It has not one but two deer heads, a table made out of a bass drum, a ship’s bell and a television in a wooden box straight out of the 1940s.
It even has a time machine:
All of the above curios can be found in the newly expanded Old Bookshop bar on North Street in Bedminster which has just doubled in size.
It’s still the Old Bookshop, but not as you know it.
Taking over the former beautician next door has enabled the design touches of the bar’s family owners to run riot.
The Old Bookshop now has two bars. The original hasn’t moved, but it’s now joined by a new bar next door hemmed in by white butchers tiles, with red bar stools positioned around a bar most of which is made out of an old chest of drawers.
This bar has Thatchers Gold and Korev on tap but is primarily a late-night cocktail bar, soon to be launched as Cocktails at Number 63, watched over at all times by a taxidemied barn owl and when I visited on Sunday evening staffed by a barmaid wearing a fetching red fez.
The Old Bookshop has been open for less than two years and swiftly become one of Bristol’s best bars. Thanks to this expansion, it has just become even better.
