Pubs and Bars / Pubs
Pub of the week: The Slug and Lettuce
The Living Room overlooking Millennium Square is no more.
In its place is the Slug & Lettuce, owned by the same Luton-based pub company as The Living Room, Yates’s and Scream, who have decided it needed a rebrand from a bar to a pub that feels like a bar.
Yet despite a few weeks of refurbishment, there is very little of any significantly noticeable difference to what was here before.
The Slug & Lettuce website says that it “prides itself on offering a local and individual feel to each bar”, of which there are 80 across the UK.
What the local and individual feel is here in Bristol’s harbourside, I am not so sure.
It’s an area that in recent months has seen the arrival of a new art gallery, triathlon shop and indoor golf centre, yet still feels soulless with no sense of real community.
The best thing that happens around here is the arrival of the Chomp burger van parked on Cathedral Walk on Tuesday and Fridays.
There is certainly no local and individual feel to this corner of Bristol nor this Slug & Lettuce, whose sister pub on St Nicholas Street has also recently been refurbished.
That’s unless you count local as cider from Magner’s at £3.90 a pint, a selection of cocktails from Brazil and a food menu the size of a small dictionary, with deals including 50 per cent off food every Monday, two-for-one curries on a Tuesday, and two-for-one desserts all week.
The Living Room may be no more, but ignore the new name above the door and it may as well still be.
The Slug And Lettuce, Explore Lane, Bristol, BS1 5TY
0117 925 3993
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