slow saturday mornings on the esplanade side of portishead have a particular quality to them, the kind where you're not in a hurry and you don't need to be. café lido sits on esplanade road in a part of bristol's coastal fringe where the water is close and the pace tends to follow. locals have settled on it as a reliable go-to, which in a town this size means something, because word travels fast and tolerance for mediocrity is low. you're not coming here to be impressed by spectacle. you're coming because you want a coffee that's been thought about, in a place that's been figured out. the cortado on a weekday morning, before the esplanade fills up, is probably the version of this visit worth planning around.
curated by gautam khorana, editor · updated
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