The Ashville Steakhouse — Restaurant in Bristol

I cannot recommend this place highly enough, from the moment we arrived to the moment we left the experience was absolutely first class , we were staying as B and B guests and had not reserved a table for eating but on arrival felt we would like to eat in , unfortunately all tables were taken and it soon became clear as to why , The owner on recognising our disappointment said that we were able to sit at the bar and eat if we were happy to do so and I'm so pleased that we did as the meals we were served were nothing short of excellent , perfectly cooked and beautifully presented and in my opinion very reasonably priced , however our experience did not end there as the owner had already been kind enough to order a taxi in advance for our trip to the Hippodrome but the taxi company had let us down and we were looking highly likely to be late, unflustered he managed to get us another getting us to the avent in the nic of time . The room was warm inviting , well maintained very clean and due to the location offered a great night's sleep with no noise as usually experienced in the heart of a city . Breakfast was also excellent, quality food perfectly cooked and presented . Now to mention the staff . friendly , professional , welcoming and fun and as for the owner a truly fantastic host with great people skills running a great establishment for the last eight years clearly loving what he does as it comes across in all he does . Finally to say that we will no longer be looking to stay anywhere else when visiting Bristol why would we at £70 a night with breakfast it's a no brainer ! Finally if you do stay and want to eat in the evening book a table as I've said they sell out fast for obvious reasons , only downside to my review is that I don't have more stars to give . GO YOU WONT BE...

I have been to The Ashville on several occasions and have always been pleased with the food and service. However, this time - bringing my family visiting from Mexico - I was deeply disappointed.

We were seated on time but the table was not set and nothing appeared to be ready. We waited for almost 10 minutes whilst noting that larger group of seven had their table prepared. Once their table was set one of the waitresses handed us the menus but showed no knowledge of our preorder despite arranging it over a month in advance. She had to check (a further 5 minutes) and confirmed that they had our preorders.

After choosing our starters, we decided to order them first and then our mains. The reason for this was that only I spoke both Spanish and English so needed to time to translate the menu.

Shortly after the waitress took our order for starters, a senior member of staff - possibly the owner - interrupted us and asked us to order everything at the same time effectively giving us a time limit to finish. He even asked us if we had a problem with this which we felt was unnecessary and rude.

When we eventually received cutlery, it was literally dropped onto our table on a plate with three serviettes for five people.

Our main course was served after 1 hour and 16 minutes which we felt was excessive particularly as we were persuaded to order everything at the same time.

When the food did arrive, the steaks were overcooked (medium requested) and one of the...

The Asheville is a small local resteraunt with good food if your steak and burgers type of person the staff seem friendly enough and our server was attentive and let my wife have a wine taste before ordering. I had a nice onion soup to start and sirloin steak while my wife had a fillet which she thoroughly enjoyed. It was my birthday meal and I only have one gripe which is that we were about to order desert and who I can presume was the manager came over and told us that we had to leave the table because they needed it back and we could eat desert at the bar which we didn’t really want to do. he was a nice enough guy, I was a bit disappointed as our booking was 6:45 we were on time and got seated about 6:50pm then at 8:10pm asked to vacate because there were people waiting for the table which isn’t really enough time to enjoy all three courses so unfortunate I never did get to try the cheesecake. 😭. I can appreciate resteraunts need business but having people waiting at the bar for our table is a little off putting so had to get up and leave with our drinks. Not to let my experience put people off because I’m guessing you would get more time if there are more of you it’s not a negative review but I would of liked time for a desert and a coffee after instead of finishing my main then having to get up and leave the table. Unfortunately not just this one but a lot of resteraunts are going for foot fall than experience and this did spoil...