Phone: +441173294900,+441173362701
Address: 24 High Street, Bristol, City of, United Kingdom
City: Bristol, City of
Dishes: 13
Reviews: 2186
"Over many years, the food at The White Horse in its various incarnations has varied from excellent to extremely disappointing. You never knew what you were going to get it was a roll of the dice. So when we visited in August for an exceptional family meal that pleased the whole crowd I didn’t post a review. However we returned a few weeks later and were equally delighted. They know what they’re doing! It was very hard to pick a starter because the short rib croquettes are scrumptious and so are the smoked haddock leek arancini, if you like your flavours big, but in the end I had to go with revisiting the beetroot, blue cheese and nut salad because it’s a banger. Beetroot heaven. Mains of steak and fish of the day did not disappoint, and I would like to get hold of a supply of their Cataratto, one of my favourite wines but so hard to find. I shouldn’t have had it with the blue cheese but it was delish with the fish fried plaice with samphire and a quite eggy saffron hollandaise. Chocolate mousse was fun although there were maybe a few too many big ‘shards’ of tasty chocolate and biscuit; having said that I did manage to polish the lot off. The young enthusiastic waiting staff are sweet, too. The Christmas season menu looks great as does their offering for Christmas Day itself which is apparently nearly sold out already, and I’m not surprised. If the White Horse can keep up this consistency of really good food it will become impossible to get a table for a spontaneous meal out, dammit."
All prices are estimates.