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Finally the long awaited Clifton Lido Restaurant opens its doors.

The Restaurant at Clifton Lido will bring a unique new dining experience to Bristol when it opens this month.

Key to the £2 million redevelopment of the grade II listed Clifton Lido was for an ambitious new restaurant to shape the future of this historic facility and make it socially relevant today.

The Restaurant at Clifton Lido is a destination in its own right, serving fresh, rustic seasonal food, much of it locally grown, cooked in an Italian wood-fired Valoriani oven imported from Florence.

In keeping with the leisure setting, the restaurant is informal and the food reasonably priced with options to order starters or mains, little plates or sharing plates. See over for a sample menu from head chef Freddy Bird.

The restaurant will open for lunch and dinner seven days a week, while the poolside bar will open in the morning and afternoon for breakfast, brunch, afternoon teas and light meals, with a drinks service during the evening.

“Produce will be sourced locally where possible but the influence comes from much further afield, from European and Middle Eastern countries,” said owner Arne Ringner, the man behind two landmark floating restaurants in Bristol, Glass Boat and Spyglass.

For Arne, the opportunity to open another restaurant by water – this time in Bristol’s “West End” of Clifton – was what drew him to this most challenging redevelopment of a grade II listed site. The Lido’s 75 seat restaurant overlooks the pool with a vast sliding glass wall to maximise the views.

“We have a vision of the Lido being very accessible as a social hub for local people and as a destination for people from further afield who are curious to see how a 19th century Lido can be adapted to modern life,” says Arne.

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