Courtyard Wine Bar, Nailsea - pub details
Address: 120 High Street, Nailsea, Bristol, Somerset, BS48 1AH [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 35229) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Nailsea & Backwell (1.1 miles), Yatton (4.5 miles)
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> Current user rating: 5.3/10 (rated by 3 users)
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user reviews of Courtyard Wine Bar, Nailsea
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| Since my previous review, this has been closed for a few months after the previous landlady retired. Since then it’s been refurbished and extended and is now back open. Passing by one lunchtime I thought it looked more like a café than a pub with blue and white chequered tablecloths on all the tables. It has perhaps a bit of a French theme now, and this is reflected in the nationality of the landlord as well as some of the pictures on the walls. The area that was formerly an outside patio area has now been covered over with an extension, doubling the size of the pub. This still has a semi outdoors feel however with a paved floor, glass roof, large bi-folding doors and even a water feature (and a parrot in a cage). There is still a minimal amount of outside seating, although this is in the part of the courtyard that serves other businesses. If you don’t mind being overlooked by a barbers and a garden shop, along with all their customers squeezing past, then I’m sure it’s fine. Inside it’s been spruced up and has a more contemporary feel with fresh cream paintwork on the walls and new furniture. Food is offered, although I didn’t check the menu. All I noticed was a blackboard advertising Sunday lunch between 12:00 – 5:00. The only beer on tap was Bath’s Gem along with their Dark Side stout. The solitary cider was Bounders from the same company. Oddly there was no lemonade on tap, so if you wanted a shandy or even a soft drink then your only option was to buy several small mixer bottles which would presumably have been rather expensive. Blackthorn - 16 Jul 2013 11:49 |
| Place is closed, and it would seem it us very unlikely to reopen beatles38 - 14 Jan 2013 10:59 |
| Not quite as trendy as you might infer from the name, but nonetheless a pleasant enough place even if it is slightly lacking in character. In may ways it seems more like a private members club, with dull red carpet, dull red bench seating and a wooden bar area that just seems a little bit old fashioned. Being a wine bar, you may expect to see a good selection of wines chalked up on a board, but although there used to be just such a board to the left of the bar that has now been replaced with a plasma. There was a selection of wine visible in the �fridge, but presumably you have to squint at it to try and make it out, or enquire of the bar staff. No such problems if you�re after a coffee though, there were plenty of mugs hanging from the bar and a selection of different cuppa�s chalked up on a board above the bar. Is this a wine bar or a coffee shop we ask ourselves? Besides the aforementioned dull red colour scheme, there�s a number of marble topped tables scattered around which all came with some fresh carnations and a lighted candle. The wall is regular painted plaster on one side and exposed brickwork on the other, although the brick is of a quite modern variety so doesn�t have quite the visual appeal that you get in some pubs. There�s a curious wood stripwork on the ceiling that really looks as though it would be more at home cladding the floor. A few pictures are dotted around and there are some large windows overlooking the courtyard from whence this bar takes it�s name. Outside there are a couple of tables and benches. The menu is mostly baguettes, sandwiches, jackets, omelettes, etc., although there were also a few regular meals, all with chips, and a few specials which were all fish. Barmaid seemed pleasant enough, and it soon filled up with a crowd of locals early on a Friday evening. The solitary beer on tap was Doom Bar. Ciders were Blackthorn and Thatcher�s Gold. Blackthorn - 22 Oct 2010 23:01 |
| nice food at a reasonable price . smallish bar , couple of real ales , good choice of wines . nice friendly barmaid . beatles38 - 29 Aug 2008 12:05 |
