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The Restaurant Guide for Wine Lovers

Bravas

79/100
  • Bristol, Bristol
  • Spanish tapas
  • By the glass
  • mid-range
  • Beta
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Bravas is a small, warm Andalucian tapas bar in Bristol cooking from a daily-changing market menu of cured meats, cheese, seafood and plancha plates. Its all-Spanish list is chosen with real knowledge and led by a serious sherry-by-the-glass programme that answers the hardest tapas — the cured anchovies, the Ibérico, the aged cheese — as fluently as any small list in the guide. It will most reward the curious drinker who wants to explore sherry properly, or to drink characterful Spanish wine at genuinely fair prices.

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Gambas Tapas Bar

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Spanish tapas

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  • By the glass
  • mid-range
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