Cafes / Reviews
Mockingbird
Among the chi-chi boutiques, antique shops and hairdressers, it has always been a surprise that Alma Vale Road in Clifton did not have a cafe.
Yes, there are a couple of small tables in the corner of Heartfelt, one of those aforementioned chi-chi boutiques, but that doesn’t make it a cafe.
Mockingbird have spotted a clear need for something else on this road with a unique and fiercely independent character which also has probably the most shop dogs in Bristol – check out Tallulah in MeMe; she’s a beauty.
is needed now More than ever
In what used to be a short-lived wool shop, Mockingbird have created a light and airy space, light flooding in from the full-length windows at the front and also a large window overlooking a garden out the back, unfortunately not belonging to the cafe but to a student flat below.
Wooden trestle tables hold small metal buckets of flowers, on the whitewashed walls there photographs of horizons stretching far into the distance, and out of the open kitchen comes an American-themed menu.
I found the house speciality buttermilk biscuit, a savoury scone, slightly cloying and in need of being washed down with liberal amounts of Extract coffee – but I was told it’s a particular favourite at the weekend in America’s deep south.
The buttermilk biscuit is served with options including the Monterrey Jack egg and cheese, and bacon and sausages from nearby Ruby & White butchers.
Other American options are the southern seasonal granola made with Tennessee Amish molasses, a Nashville kale salad with toasted almonds and raisins, and the roast beef po’boy with slow roasted beef.
Mockingbird, 58 Alma Vale Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2HS
07734 666 020
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