The Greenbank

You're walking up Belle Vue Road in Easton and spot the kind of pub that still exists in Bristol if you know where to look—the kind where regulars actually know the bar staff's names. The Greenbank pulls off the hardest trick: feeling genuinely lived-in without any of that forced rusticity. The real ale selection is serious without being smug, and the food's the sort of thing you'd actually want to eat when you're three pints in, not some overpriced gastro-nonsense. It's got that easy confidence of a place that doesn't need to try too hard because the locals won't let it fail.