The Canteen

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The Canteen is a vibrant venue that offers a wide choice of drinks alongside a food menu of British cuisine where meals are prepared using local, organic produce wherever possible.

I work just over the road at Jamaica Street Studios and go out in Stokes Croft on a regular basis. The last couple of times I've been to the Canteen I've been shocked by the rudeness of the bar staff. Where on earth has customer care gone? I think we'll stick to our old favourites, The Bell and the Hillgrove.

Full of Nathen Barley smelly hedge monkey types. About as fake as u can get.

The Canteen is a great meeting spot with a good bunch of staff and most of the time nice cheap food. It’s not part of a chain.. It’s run by the people who run the Harbour side bar. Two places isn't a chain? Why would anyone want Stokes croft to resemble the crack dump it was five to ten years ago.

Bristol is a trendy Nathan Barley city and full of transient toffs and trustafarians but it’s still has its fair share of decent folk trying to do good DIY things. The Canteen and its art studios is one of them. Like him or loathe him George Ferguson has made Bristol popular and brought investment in. . . bla

Amazing place,
Such cheap food considering it is fresh, seasonal, wholesome and local.
Great live music too.
Well recommend it.

Yeah, this place is ok, but i preferred the place derelict. Not tried the food, my partner and son like it enough but that is more a comment on my ability to cook only pasta, and then very badly. The drinks are overpriced, and depending on the time of day it is full of posers, arty posers or drunk arty posers. And worst of all, lets not forget the Cliftonites coming down for a culture trip and a whinge about people selling the Big Issue and their (fricking brilliant) dogs.

Sorry, what happened to Stokes Croft as it was 10 years ago? Now its still grubby but Tesco is imminent and the canteen is part of a chain anyways, so how is it any different.

Escape!

Yeah, this place is ok, but i preferred the place derelict. Not tried the food, my partner and son like it enough but that is more a comment on my ability to cook only pasta, and then very badly. The drinks are overpriced, and depending on the time of day it is full of posers, arty posers or drunk arty posers. And worst of all, lets not forget the Cliftonites coming down for a culture trip and a whinge about people selling the Big Issue and their (fricking brilliant) dogs.

Sorry, what happened to Stokes Croft as it was 10 years ago? Now its still grubby but Tesco is imminent and the canteen is part of a chain anyways, so how is it any different.

Escape!

Reasonable prices and the food is ok. However the customer service is abysmal and if you are looking for lunch and don't have an unlimited lunch break don't go here. Kitchen opens pretty much when they are ready to open and this varies day to day. "Kitchen don't like to take orders before they are open", I asked what time they would open and was told 12.15, I went back at what I thought was 12.15 to be told that the kitchen isn't open it is only 12.12 come back in 3 mins. Guess what happened, yeah we left and had a very nice lunch at Zazus! If you're going to offer lunch surely you should have your kitchen open at 12.00. On another occasion I went and was advised that the kitchen would not open until 12.45, we left at 1pm as the kitchen still wasn't open. Get your staff in earlier to prepare for lunch, it isn't rocket science.