Spitfire Barbecue

Authentic barbecue ribs and chicken. Very nice atmosphere but it is a bit quiet on Sunday night. Staff is super friendly and helpful. She gave us a small plate to try different sauce before picking the one for our chicken. Very customer centric experience. An affordable dining options in central Bristol.

Enjoyed our meal here, burnt ends were lovely even though not as expected! Braai bread was delicious and the spitfire on tap was very good! Service excellent and lovely atmosphere! Nice to see the food being prepared through the open kitchen!

Food was great overall, the only thing I would possibly change would be the slaw, was needing more dressing but it still tasted nice.Loved the overall food and service.

Amazing restaurant!! We found it by luck and we were blown away. Such friendly and warm customer service. They checked on us and made sure that everything was good. The portions were large and we could barely finish our plates. The interior design is “Texan-style” , which is something that one doesn’t see often. The food was delicious, we got the ribs, the pulled pork sandwich and the buffalo wings. I highly recommend this place!

Came for a lunchtime meet up with a couple of friends. It was relatively quiet around lunch time. Our server was extremely polite and attentive. He absolutely made the whole experience better, really put the icing on the cake. He was straight away checking if we wanted any information about the menu. He was checking we were okay during our meal. He even brought over water as he could see our drinks were running low. After our meal they were not pushy at all about making us give up the table dispite us sitting there for quite some time. He even refreshed our water and brought us over some biscuits to have whilst we drank our coffee.The food was amazing too but the service stood out today. Its a shame I didn't catch his name but he is an asset to the spitfire team.Just put the atmosphere as 4 stars because the tables were a little close together and ended up being quite loud with other people towards the end when we were leaving.

Along the harbour, Spitfire surmounts a strong presence of a woody bbq feeling. We had the brisket, quarter chicken, braii bread and slaw.They have plenty of sauce options and the food was made well, served with great friendly staff.

I really really great amazing Resturant came here with a friend we had beef brisket and a beef, steak and fries. The food was super delicious. The staff are friendly and very welcoming. I definitely recommend this place. One of the best briskets have had in Bristol .

Delicious BBQ, friendly staff, and a warm atmosphere. The food was good with delicious sauce. While the Spitfire Wings could have been marinated instead of just having sauce squeezed over them, they were still tasty.

If you are looking to eat the most flavoursome meat dishes in Bristol then you have to come here!Do not come here if you are in a hurry. This restaurant does not pretend to be a fast food place and states that the food is slow cooked on their website menu. We had a 35 min wait for food to arrive, which was fine because we were having a chilled out Friday afternoon. Good things come to those who wait and we were rewarded with meat dishes that would make a T-Rex smile!Next time we come back, it would be nice to have some complimentary savoury snacks (for example peanuts or crisps) to nibble on as we were chatting and waiting for the food to arrive. We were very hungry after driving a couple of hours. During the wait for our food to arrive, we watched the waiters eating at the pass. Some of them were picking up the food off the dish with their hands and some of them were using a fork. We got worried that they were sampling our food and they were going to bring it over half eaten. Luckily, our food was still cooking and their empty plate was taken back into the kitchen. It appears the chef had made a little treat for the staff! I’m glad the staff get well looked after as employees and they clearly enjoyed the food. However, when I used to work in a chip shop, we were only allowed to eat the food in the back room on a break.The best meat dishes that we tried were that amazingly tasty Spitfire sausage and the pulled pork. There was a bottle of the restaurant’s own barbecue sauce on the table and this went perfectly with the pulled pork.The beef brisket was tender and awesomely slow cooked but was served at a colder temperature compared to the other items on the tray.The portion of Cowboy Fries served in a tiny enamel bowl was small for £6.55. We wish the portion was better value for money because they were so wonderfully crispy! Also, the half chicken was very small for £10. I wondered if it was a poussin. The half chickens in Nando’s are much larger.The bones were removed from the portions of salt and pepper chicken thigh (that we ordered separately to the half chicken) which made the thighs very easy to eat. We enjoyed the bonus third thigh because we only ordered two! The thighs went perfectly with the Louisiana bottle of sauce on the table. This sauce is not for the faint hearted as it does have a strong chilli kick to it!A waiter tried to take our tray before I’d eaten all of the yummy gherkin garnish! I’m a slow eater so I’m used to this happening, unfortunately. There were more staff than customers in the restaurant so maybe he was just looking for a job to do.He came back again when I’d actually finished to take the remaining tray and plate. It was nice that he was smiley but he didn’t ask us if we’d like any desserts or the bill. We were sitting at our empty table for 7 minutes before we decided to get up and ask for dessert on the way to the toilet.The toilets were fairly clean. I appreciate that you can’t choose your customers based on their toilet etiquette but there was urine on the seat in the men’s toilet. Based on the staff to customer ratio at the time we were in the restaurant then I think the toilets should have been spotless.The peanut butter stack dessert then came out quickly within 1 minute of us asking. Think crunchy peanut caramel layered in a gooey chocolate cake. I was expecting it to be served warm but I think it was served cold to keep the layers in tact. It was divine!The bill came to £77.60 for the two of us. That included two pint of cider, a selection of bbq mains, half a chicken, two sides and one dessert (which we shared). Pricey but the meat and other ingredients were of a high quality.Overall, the superb food itself is worthy of the 5 stars I gave in this review. We really enjoyed eating and drinking everything that we ordered.