Pizza 1889 — Restaurant in Bristol

This place? An elite-level budget date spot—Michelin stars be damned. Sure, there are no scented candles, but who needs jasmine when you've got the seductive aroma of stonebaked pizza and a front-row seat to the chaotic ballet of the local drive-thru queues? It’s like Shakespeare in grease-stained motion.

As you smugly watch poor souls in cars arguing over cold chips and wrong milkshake orders, you’re inhaling the euphoric scent of oven-blistered dough that could honestly qualify as an emotional support aroma. And when that first slice touches your tongue—forget cloud nine—you’re hurtling through a wormhole to Planet Oregano.

At the same price as a sad soggy meal elsewhere, this glorious cheesy triangle is not just food—it’s a lifestyle. Plus, with their app you get loyalty points (translation: one step closer to becoming Pizza Royalty). Fair warning: it's objectively better eaten on-site. Something about the ambience of sizzling toppings and faint echoes of bowling pins next door just hits different.

Go for the meal deal—it’s a full culinary workout. Perfect for fuelling up before you hit the cinema, get schooled at the arcade... or do a stealthy Lidl shop where you pretend to need “just milk” but emerge with three cacti and a novelty inflatable flamingo.

If your pizza lands first? Guard it like a hawk in a chip shop. Your companions will try to pilfer a slice. They’ll employ distraction techniques like, “Look! A celebrity dog on a scooter!” Do not fall for like I have done a number of times. Normally I always share my food, but here my rules...

This place has changed, and not for the better, this was the first time I’ve been back here for quite a while. It used to be my go to for pizza but I’m not sure what’s happened here. Pizza was bland and below mediocre. Is it the ingredients? Either way I would not recommend this place at all based on my recent visits.

Determined not to write this place off right away I returned, and when ordering I was told I couldn’t have what I asked for because it was “a rip off” and not worth the money, I was then told what I would be given instead. Service was poor, rude and frankly quite bizarre, and that really pissed me off. You don’t deserve the business and other places that really make an effort and care about their food and customers do. You made me feel like an idiot and made no effort to correct the fact that I was obviously a little confused by the situation.

So that’s it for these guys I’ll never return or recommend. What happened guys, and how can you go from being so good to being so bad? There are now plenty of other wood fired pizza places in Bristol that really are phenomenal, this is one...

I've ordered garlic bread, garlic bread with mozzarella, Italian ham and Italian spicy salami with truffle mayo and garlic mayo.

I don't know if it was a mistake on the Pizza 1889 side but garlic bread with mozzarella has no mozzarella or it has got that much that I can't even see. Both garlic breads are just a waste of money: very dry, without any flavour from the garlic, tastless.

Both Italian ham and Italian spicy salami were tasty but nothing special. Spicy salami pizza built the whole spicy from chilli and not from salami which was disappointing.

Mayos were also alright and probably homemade but it's not even close to dips from other pizza shops which are also making dips by themselves.

I tried Pizza 1889 a couple years ago in Broadmead and it was alright but nothing special. I gave it another chance and it feels like a worse experience...