Sergio's
BS1 5NA
Snapshot
- Area
- Bristol City Centre
- Cuisine
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Italian
- Price
- Sub £15
- Tags
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italian
bristol city centre
byo
Ratings
- Overall
- 2.3 stars
- Food
- 2.7 stars
- Service
- 2.3 stars
- Ambience
- 2.7 stars
Opening hours
- Monday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 5.40pm - 11.00pm
- Tuesday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 5.40pm - 11.00pm
- Wednesday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 5.40pm - 11.00pm
- Thursday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 5.40pm - 11.00pm
- Friday
- Midday - 2.30pm /… 5.40pm - 11.00pm
- Saturday
- 5.30pm - 11.00pm
- Sunday
- CLOSED
- Alfresco dining
- Child friendly
- Cover charge
- Disable WC
- Disabled access
- Group bookings
- Open bank holidays
- Parking
- Private dining
- Quality wine cellar
- Reservation required
- Smoking area
- Special dietry
- Veggie friendly
- WiFi
Sergio's brings family-run rural Tuscany to the heart of Bristol's theatre district, offering split-level dining from a series of meticulous menu boards. Fish often features but it's not all traditional: ostrich has been known to waddle on to the menu, although the problem was it kept burying its head in the tagliatelli. Lively atmosphere (it's a bit quieter upstairs). Extensive vino on hand but you can BYO for a small corkage which helps the pocket because the place has been criticised for being too expensive. All in all though, here's one family who know how to make you a trougher, you can't refuse.
Restaurant Reviews
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A Bit Much......
Rating - Overall: 2 Food: 2 Service: 2 Ambience: 3
31 Mar 2009
This place looks really inviting & cosy from the outside, always busy, and after years of walking past it I finally went in for lunch.
The menu is vast & includes things you wouldn't really class as Italian fare, such as kangaroo & ostrich. There is a set lunch menu - £8.95 for 2 courses - if I could have made out what was written on it then I would have gone for this, in the hope of a smaller portion!
Ordered olives & garlic bread to accompany our pasta, a mistake as they alone would have done for lunch - Huge bowl of olives (£5) and Huge flat garlic bread (£6!!). Never had a bigger plate of pasta, EVER! Prices range from about £13 - £16, which would be acceptable were it not just cheap & cheerful shop bought pasta - the sauces are good but the dishes should be half the price, definitely half the size & presented a little better, the crockery has seen much better days. The drinks are over priced so no wonder everyone takes their own :) I won't be in a hurry to go back but if you are on the lookout for a mammoth plate of pasta, you won't get bigger than in here.
Visited: March 31, 2009
What I ate: pasta primavera, olives, garlic breadThis review has no responses yet
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Portions for heffers
Rating - Overall: 3 Food: 4 Service: 3 Ambience: 2
2 Jan 2009
I completely agree about the portions - I found them too large and subsquently too expensive. I'm also slightly suspect about the menu as well - far too much on there implies not all of it can be freshly made...it also means you spend ages trying to decide!
The BYO aspect used to be the main reason we'd been returning over the years but as prices have steadily crept up it's become less value for money. If you want a good hearty plate of pasta you can't go wrong but if I'm shelling out over £16 on meat and veg, I'd rather be in plusher surroundings. Can't fault the location though, right underneath Park St in the centre.
Visited: June 18, 2008
What I ate: Mussels, vealThis review has no responses yet
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Very disappointing
Rating - Overall: 2 Food: 2 Service: 2 Ambience: 3
19 Sep 2008
This restaurant looks like an authentic Italian restaurant, the food however was a massive disappointment. We had resevred a table and yet were crammed onto a small table by the toilets, at best this table shouldn't exist at all - there just isn't room - if they must keep it should be a reserve table for people with no reservation. We ordered a starter of olives, this bowl of olives was massive and not in a good way. It would served my table of two twice over for startes and they weren't that great. The menu is difficult to read as it only existed on a blackboard over the bar making it difficult to read all of the available dishes, I settled on the risotto. When it arrived, it was double the size it needed to be - half of this would have been an ample size for a main course. The restaurant is bring your own and the corkage charge reasonable, the portion sizes are completetly wrong and the quality of the food in no way justifies the prices they charge, I would say they are overcharging a substabtial amount - maybe a fifth. For the price i expect much better food.
Visited: March 8, 2008
What I ate: olives, risottoThis review has no responses yet
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