Coppa Club Clifton

You'll spot those famous glass igloos before you even reach the door – they're as Bristol as Brunel's bridge these days. Inside, it's all exposed brick and industrial lighting, the kind of place where Clifton types bring their parents for birthday dinners and twenty-somethings nurse hangovers over bottomless brunch. The cocktails are properly made (not just pretty) and the food runs from decent burgers to more ambitious plates that actually deliver. Yes, it's part of a small chain, but the Regent Street location feels like it belongs here. Come evening, it shifts from coffee-and-laptop territory into somewhere you'd actually want to drink, especially if you can snag one of those heated outdoor pods when Bristol's weather inevitably turns.