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Bristol keeps most of its best rooms in the Old City core, so start there and you can walk between three picks in ten minutes. Clifton, Stokes Croft, and the harbour each add one room worth the short detour. Pick by the neighbourhood you are standing in.
The Old City and King Street hold four of the six picks within a few blocks of each other, so that is the cluster to head for first. Hyde & Co pulls you uphill into Clifton, No Man's Grace sits north in Stokes Croft, and The Apple floats on the harbour. Each pick below is a top-rated room you can reach on foot from the last in its district.
The Milk Thistle is Bristol's most awarded cocktail bar, set in a Georgian townhouse off Corn Street, the Old City pick if you want the city's deepest list. Rated 4.7, $$$.
The Beer Emporium is a Belgian-and-craft-beer cellar bar a two-minute walk from The Milk Thistle, the closest second stop in the Old City cluster. Rated 4.7, $$.
The Llandoger Trow is a heritage Bristol pub from 1664 on cobbled King Street, a short walk south of the Old City core toward the harbour. Rated 4.6, $.
The Apple is a cider boat moored in the harbour, the pick to reach for if you are on the waterfront rather than up in the Old City. Rated 4.9, $.
Hyde & Co is a speakeasy hidden behind an unmarked door, the Clifton pick if you are uphill from the centre and want the most discreet room. Rated 4.7, $$$.
No Man's Grace is a restaurant-bar with a tight cocktail menu and one of Bristol's longest natural-wine lists, the pick if you are north of the centre. Rated 4.7, $$.
The complete ranked guide to the best cocktail bars in Bristol, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.
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The six rooms above are the highest-rated cocktail picks in Bristol, ordered so you can choose by which neighbourhood you are standing in rather than scroll a single ranked list. For the full ranked guide to every room, follow the link to the city guide.
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