Beer Emporium, Bristolback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
I do love a cellar bar. Initially greeted by a bar but the action is down a couple of flights of stairs, with a lift available should you need it. A cavernous vaulted ceiling. Very atmospheric. Mainly long wooden tables but a couple of leather sofas for more comfortable seating.
Extensive collection of bottles and hand pulls but £8.80 for a 300ml St Bernardus 12 is taking the mick a bit.
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A great beer selection including craft and cask and offerings from the excellent Tap Social, friendly service and this was a good place to spend a few hours. Pizzas were OK - standards have crept up nationally so I would say that these ones were only so so - but the main worry was how empty the place was - surely the sums are not adding up financially.
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The Beer Emporium was probably my favourite bar in King Street last Thursday night. For a start, I liked the underground tunnel setting which makes it much more characterful than some of the other "urban" bars that craft beer seems to rely on for its sales outlets. Secondly, they sell great pizzas which you can either eat in a roped-off dining area or at your table. Thirdly, the prices were reasonable for King Street - £3.80 for a pint of Bristol Beer Factory's Bristletoe 4.7% and £4 for a pint of Crane's LIFT IPA 5%, both of which were very good. Other beers on sale were BBF's Milk Stout, Arbor's Blue Sky Drinking, Gloucester's Red 100, Wild Beer's Bibble, Troubadour's Magma, Vibrant Forest's Cydonia and Wold Top's Against the Grain. The steady influx of customers and the fact that all seats were taken suggested that others also find this place to be worth visiting.
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forget previous review _wrong pub. This one has a large cellar bar but was completely empty. Advertised 12 cask ales, but figured than all of the had probably been sitting in the lines since xmas eve so gave it a miss.
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A large black board behind the bar advertised the beers available and thankfully the prices too. £4.50 or more for a pint of beer? no thanks, at least not in a scruffy back street boozer in Bristol.
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A nice place, but shocking service from seemingly undertrained and surly staff, general cleanliness and high beer prices really let the place down.
There doesn't seem to be enough staff and this means that the tables are swimming in spillages and glasses waiting to be cleared leaving people with limited choice as to where to sit. All-in-all it could just be soooo much better.
To the barman with the white ear expander earring - don't get a bottle conditioned Belgian beer out of the fridge and toss it through 360 degrees TWICE whilst walking back to serve it to me, then get sh*tty with me for asking you to get another one - particularly when said 330ml beer costs £7.
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