A Week’s Worth of Bristol’s Best Pancakes Before Shrove Tuesday
Posted on: 21 Feb 2017Nutella or maple syrup? Or lemon juice and sugar? We help you answer the eternal question in the run-up to this year's Pancake Day, as we count-down the week before Shrove Tuesday with seven days' worth of Bristol's best pancakes.
Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday as the traditionalists would have it known) this year falls on the 28th February which, if our calculations are correct, is one week from today. As such, we thought it only fitting that we present to you a different local cake-in-a-pan specialist for each day of this week. Like Craig David with low blood sugar.
Clumsy pop-culture references aside, what follows is the list of our seven favourite spots for pancakes in Bristol. Thank us later.
Crêpeaffaire - Triangle
Offering a more continental approach, Crêpeaffaire provide thinner, folded pancakes á la the crêperies in mainland Europe. With both sweet and savoury fillings on the cards, their crêpes are freshly made with organic flour and the freshest ingredients. And to celebrate Pancake Day, the restaurant at the top of Park Street are offering a week of free crêpes to the customer who posts the best instore selfie - simply post your picture on either Twitter or Instagram using #MyFreeCrepes and tagging the respective Crêpeaffaire account. Good luck!
Lounge - Bedminster
The original and still the best, Bedminster’s Lounge is the café from which the Loungers chain (which now operates dozens of joints up and down the country) sprung forth. It was here that the name for their famed buttermilk pancakes was born: really airy and delicious, they suit perfectly either the fruit or bacon and maple syrup with which they are served.
The Urban Standard - Gloucester Road
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Buttermilk is perhaps not the first word that would spring to mind at the mention of The Urban Standard, the Gloucester Road bar/kitchen more widely-renowned for meatier morsels. However it is the fluffy stacks of these pancakes which dominate their brunch menu, coming topped either with streaky bacon and maple or a decadent berry compote.
Rocotillos - Triangle
Proclaiming themselves the purveyors of ‘The best burgers, pancakes and milkshakes’, Rocotillos, as you might expect, specialise in the sweeter cuisine served up by our cousins stateside. Their pancake stacks more than live up to their billing within this culinary holy trinity, served up scotch and drenched in maple syrup.
Bill’s - Triangle
Thinner than all of the above are the offerings from Bill’s on the Triangle. Here they are cooked with blueberries suspended inside, ensuring each bite comes complete with a sharp burst of flavour. They come in massive portions too, ensuring that you won’t be left wanting more.
Brace and Brown’s - Whiteladies Road
Brace and Brown’s is famed for their notorious bottomless brunch, completing a pleasing set of plosive alliteration. Included within this are their banging pancakes which would be sumptuous enough in finite supply; but when cooked in perpetuity they take on mythical status.
Primrose Café - Clifton Village
The first name in Bristol brunching has long been the Primrose Café, sitting (suitably) at pride of place at the mouth of the Clifton Village. Their Belgian waffles aren’t strictly pancakes, but are just too good to leave off this list - equally as good smothered in chocolate sauces as they are beneath maple syrup and stacks of bacon.
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