Bambalan

Who's coming for brunch?

Why have one cocktail when you can have two?
All cocktails 2 for £10 until 9pm 😎

Come and see us for cocktails and DJs on the terrace this evening 🍹

Are you in town Hoo Ha! Festival at Colston Hall? Kids eat for free with a paying adult - and we're only across the road!
#HooHa #HooHaFest

It's #NationalRumDay - come and see us for a Moonshine Lemonade!
Grapefruit-infused Appletons white rum, pink grapefruit, lemon, soda.

Fancy bagging yourself a free cocktail with us? Check out Red Bull's #KeyToYourCity and find out how! https://www.redbull.com/…/projects/keys -to-your-city-bristol

Not planned your Bank Holiday weekend yet? We're seeing out the Summer by doing what we do best - throwing a massive all day party filled with great food, great drinks and great vibes!

This Bank Holiday Sunday we’re doing what Bambalan does best - throwing a massive day time party complete with great food, great drinks, great music and great vibes!
Kicking off at 10am we’ll be hosting a whole day of great deals, starting with some great Bank Holiday brunch deals, followed by two for £10 cocktails all day, as well as some great group deals on our signature Babs, drinks pitchers and much more. Our resident DJs will be providing the soundtrack from midday until later, and after 5pm we’ll be turning up the volume and seeing out the Summer with a night of great music on the terrace.
Entry is free before 5pm and for those with dinner bookings after 5pm. Entry after 5pm will be £3 on the door.

Come and see us for lunch in the summer holidays!

Looking for a Christmas party venue? Talk to us!

We'll get you set up for Sunday with coffee & brunch baps 💪

Who's coming to watch this evening's hot air balloon ascent from our terrace?

What could be better than a Spritz on our terrace this weekend? 📸: sonal.solanki

Bristol International Balloon Fiesta has started - do some balloon-spotting from our terrace this weekend!

Having a night out at the theatre or a gig? Show us your ticket for 20% off your bill that evening!

Come and spend your summer holidays with us - kids eat free Mon-Fri from 12-5pm 🥙

We're closed for some filming until 4pm tomorrow, but #LittleBam has got you covered for coffee, cake & lunches until then!

Bab times = the best times. 📸: vlou_87

We know it's early, but for those early birds already planning their Christmas parties - get in touch! hola@bambalan.co.uk

We went to this place last Saturday. We mentioned we found it difficult to feel me the front door. The door woman said that we wouldn’t regret finding it and she was right. Brilliant atmosphere, good value cocktails and great DJ. We felt like we were on holiday. Rooftop garden is an added bonus. Menu looked good too. Lovely decor inside and out.

We dined here before to the Bryan Ferry concert at the Colston Hall which is dead opposite. We each had the Bams , mine with Lamb & Chicken & my daughters with King Prawn. They were delicious !!! Prices weren’t stupid & if you show your show tickets, they give you a further 20% off. Well impressed great friendly service in a light & airy building with a buzzing atmosphere . Definitely worth a visit .

Stunning venue for a bar and love its little quirks .. the BBQ food was so nice and makes a change from the usual burgers and sausages. Very attentive staff and thoughtful touches like a bucket of sun cream for guests make this place stand out ��

Really yummy food in a quirky environment. Very friendly and helpful staff. They do 20% off the bill pre and post events at Colston Hall, also two cocktails for £10 Monday-Friday. Can't wait to go again and check out cocktails on the terrace when the sun eventually decides to make an appearance. 😎🍹

Great place to party or just to grab a coffee and a bite to eat.

Outdoor table tennis. Indoor cocktails. Live music.

A great view of the city centre and friendly staff make this place well worth a visit if you're in the area.

Food is amazing 😍.. as we were going to the colston hall we got 20% of our bill which was fab....

great atmosphere and very friendly staff.

Attended on a Saturday night with friends. The food was excellent, and was served within minutes by the loveliest waitress ever! Perfect quirky Bristol vibe - we will all be back.

Amazing salad and a lovely chilled evening with my boyfriend!! Just watching the world go by

Absolutely delicious food and wonderful service! Catered for gluten free and were extremely prompt and helpful considering we didn't want to be kate for Jimmy Carr! Waiting staff very friendly and generally lovely to see all staff smiling and happy as they bustled about the place. We will be back (all the way from Wales!). The brunch offer for free kids looks great!

This really is a fantastic venue with lovely food .... but they need to employ more staff. Over an hour wait for food and always long queues for drinks ...

