Café Amore — Restaurant in Bristol

Review redone, and updated.... March 2022

Ok, my previous review was purely on coffee, and service, well now I've had some food.

Sandwiches, pudding pots, pastries, toastie.

I cannot say a bad word against any of it.

Amazing value, great tasting, and really good portions.

Everything you can tell is made with fresh ingredients, and made that day (or very early mornings) and made with good ingredients.

You walk into this lovely place, and it has some old school charm about it, like it's got history.

You walk past a row of fridges containing all the fresh food, and nothing is over-packaged.

On the other side as you walk in, is like a mini kitchen doing some stuff fresh to order.

If you have chosen something from the fridges, you take it to the till, and order your drink at the same time.

We almost always order a flat white. A lovely drink, and really quite strong... Just the way I like it.

If you're sitting in, you'll be given a number tab, and it'll be brought to you.

The staff are very help, friendly and chatty.

Value wise, this place is amazing value, and easily matches any of the coffee houses, in fact they're cheaper. In those international companies, you feel sometimes as of you're making an investment, rather than buying coffee and a sandwich. Here it's different, the prices are so competitive, even with supermarkets, but better and fresher.

If you're passing, or in broadmead and fancy a nice coffee, and perhaps a lunch, I cannot recommend this place more. It's a 2 minute walk across the road (at the lights) by Tesco.

There's a good lot of indoor seating, and a reasonable amount of outside seats.

Enjoy.

UPDATE 02/05/2024

JUST HAD A LARGE BREAKFAST, NEVER BEEN SO DISAPPOINTED.

seriously. First try got sent back as COLD.

second attempt, bacon and sausage and the eggs, barely cooked. Eggs even borderline snotty.

Seriously at almost £14 for a coffee and breakfast, I expect a lot better.

Couldn't have mushrooms as someone premixes them with kale (I mean who does that) , and as I didn't want limp cabbage on my plate, I couldn't have mushrooms.

I know a fry up is a fun dish, as there are so many timings, but in over 40 years of cooking food, both at home and professionally, I've never served a borderline breakfast, not a cold one.

Maybe the chef is more pssd off and depressed than I am, I don't know, but I expected better from here, and then add the price to it, and that's a slap on the face.

I thought I'd try it to cheer myself up as my fiancee died very recently, but now I'm more depressed than before.

Sandwiches, bacon n egg muffin, great, along with potted desserts, but a fry up, is obvs beyond someone's ability today.

No pics, as didn't want...

I wish I could rate it higher. Similar to other reviews, the food was great. However, the service was atrocious. This isn't something I've ever really experienced in professional establishments and was pretty shocked it was even happening. They tried to fleece me! I ordered a big breakfast and then asked to see the ice cream menu. I said I'll think about it and order after my meal, but the woman behind the counter had already started pouring one for me. She then said "I've already started pouring it so now you need to order it". I was shocked tbh. Even if I had asked for one (which I didn't), I didn't even say which flavour I would've wanted - she just started pouring a random one out and wanted me to pay for it. I was genuinely disappointed because I was really looking forward to this place after reading other reviews. I won't be coming again.

Edit * The owner kindly apologised and recognised this as a misunderstanding in the reply to this review. I didn't like how the person who poured the ice-cream offered the ice-cream to other customers in a passive aggressive manor, however, I understand things can be lost in translation. I will adjust my review accordingly. (Originally...

I went here a few weeks ago and I put heinz tomato ketchup on my food I buy the color of it I knew it was no heinz I thought I was heinz only to find out it is not heinz, but the ketchup is in a heinz bottle, i then went to the counter and asked for ketchup they offered me another bottle of heinz I smelt it and knew it was not heinz, I was then offered sachets of cheap ketchup this ruined my experience and food. as i haf already put it on my food. I went there today 3rd November 2023 and looked at the heinz bottle they are still displaying on the tables. still not heinz so I did bot even bother putting any ketchup on my food, the food has also gone down hill in my lasagne there was barely any meat or barely any sauce it looked good before diving in but that was jus the cheese on top, it may aswell be called layers of pasta with bits of mince can barely call it a lasagne. this use to be a really good place to eat but I'm shocked. I will also be forwarding to heinz the fact these guys are promoting heinz bottles with cheap ketchup I don't think they will be to happy about this.

I grew up on heinz I can...