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                <title>Clockwork</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Clockwork is a big club with a warehouse feel and has played host to some of the best dub, hip-hop, electro, jungle and drum &amp; bass artists around such as Foreign Beggars, Klaxons, Hot Chip, Congo Natty and Easy Star All-Stars.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Thekla social</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Someone had a genius idea of making an old boat into a club. The acoustics are great - equipped for both DJs and bands who can pump out their tunes to a resonating effect within the boat's hull. It offers a triple decker sandwich of floors, the top being a bar and (lucky for smokers) a large outside deck complete with heaters! Straight down to the bottom,  the hull becomes the main dance floor including a second bar. The selection of bands that play ranges from local to large, alternative to just plain awesome. Thursday is club night, Friday and Saturday if you want the next step up for music!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bar BS3</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Newly refurbished Bar BS3 in Ashton, Bristol has a pleasant atmosphere, friendly staff, a good entertainment programme including karaoke, DJ music, live entertainment and a quiz night. There is a great menu of freshly prepared and charcoal-grilled steaks, burgers, chicken wings and vegetarian options at very affordable prices.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hausbar</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Auri, the owner, has stylishly pulled off the Berlin idea of going for a drink in someone's house. <br><br>Getting in is the closest you're going to come to a speakeasy but they make a decent mango mojito.]]></description>
                
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                <title>newbristoljazz.co.uk</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Website promoting the coolest new acts in Bristol for jazz, swing, latin, blues and more. Bristol has a thriving music scene with some great bands doing some great new stuff.  If you're looking for the best new jazz band, sax player, vocalist, acoustic act, etc, it's a good place to start.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tantric Jazz Cafe Bar</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The coolest place in Bristol. I spotted it in The Guardian and have loved it ever since. Top music, laid-back atmosphere and some great acts - check out jazzsters like cool vocalist Nick Langston if you get a chance.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Catch the ferry to the Nova Scotia in Hotwells</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Being a maritime city, what better way to travel than by boat?! Take one of the regular ferries from the centre (by the fountains) and see the new docks developments, The SS Great Britain and The Matthew before getting off at the Nova Scotia pub for a pint of proper cider (or whatever you want!).]]></description>
                
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                <title>one3o</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Another reason to visit Stokes Croft. As you come in through the door there's a lounge bar area with a good selection of Spanish &amp; Portuguese beers. Towards the back is the restaurant area. Their tapas is imaginative and well prepared.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bordeaux Quay</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Bristol has greedily twinned herself with a host of cities, Oporto, Hannover, Tbilisi in Georgia, Beira in Mozambique, Guangzhou in China and Puerto Morazan in Nicaragua. Acknowledging the French connection is this ambitious venture which sets out to change attitudes towards food. Within the large dockside premises is a restaurant, deli, cafe, bakery and a cookery school. The food is conscientiously sourced mostly from within a 50 mile radius and is magnificent. Foodie paradise.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Windmill</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Sister pub to The Pipe &amp; Slippers across town. The ethos is much the same, mixing pub and bar culture with a kitchen that does tapas and pieminister pies. The real boon of this place is the 1970s NSM jukebox which only plays vinyl. It won't accept today's new fangled coins mind, so old school 10ps and 50ps are bought from the bar.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Luna</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A lounge club with good drinks and live music. It's in the heart of Clifton so the crowd can be a little stuffy on occasion. However, Thursday nights are a more laid back affair as the club is set aside for live jazz and latin music.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bar Salt</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[On the outskirts of the city centre lies a place called Bedminster, within Bedminster there lies a bar called Bar Salt. One of the nicest bars you will find in Bedminster, it has everything from great freshly cooked food, a  lovely al fresco beer garden to sit in the sunshine and enjoy your drink and pool tables. <br><br>As soon as you walk through the doors you're transported to a relaxed and friendly place where you can chill out alone or with friends. It has an excellent quiz every Monday night, DJ'S on Friday night and Open Mic night every Tuesday (hosted by Ryan Kenning, Ricky Martin and Neil Young - no that's really their names!!) which I have to say is the most fun I've ever had! The standard of local talent that gets up and performs is amazing, from guitars to solo singers with stunning voices, not to be confused with karaoke! All in all an excellent place to go any day of the week!]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Woods</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A bar with the finest selection of whisky in Bristol. Open until 4am on Friday nights and 6am on Saturdays, it has become a place where DJs, late night revellers and insomniacs congregate after everyone else has gone to bed.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Goldbrick House</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Goldbrick House is a new restaurant and bar development in Clifton. Apparently two years in the making and a cool £2m later, the project is a stunning new addition to the Bristol scene.  <br><br>The food is simply some of the best I've ever eaten in Bristol (try the scallops and beef wellington - delicious).  Staff are friendly, attentive and well informed, and the general feel of the place is very classy yet simple and unpretentious.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Renato's La Taverna Dell'Artista</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A bar and pizzeria next door to the Old Vic that stays open late into the night. Their links to the theatre are evident from all the autographed publicity mug shots of actors that hang from the walls and it's oddly enticing to pick out the celebs from these. Their oven knocks out superb thin crust pizzas throughout the night.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Bell</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A special pub tucked away in Stokes Croft with Bath Ales and locally brewed beers on tap. DJs play eclectic tunes in the evenings to a savvy crowd. There's a little beer garden out the back and they do food too, good chips.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Park</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Set up by local DJs, this is a stylish bar which can't be faulted for its music policy of funk, hip-hop, latin, soul and jazz. Great when quiet but sadly it can be a victim of its own success and get very busy.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Pipe &amp; Slippers</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Pub of the moment. A traditional style boozer that mixes in the best of bar culture. Their Portuguese chef serves up her 'petiscos' and there are Pieminister pies bought in from just down the road. DJs subtly spin their records come the evening.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mr Wolf's</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Late night bar with a combination of Chinese and Mexican on the menu. There's live music every night and open mic evenings. It's a place where Bristol bands from across the music spectrum come to play. Just beware the absinthe.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Paintworks</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A trio of brightly coloured rooftop cubes make it easy to find. The rejuvenation of this formerly dilapidated Victorian paint and varnish factory is a fine example of urban renewal. It's now an ever evolving hub of studios with an art gallery on-site. There's also the Brasilian Bocabar providing good food and drink to reward you for a trip off the beaten track.]]></description>
                
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