15 addresses where Stokes Croft actually eats.
The food on this strip runs from Sri Lankan kothu roti at Nadu to obsessive charcuterie at Caper & Cure, all within a few minutes of each other on and around Stokes Croft. The Full Moon pours local IPAs and ciders alongside Fat Dad's Burger Kitchen, and Carmen Street Wine pours natural bottles with zero pretension.
15 addresses across restaurants, bars, and cafes - all in Stokes Croft.
Stokes Croft eats range from Poco's southwest-sourced small plates on Jamaica Street to Nadu's Sri Lankan and Tamil cooking, with Caribbean Croft handling Granny Ms Cat's Jamaican recipes over on the St Paul's border. Caper & Cure does charcuterie boards a few doors from Cafe Kino, and Cafe Cuba holds the corner by Turbo Island for anyone who wants their lunch with an argument.
No-frills Cuban cafe on the corner by Turbo Island with a cult local following and strong community atmosphere. People argue about it in a good way, and nobody leaves without ordering a mojito.
Tiny charcuterie and cheese spot on Stokes Croft near Cafe Kino, focused on beautifully composed boards and carefully sourced cured meats. It's small enough that you feel like you've found someone's private larder.
Granny Ms Cat's recipes anchor Katrina and Pete's menu on the St Paul's border: Stamp'n'Go saltfish fritters, curried goat, oxtail, festival dumplings, rice 'n' peas. Over 125 rums line the bar, and reggae fills the art-lined room. Order the peppered Appleton coconut steak.
Sri Lankan and Tamil cooking done with real conviction, from the team behind Nutmeg. The rum cocktails are inventive, the menu moves confidently between vegetarian dishes and fresh fish, and it's one of the strongest dinners on the Croft.
Award-winning seasonal small plates built from southwest farms, served on a narrow candlelit counter on Jamaica Street. The nose-to-tail, root-to-stem cooking is serious, and strangers reliably end up sharing wine recommendations by the second glass.
Stokes Croft drinks across registers without trying too hard: real ales in the Pipe & Slippers garden up in Montpelier, low-intervention bottles at Carmen Street Wine, local IPAs in the courtyard at The Full Moon with live sets in the Attic Bar next door. The Croft's vaulted back room still hosts the loudest nights, and Last Chance Saloon holds down the Nine Tree Hill corner with DJs until late.
A Silent Hobo mural wraps the corner of Stokes Croft and Nine Tree Hill, and inside the two levels run to church chairs, a ceiling painted like sky, and a red neon glow upstairs. Cocktails, Radical Roasters coffee, Lost & Grounded on draught, and Mike Savage spinning records.
Wine bar and bottle shop in the Stokes Croft area, opened late 2024 with a focus on low-intervention bottles and intimate, unhurried drinking. Still new enough that it feels like a local secret, but that won't last.
A proper Montpelier local with real ales and a back garden that fills up fast when the sun appears. Unhurried, unpretentious, and exactly what a neighbourhood pub should be.
Exposed brick, dark red leather, and a wall of keg beer from Wiper & True, Arbor, and Good Chemistry - no cask, if that matters to you. The 110-capacity live room and 250-cap club run alongside Ray's, which slings sourdough pizza. Community-owned since its 2025 reopening.
Wood-panelled rooms in a Grade II Listed building with 17th-century bones, plus a big courtyard, a 70-bed hostel, and the Attic Bar next door for live sets. Local IPAs and ciders pour alongside Fat Dad's Burger Kitchen, most of it sourced from Bristol breweries and distilleries.
Stokes Croft does coffee with a conscience and a roaster's eye. Cafe Kino has been a vegan workers' co-op since 2004, Lost Horizon roasts micro-batch on Upper York Street, and Elemental Collective wedges a not-for-profit grocery and bakery into the corner where Nine Tree Hill meets the main drag. The Crafty Egg and Stokes By The Orchard handle the brunch shift.
Kit, a former engineer, roasts single-origin beans on-site every Tuesday and Thursday beside a church off Upper York Street, with pour-over as the default serve. The courtyard is strung with bulb lights, and local deliveries go out by bicycle in letterbox-friendly packaging. Order pour-over and sit outside.
All-day brunch cafe at 113 Stokes Croft with strong vegan coverage, Afghan baked eggs, kimchi mushrooms, and specialty coffee in a room full of houseplants and wooden tables. They've since expanded to Fishponds and Church Road, but this is the original and it still fills up.
Brunch and coffee on the ground floor of Hamilton House, opened September 2024 by the team behind The Orchard in St George. The pancakes are excellent, weekends bring natural wine on the terrace, and it sits right opposite Banksy's Mild Mild West.
Fully vegan workers' co-op running since 2004, first on Ninetree Hill and now across the road on Stokes Croft proper. The badger bean burger and carrot cake have fueled every local activist for two decades, and the basement hosts everything from life drawing to screenings.
Not-for-profit community grocery, bakery, and coffee shop in a five-sided wedge of a building where Nine Tree Hill meets Stokes Croft, with a dragon on the roof and Triple Co Roast's Korean-built roaster running in the back. Fresh bread, local honey, greengrocery, and genuinely good pour-over all under one strange, tapering ceiling.
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