Had late lunch on Sat 30th June...Staff was very nice...Lunch was also nice had a cocktail with it...Planned to stay the whole afternoon as music just started and the sun was shining but bar queue was far too long so left...would I go back/recommend yes I would.

Had a lovely meal last night. Went for the Charcoal Roasted Chicken on flatbread. Delicious!

Came for the first time today. Excellent value for money, yummy food, nice venue, quick service and happy to cater to all requests and dietary requirements. Think the discount when you have Colston hall tickets is a lovely touch. Also went out of their way to hide a cake for my sister's birthday and bring it out and got her a vase for her flowers! Special thanks to our lovely waitress who was genuine and even stopped to watch a video of my daughter's performance earlier that day and congratulate her! Sorry I didn't get your name! Only downside chips were too salty (too hungry to care so didn't say anything!)

Quite a nice place, unfortunately bar staff really take the piss with the measurements in the cocktail pitchers though. Sugar water for a fairly eye watering price. Probably won’t come back.

Food is excellent and waiting staff very attentive and friendly, great little place to eat before a show. Criticisms - for eating early evening ie 6pm the music is ridiculously loud and not very appropriate for the theme of the place, also I ordered the baklava for pudding and it was crammed into a drinking glass - tasted nice but was hard to eat and gradually took on the consistency of crushed insects which isn't very pleasant. I guess if you were to turn out that portion it would be lost on a saucer. Aside from that I will return.

Very poor!

Our table of 6 waited over 45mins to make an order. Not even offered drinks before this point. We then all ordered brunch off a very limited menu. Another 25mins later 2 very basic bagels arrived on old battered looking boards. Assuming the other plates of food on the pass was ours we were surprised when another 10mins passed before three more brunches arrived. When asked by a very surly looking waitress 'anything else?' we explained that we were still waiting for a 6th meal. Without a response she went back to the kitchen before returning to tell us they would start cooking it now, no apology, no explanation, nothing....

When asked further to what happened and how long it would be, we were told she 'didn't know how long, waved us away and there was nothing she could do about it!! There was alot of us and the kitchen couldn't keep up!'



As it is an open kitchen one of our party asked the chef how long as everyone else had finished, the chef apologised and explained that the waitress had missed the 6th meal off the order, not that the kitchen couldn't cope. Not surprisingly with very slow service, very rude staff and average basic food none of us will be returning �

This place is very close to work, so we went there for lunch. Waited for 20 minutes for someone to take our order and then another 30 minutes, before we started asking about our food. One waiter was very rude and said ‘I don’t know’ and the other one said ‘10 minutes’, we waited another 10 minutes and then decided to leave as our lunch break was over. On our way out one of the waitresses gave us a snarky comment. We were baffled by the whole experience. It was a weekday lunch, they had 3 members of staff and only a handful of tables. No reason for the food to take this long and definitely no reason to being so rude. There are plenty of lovely restaurants in Bristol, don’t recommend Bambalan.

Sort it out. I came here in bank holiday Sunday and was refused a long island because 'it messes up our stock take' by a guy who then free poured me a rum and coke. I've just come in again and watched a bar maid use a measurer to pour me 2/3 of a shot of rum in a rum and coke. Twice in a row.

Menu is quite limited, 5 people out or a party of 8 didn't order food due to the limitations.

The thing that put me off and made me think I will definitely not come back is on the way to the bathroom saw the chef coming out of the bathroom with his apron on. Made me glad that I had not ordered food. Shame as the location and atmosphere of this restaurant is great.

We went to this place last Saturday. We mentioned we found it difficult to feel me the front door. The door woman said that we wouldn’t regret finding it and she was right. Brilliant atmosphere, good value cocktails and great DJ. We felt like we were on holiday. Rooftop garden is an added bonus. Menu looked good too. Lovely decor inside and out.

We dined here before to the Bryan Ferry concert at the Colston Hall which is dead opposite. We each had the Bams , mine with Lamb & Chicken & my daughters with King Prawn. They were delicious !!! Prices weren’t stupid & if you show your show tickets, they give you a further 20% off. Well impressed great friendly service in a light & airy building with a buzzing atmosphere . Definitely worth a visit .

Stunning venue for a bar and love its little quirks .. the BBQ food was so nice and makes a change from the usual burgers and sausages. Very attentive staff and thoughtful touches like a bucket of sun cream for guests make this place stand out ��

Really yummy food in a quirky environment. Very friendly and helpful staff. They do 20% off the bill pre and post events at Colston Hall, also two cocktails for £10 Monday-Friday. Can't wait to go again and check out cocktails on the terrace when the sun eventually decides to make an appearance. 😎🍹

Great place to party or just to grab a coffee and a bite to eat.

