Browns Bar & Brasserie - Bristol Reviews

I took my wife and daughters for a lunchtime drink on a bank holiday to check the place out before taking the family for an evening meal. The service was prompt, and the coffee was great - the best I've had for a long time. I wish they cleared our table whilst we were there and replaced the cardboard menus with better ones.

My husband and I have had mixed experiences at Browns. The first couple of times we went there, the service was friendly though, on the first occasion, we did have to wait an exceedingly long time for the main course and then for coffee, the menu choice, their winter 2006/07 menu was excellent and the food, when it came terrific. However, the last time we went there, in summer 2007, we were shunted to a small dark side table right next to the busy waiter station, even though the place was by no means full, the choice of dishes on the menu was so disappointing we almost got up and left and the food we eventually chose was so grim and overpriced we wished we had. I can only describe my dish as expensive fish bones in melted butter, and my husbands was a pasta dish so hot he could hardly eat it. We shall probably give it another go, come winter (the winter menu was certainly better than the summer one) when we're hoping it would have bucked its ideas up a bit.

I came here recently one evening with my wife and we were looking forward to spending a nice couple of hours here. On arrival we were not met by any staff and so we took a seat of our choice. After about fifteen minutes a member of the staff asked if we were eating and we replied that we were not sure. She then told us that we had to move and pointed us in a vague direction. The look she gave us was painful to receive. We did sit down in a new area and after a further ten minutes I sought out a new member of staff who was not very helpful either. As my wife was already upset after the first incident, we left and unfortunately our evening was ruined. It is worth pointing out that Browns was not busy and our behaviour and dress did not warrant the treatment that we received.