Grain Barge

This Sunday! https://www.facebook.com/events/517007705 408513/

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Harbour Festival weekend. We hope you had a fab time and we look forward to seeing you again soon!

A few shots from the amazing Shōun Shōun playing our stage last weekend for Harbourfest. If anyone has pictures of any of the the acts playing our stage please share!

A big thank you to all the very talented musicians who played on our stage this weekend for Bristol Harbour Festival 2018, all the crew and the amazing audience. See you all next year!!!

Closing our outdoor stage for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge is The Man and The Lake with their wild, poetic, uproarious and anthemic gypsy folk. What a way to end what's sure to be a glorious weekend!

The Rumble-O's / SATURDAY 8pm : Taking their cues from Tarantino’s surf selections, Joe Meek’s New World, Budd and Bizet, The Rumble-O’s project their intergalactic instro’s into the heart of ‘62 and return aboard Dick Dale’s reverb tank. They blend high energy, authentic sixties sounds with a contemporary edge.

Shōun Shōun play unflinching, atmospheric, minimal post-punk channeling the spirit of Marlene Dietrich and Siouxie Sioux with a certain velvet elegance. And guess what!? - they are one of the many acts playing our stage for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge

We're excited to announce that the wonderful Jen Cloher will be playing a solo show here in November. Tickets on sale 20th July. https://www.facebook.com/events/937061033 145013/

We're super excited to welcome to our Sunday outdoor live music stage Dexter Selboy & The Shonky Trio with their laid-back rootsy folk, incorporating elements of reggae, gypsy jazz and hip-hop. Check out Harbour Festival at Grain Barge for the full weekend line-up of music + more!

The Ed Lofstedt Assembly play Harbour Festival 2018 easing us into a blissful Sunday of live music - Full weekend event details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/242368209 843324/

Robin Allender sings pastoral, lyrical dream pop - the perfect fit for our Sunday afternoon of live music for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge

The amazing Shallow Roots play here on Friday July 27th ! https://www.facebook.com/events/126900492 3239409/

New Wave Glitch Riffers Mono Dots kick off our after party for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge on Saturday 21 July. Carry on the party!

News just in... well, actually it's been on the cards for some time... finally we can announce that our old chum DJ Cactus County will be joining us again for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge.
However, in this heat, it's no wonder that he's looking a little parched. Hopefully he'll have rehydrated in time for his (legendary) MC and DJ action throughout the whole weekend here at Grain Barge. Get ready for his skillful linkage between the acts with oddball musical selections and even odder (we think brilliant) vocal thoughts on the day's progress.

Easing you into our live music line-up for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge - on Saturday 21 July - is the enchanting French composer, violinist and looper Claire Northey Music

Let the sunshine in with the uplifting Roots-Reggae of 7-piece Da Fuchaman & The Fireblaze Band, as they take over our outdoor stage for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge

We've programmed some gorgeous music for Harbour Festival at Grain Barge including local legend Tammy Payne with her outfit 'Jukes' performing artful and evocative lounge-pop

We visit the Barge whenever in Bristol. Excellent location, service, choice of beer and food. Highly recommended.

Views over the river and SS Great Britain with a nice pint of Bristol Beer Factory. Enough said

Superb steak, just the best chips ever, excellent service, real nice place, Tip jar was tacky, should of made it Corbin not Trump! It was pretty empty!!!

Proper food all made and cooked on site. Great views and very versatile with three decks. Ideal for a glass of wine on a rainy Sunday or a party/wedding below decks. Nice people too.

Our 2nd visit to this venue for a gig/party in the lower deck has confirmed that the staff are lovely, the space is well designed/laid out, and the steak I had was perfectly cooked!

Multi functional- great venue!

Loved the music a real buzzy place staff helpful. A lovely location to have a drink and watch the world go by on the waterway. 45s playing fantastic band would recommend . Balloon festival near by so balloons flying overhead magical

Love the beer and food too. View from main deck at night is wonderful

It's situated in one of the city's most auspicious spots on the harbour opposite the SS Great Britain!

I loved the chicken and chorizo pie and I also loved the steak, the cider was quite nice too. I hope you love the sound from the speakers I just repaired for you. Enjoy!

I could literally live here. The boat is awesome and such warm and friendly place to be. I loved the hot chocolate it was one of the best ive ever had and i had the caramel waffle with ice cream and that was to die for. Next time im in bristol im definitely going back.

Great location ideal place to relax and enjoy a good selection of beer cider and wines. Good food

Great food friendly staff nice to sit and watch the boats go by or relax on a settee in the sun love the'herb' deck upstairsbeen going here for years and never disappointed!!

Customer service par excellence. After a double-booking error involving the downstairs bar last night, the management and the entire team pulled out all the stops to make sure our night wasn't ruined. Thoroughly recommend. They turned around what could have been disastrous. Go and enjoy wonderful food and views, and the most lovely staff in Bristol.

Brilliant for a great view, lovely bar food and friendly and attentive staff. Had a cracking fish finger sarnie and hubbys steak was great. Lovely place

It was a good lunch with good food and service! But, I am Coeliac and our dear friend took the time out of her busy schedule to check if the gravy would be gluten free for me when she made the booking. Sadly it was not on the day:(. Chef did make a leek jus for me but it was not what I had expected. My friend was very disappointed as was I!

I've always loved the Grain Barge, the food, the drink, the views. Have been going for years. Tad disappointed to be told I'd have to pay £1 for extra gravy on my roast when I had an inadequate amount to start with! It's the small things that keep customers happy...

We stopped in for lunch yesterday after a hot walk round the harbour. We sat downstairs (upstairs on deck/outside was packed out) and were grateful for the air conditioning. I had the fish finger sandwich; the bread was actually a very chunky - but tasty - crunchy roll, so maybe call it ‘fish finger bun’? There was no way to eat it as a sandwich! My husband had the burger which he enjoyed.

I think we’ve had a wider choice of menu to choose from here in the past. We’d call by again but the experience didn’t leave me feeling that we’d specifically head that way.

I don’t suppose the loos will ever be great as they are in the bowels (pardon the pun!) of the boat but they are very claustrophobic and brighter lighting might help; they seemed clean enough.

I found the food only to an ok standard for the price I paid and the lemonade was a bit flat, however the staff were very courteous and helpful and the place was clean in a great location.

Was very disappointed mainly with the attitudes of staff very stand offish and abrupt food lovely but anything we asked for seemed to be to much bother great location just not great people skills