Bristol's Michelin-Starred restaurants and how much a meal costs there (2025)

Bristol currently boasts two Michelin-Starred restaurants

Bristol has seen a change in its Michelin-Starred offering over the years.

Those of us who love a bit of fine dining are spoiled for choice in the city, with restaurants all over Bristol serving up exceptional cuisine, professional service, high quality ingredients and stylish interior decor.

Fortunately, Bristol's Michelin-Starred restaurants - of which there are two - offer all the style and substance of a fine dining restaurant up there with the best of them, without breaking the bank.

Take Bulrush, for example. This Michelin-Starred restaurant on Cotham Road, owned by chef George Livesey, was first given the accolade by Michelin in 2019, and has retained it ever since.

After fellow Michelin-Starred restaurant Paco Tapas lost its Michelin Star in 2024, this popular restaurant became the last standing for a while, until Wilsons was given the prestigious accolade, earlier this year.

At the time, chef and owner of Wilsons in Redland, Jan Ostle, put the boom in our dining scene down to "people in Bristol" and "good vibes".

Founded in 2016 by Jan and partner Mary Wilson, the farm-to-table restaurant uses produce from its own two acre market garden to supply the veg, herbs and flowers for its dishes.

Chef George of Bulrush believes that when people think of Michelin-Starred restaurants, they have a certain picture in their minds of how a restaurant should look, and this is a perception he thinks needs changing.

"We don't have tablecloths, we play music, I want a more relaxed service, and I think sometimes people see Michelin Star and think 'where are the tablecloths, where's the really expensive champagne' - it's not always about that.

"We are one of the cheapest Michelin restaurants in the UK... The quality of the ingredients that we are using is the same as some of the London restaurants, but they're charging around three times the amount, and that does get a little bit frustrating."

This got us wondering just how much a Michelin-Starred meal costs us right here and now in Bristol in 2025. Here's what we found...

Wilsons

Wilsons offers a full six course set menu that is available at both lunchtimes and evenings, priced at £73.

There is also a reduced set menu of three courses on Wednesday-Friday lunchtimes, priced at £35.

According to its website: "The menu changes frequently depending on what is growing in the market garden, changing with the seasons and the weather."

Bulrush

According to the Bulrush website, the restaurant boasts a tasting menu Friday and Saturday (12-1.30pm), set lunch menu Friday and Saturday (12-2.30pm), Bulrush tasting menu (Tuesday-Saturday, 6-7.30pm) and 'early evening' tasting menu (Tuesday-Thursday evenings, 5.30pm).

According to sample menus on the website at time of writing (subject to change), prices and courses are:

Bulrush Sample Tasting Menu - £90 (extra optional drinks pairing for £70, or £44 for non-alcoholic pairing)

Dishes on the sample menu include:

• Carrot XO doughnut, trout croustade, lamb belly
• Montgomery cheddar, onion marmalade, brioche (served alongside Sourdough and roasted yeast butter)
• Wye Valley asparagus, fork weed, pumpkin seed
• Orkney scallop, spruce, salsify
• Plaice, smoked herring, Jerusalem artichoke
• Wild fallow venison, smoked chestnut, parsley root, date
• Lancashire lowfields cheese, honeycombe (£11.5 supplement) OR
• Yarlington cheese ice cream, dandelion root syrup (£11.5 supplement)
• Meadowsweet custard, soba honey, rhubarb
• Stout ice cream, cep cajeta, Manjari chocolate
• Sea buckthorn Madeleine, mandarin creme fraiche

Bulrush 'early evening' Sample Tasting Menu - £65 (optional drinks pairing for £50, or £33 for non-alcoholic pairing)

Dishes on the sample menu include:

• Carrot XO doughnut, lamb belly
• Montgomery cheddar, onion marmalade, brioche (served alongside Sourdough and roasted yeast butter)
• Wye Valley asparagus, fork weed, pumpkin seed
• Wild fallow venison, smoked chestnut, parsley root, date
• Lancashire lowfields cheese, honeycombe (£11.5 supplement) OR
• Yarlington cheese ice cream, dandelion (£11.5 supplement)
• Meadowsweet custard, soba honey, rhubarb
• Sea buckthorn Madeleine

Bulrush Sample Vegetarian Tasting Menu - £90 (optional drinks pairing for £70 or £44 for non-alcoholic pairing)

Dishes on the sample menu include:

• Carrot XO, pomme dauphine, mushroom croustade
• Montgomery cheddar, onion marmalade, brioche (erved alongside Sourdough and roasted yeast butter)
• Wye Valley asparagus, fork weed, pumpkin seed
• Jersey royal, alexander, mustard
• Cylindra beetroot, rose, sunflower
• Celeriac, winter truffle, hay and stonebeck
• Lancashire lowfields cheese, honeycombe (£11.5 supplement) OR
• Yarlington cheese ice cream, birch sap (£11.5 supplement)
• Meadowsweet custard, soba honey, rhubarb
• Stout ice cream, cep cajeta, Manjari chocolate
• Sea buckthorn Madeleine & mandarin creme fraiche

Bulrush Sample Vegan Tasting Menu - £90 (optional drinks pairing for £70 or £44 for non-alcoholic pairing)

Dishes on the sample menu include:

• Chickpea & walnut, wild mushroom, carrot XO
• Smoked almond, onion marmalade, blue masa cornbread (served alongside Sourdough)
• Wye Valley asparagus, fork weed, pumpkin seed
• Jersey royal, alexander, mustard
• Cylindra beetroot, rosehip, sunflower seeds
• Celeriac, winter truffle, hay and yeast
• Meadowsweet, rhubarb, rose
• Marigold sorbet, muscovado, chocolate
• Tangerine, pineapple weed