The Llandoger Trow — Restaurant in Bristol

Best place to stay and eat in Bristol, by far! This 16th or 17th-century Inn appears in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island as the place where Jim met Long John Silver. Almost every building in this ancient street is Listed and preserved by Government authority. This street accommodates probably the world's oldest professional theatre that's still open: Bristol's Old Vic, which almost exactly matches Shakespeare's Rose Theatre because both had Master Carpenter architects (James Saunders &John Griggs, respectively) who both planned them with matching traditional dimensions and geometrical layout dating back millennia. Bristol's Old Vic stages strikingly genius productions because as a performance space it compares so strikingly with Shakespeare's. This is not far from the Tobacco Warehouse Theatre, one of the best Fringe venues in Bristol City. Magnificent, beyond compare and one of my favourite places in the world. Enjoy and remember its...

I have been here a few times on a recent holiday to Bristol to have a refreshing drink after a long walk, and it was a nice surprise to find some good music playing in one of the side rooms on a Saturday night. What I didn’t appreciate is being accused of taking a drink I ordered but never received. I ordered 3 drinks and was served two. I asked for the 3rd to be told i had already been given it! What? Where would i hide it? My jeans pocket? After a short showdown a new drink was poured and i paid for the 3 drinks i eventually got. If the drink was poured and left on the bar then clearly someone else stole it. I didnt see it so i can’t say for sure it was poured or not as i was distracted by my husband handing a phone in he found on the bench. Im not paying for a drink i didnt get, no matter how nice your aladdin dress is. That kinda put a dampness on the evening tbh and we left after and won’t be back...

Historic pub with links to Daniel Defoe and Robert Louis Stevenson. Fantastic old building with lots of character. Has reinvented its self as a very popular real ale pub. Incredibly busy on the Saturday night I visited. If you don't like crowds probably best to visit earlier in the day. Very good selection of beer, the staff manage to cope very well with the large numbers. Only plastic glasses when visited. In the current CAMRA Good Beer Guide 2023. (So crowded found it difficult to photograph, the painting is from their advert in the local CAMRA magazine). If you want a pub that is full of life on a Saturday this is the place to...