Outdoor table tennis. Indoor cocktails. Live music.

A great view of the city centre and friendly staff make this place well worth a visit if you're in the area.

Food is amazing 😍.. as we were going to the colston hall we got 20% of our bill which was fab....

great atmosphere and very friendly staff.

Attended on a Saturday night with friends. The food was excellent, and was served within minutes by the loveliest waitress ever! Perfect quirky Bristol vibe - we will all be back.

Amazing salad and a lovely chilled evening with my boyfriend!! Just watching the world go by

Absolutely delicious food and wonderful service! Catered for gluten free and were extremely prompt and helpful considering we didn't want to be kate for Jimmy Carr! Waiting staff very friendly and generally lovely to see all staff smiling and happy as they bustled about the place. We will be back (all the way from Wales!). The brunch offer for free kids looks great!

This really is a fantastic venue with lovely food .... but they need to employ more staff. Over an hour wait for food and always long queues for drinks ...

Had late lunch on Sat 30th June...Staff was very nice...Lunch was also nice had a cocktail with it...Planned to stay the whole afternoon as music just started and the sun was shining but bar queue was far too long so left...would I go back/recommend yes I would.

Had a lovely meal last night. Went for the Charcoal Roasted Chicken on flatbread. Delicious!

Came for the first time today. Excellent value for money, yummy food, nice venue, quick service and happy to cater to all requests and dietary requirements. Think the discount when you have Colston hall tickets is a lovely touch. Also went out of their way to hide a cake for my sister's birthday and bring it out and got her a vase for her flowers! Special thanks to our lovely waitress who was genuine and even stopped to watch a video of my daughter's performance earlier that day and congratulate her! Sorry I didn't get your name! Only downside chips were too salty (too hungry to care so didn't say anything!)

Quite a nice place, unfortunately bar staff really take the piss with the measurements in the cocktail pitchers though. Sugar water for a fairly eye watering price. Probably won’t come back.

Food is excellent and waiting staff very attentive and friendly, great little place to eat before a show. Criticisms - for eating early evening ie 6pm the music is ridiculously loud and not very appropriate for the theme of the place, also I ordered the baklava for pudding and it was crammed into a drinking glass - tasted nice but was hard to eat and gradually took on the consistency of crushed insects which isn't very pleasant. I guess if you were to turn out that portion it would be lost on a saucer. Aside from that I will return.

Very poor!

Our table of 6 waited over 45mins to make an order. Not even offered drinks before this point. We then all ordered brunch off a very limited menu. Another 25mins later 2 very basic bagels arrived on old battered looking boards. Assuming the other plates of food on the pass was ours we were surprised when another 10mins passed before three more brunches arrived. When asked by a very surly looking waitress 'anything else?' we explained that we were still waiting for a 6th meal. Without a response she went back to the kitchen before returning to tell us they would start cooking it now, no apology, no explanation, nothing....

When asked further to what happened and how long it would be, we were told she 'didn't know how long, waved us away and there was nothing she could do about it!! There was alot of us and the kitchen couldn't keep up!'



As it is an open kitchen one of our party asked the chef how long as everyone else had finished, the chef apologised and explained that the waitress had missed the 6th meal off the order, not that the kitchen couldn't cope. Not surprisingly with very slow service, very rude staff and average basic food none of us will be returning �

This place is very close to work, so we went there for lunch. Waited for 20 minutes for someone to take our order and then another 30 minutes, before we started asking about our food. One waiter was very rude and said ‘I don’t know’ and the other one said ‘10 minutes’, we waited another 10 minutes and then decided to leave as our lunch break was over. On our way out one of the waitresses gave us a snarky comment. We were baffled by the whole experience. It was a weekday lunch, they had 3 members of staff and only a handful of tables. No reason for the food to take this long and definitely no reason to being so rude. There are plenty of lovely restaurants in Bristol, don’t recommend Bambalan.

Sort it out. I came here in bank holiday Sunday and was refused a long island because 'it messes up our stock take' by a guy who then free poured me a rum and coke. I've just come in again and watched a bar maid use a measurer to pour me 2/3 of a shot of rum in a rum and coke. Twice in a row.

Menu is quite limited, 5 people out or a party of 8 didn't order food due to the limitations.

The thing that put me off and made me think I will definitely not come back is on the way to the bathroom saw the chef coming out of the bathroom with his apron on. Made me glad that I had not ordered food. Shame as the location and atmosphere of this restaurant is great.