Restaurants / Reviews
Chilli Daddy
The queues stretching from Chilli Daddy’s stall on Wine Street on Friday lunchtime are always some of the longest at the market.
Since July last year, permanent premises have been open in a former shop on Perry Road and now the BBC Food & Farming Awards nominees have appeared on Baldwin Street.
A lick of their lurid lime green colour scheme signifies their arrival, as does the rather chaotic feel to the place. But that’s all very much part of its charm.
On a Saturday lunchtime, the takeaway option was a popular one – served from the open window onto the pavement.
Szechuan recipes that have been passed down through generations of the Weng family are cooked in this soup kitchen-style area in one of the two arches that make up the restaurant, huge saucepans bubbling away on electric hot plates.
But we decided to eat inside on a table next to which one member of staff was contently ripping meat from chicken carcasses.
Two people can eat very well here with change from a tenner, with nothing costing more than £5.50 – an absolute bargain for the hefty portions of food, which for me chicken dandan noodle hotpot, more and more delights eliciting themselves from within the hearty broth.
For sensitive English palettes, all the dishes’ spiciness can also be adjusted to individual tastes.
This is some of Bristol’s street-food served indoors. No doubt larger queues will be forming soon.
Chilli Daddy, 45-47 Baldwin Street, Bristol, BS1 1RA
www.chillidaddy.com
Photo by Doug Jewell
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