Take Five Cafe

if you're after somewhere to sit with your laptop on a weekday morning without feeling like you need to justify the table, stokes croft tends to deliver. take five cafe sits at 72 stokes croft, right in the middle of st paul's, which is one of bristol's more genuinely lived-in neighbourhoods, the kind of street where independent spots actually get used rather than photographed. the cafe has built a solid local reputation, and that tends to happen for boring, reliable reasons: consistent coffee, a space that doesn't make you feel rushed. st paul's has its own pace, a bit looser than the centre, and the cafe fits that. worth knowing if you're navigating that end of the croft and need a cortado before anything else happens.