Brazz - Taunton brings you brasserie eating at its best; their aim is to provide good food and drink at popular prices to a wide audience. The feel is bright and modern yet elegant, buzzy and stylish - with its trademark fish tank, walls adorned with hand-painted Italian ceramics and specially commissioned art by local artists.

Brazz is a bar, café and restaurant all rolled into one. Open from morning till late it is the ideal location for morning cappuccino, a quick lunch, an after work glass of wine or that celebratory dinner. An entirely flexible approach.

The bar is a comfortable affair offering a range of draught and bottled beers, many wines by the glass, cocktails and pudding wines from all over the world.
 
The restaurant, refreshingly, is happy serving up straightforward, unpretentious food without ceremony and with smiling service. A typical meal there could begin with chicken liver parfait with granary toast, or an interesting smoked haddock and shellfish chowder with Irish soda bread. They also have Dorset crab and prawn salad with cocktail sauce to entice you while their olives and feta cheese, and Autumn vegetable soup will delight vegetarians.

The main courses could pose quite a dilemma with choices ranging from Loch Duart salmon fishcakes with marinated vegetable salad and citrus aioli, to free range Devonshire chicken breast with crispy bacon roast new potatoes, curly kale, carrots and gravy, or smoked haddock and poached hen egg with horseradish savoy cabbage and new potatoes. There are also steamed Cornish mussels with garlic, lemon, parsley and French fries.

Desserts are of the comfort variety featuring buttermilk panacotta with summer berries and toasted oats, Nynehead strawberry and raspberry mess, although they also have homemade chocolates and thankfully, a good selection of ice-creams and five sets of Somerset artisan cheeses. They also have some excellent bin end wines which offer good value; however they are available only by the bottle.

Whether you are alone, impressing over business, celebrating with a large party, with the children, dropping in before or after the theatre or looking for that romantic setting, Brazz is where you'll want to be.

Situated next door to The Castle Hotel at Taunton, Brazz offers a total contrast to the traditional surroundings and style of the hotel. Brazz is now very much an established part of the city's eating out scene, and like the hotel, is included in all the major food guides.

For more about Brazz, visit their extremely informative Website.