The Bristol Loaf

Very mixed experiences here in the past 3 years I've lived in the area. Sometimes coffee is delicious, sometimes it's burnt - it wasn't today thankfully. Pork sausage rolls are always a winner. Pain au choc's are huge, but you'll be left disappointed with the amount of chocolate actually found in it. I've always found it disappointing they don't have more pastries, particularly almond or fruit based. That being said, their brownies and cookies are delicious.

Today I opted for the "sweet" option of the brunch menu of a French toast with coconut sugar, peaches, lime zest creme fraiche, and mint. Firstly, change the serving to a plate, it is genuinely difficult to eat this from a bowl. As for the food itself, the peaches were hard and unfortunately not that sweet as it hadn't had a chance to ripen. Also, if you're serving mint with the dish to complement the flavours, shred it and distribute so it can be part of a mouthful rather than just chucking leaves on top that get left behind because who wants to eat whole leaves of mint. Finally, the creme fraiche wasn't zingy from the lime, it was just a very savoury flavour on what could/should have balanced with the sweetness of the peaches and the coconut sugar but overall the dish was just very savoury tasting as there wasn't enough sugar or syrup to counteract the salted butter you presumably used to fry the toast in which was unfortunate.

I would have passed this on to one of your servers today directly had they asked but she didn't - this was after I had to walk after her and actively ask her if I could pay despite seeing me waiting behind another guy who paid her for wine - I appreciate it was an incredibly busy Sunday morning service but any sort of acknowledgement would have sufficed to say "I'll be with you shortly" so I didn't feel like I was being completely ignored whilst just wanting to pay and leave. The service up to that was point was friendly and a little slow (can't be helped super busy, so not a problem for me).