar, a
Sunday market, and live music on Sun evenings). Tickets are cheaper than at the Old
Vic, typically less than £10.
On Harbourside,
Arnolfini
, 16 Narrow Quay (
&
0117/917-2300;
www.
arnolfini.org.uk), is one of Europe's leading centers for the contemporary arts, with
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