Five Guys Burgers and Fries Bristol Clifton — Restaurant in Bristol

From before I had entered the building, I could determine that the music in there was extremely loud. During my visit, I was forced to either stick my fingers into my ears or use some torn-apart paper handkerchiefs as makeshift earplugs to shield my ears against the merciless onslaught of the evil ear-invading enemies of public hearing! (This amount of noise is dangerous for people’s hearing, even after a short period of time.) (From speaking to others that accompanied me during the visit, I gathered that the reason why the music was so loud was due to the restaurant being almost full: the loud music prevents most dawdling to free up seats. I do not understand why classical music at a safe volume was not played instead to accomplish this as the practice of using classical music is something that I have observed many restaurants in the McDonald’s chain follow.)

Due to the sheer number of ‘toppings’ chosen, my burger kept falling apart, and dripped oil onto the table almost continuously, which was partly my fault, but also possibly the restaurant’s fault from a certain point of view (allowing the customer to choose an inordinate amount of toppings such that the burger falls apart, hindering consumption is surely a push factor that will cause customers to perceive other customers who eat such burgers as messy and disgusting, decreasing the number of customers per day and therefore reducing profit in the long term).

As I did not buy or collect the food myself, I have not rated the service (you may see exactly zero stars).

Overall, the experience was well below par, considering that my experience at Five Guys in Swindon (the one in the outlet) was outstandingly amazing. To conclude, I recommend that you avoid this specific Five...

It's a decent enough burger although the bun is pretty generic and could easily have been steamed a little to make it more appetising. As for the £10.85 price tag for a double cheese burger it is certainly moving on up to the pricer end of the market. As was in the news yesterday a five guys spoke person justified the price by saying that its because of all the extra toppings you can add for free that are fresh that bumps the price up.

But whining their right mind has all 16 toppings for free? A drunk 18 year old student most likely? Although the meat patties are of a much higher standard than your average kebab van. It's basically just a way of justifying the price tag.

Yes the odd person will make use of all 16 free toppings but most likely they won't. Just adopting the same principle as subway. Although at a much higher price.

For those of you that think this is a banging burger, then think again. Its not. Its good but not great.

To compare if you want a banging burger then check out Magu over in Bath. Go there eat a burger, then come back to 5 guys.

5 Guys is definitely at the top of their game when it comes to the other mainstream burger establishments, but it's a long way off what's classed as a banging burger.

Location of the branch I visited is great though, Queens Road on the Triangle in Clifton, Bristol, which as a whole is making that strip a real foodies delight for those that like their takeaways, plenty to choose from.

If you're going to charge £10.85 at least sort...

My little girl can't always find things that she likes to eat in restaurants, but she loves a Five Guys Beef Hotdog. We like to sit in the corner window and snack on free peanuts while we wait for the cooking to happen. We like the strange alchemy of the soda machine. We like the crayons and the little white cards where we can draw pictures and compete with each other and the public at large to see which of our drawings of a Dachshund dressed as a Hotdog or Man with a Burger in his mouth with last the longest on the board. Sure, sometimes their might be an awkward silence or two, but perhaps this is the price of the deep intimacy of family life. We are together so much, that there isn't much new to discuss. As I look back at this period of my life in years to come, I wonder if it will be times like this that I remember. The three of us surrounded by the red and white chequers, held together as a unit, bonded together by the very lovely that lead to my daughter being alive in the first place. Perhaps it will be the fraught early mornings, broken sleep and worries about the future. Maybe I won't remember anything, but will be reminded of it all and brought to nostalgic tears by rediscovering a weird review I left online way back in 2024. If that's the case, I have a message for the future, not matter what is going on... Don't ever forget to be kind, to help the people around you to know that right now, in this moment......