Open-fire kitchen · Bristol Harbourside
Cooked over embers, eaten slowly
A short menu that changes with the market, a wine list with genuine opinions, and a dining room built for long evenings.
Copper Lantern
Welcome to The Copper Lantern
We opened in a former chandlery on Welsh Back in 2017 with one wood-fired grill and eighteen covers. The grill is still the centre of everything. Almost all of our produce comes from within seventy miles, the menu is rewritten every fortnight, and nothing leaves the pass that the head chef has not looked at.
8
Years on the harbour
70mi
Sourcing radius
180
Bins on the wine list
2AA
Rosettes awarded
The offering
Dinner Service
£48 for three coursesA short seasonal à la carte cooked over embers, rewritten every fortnight.
Chef's Table & Tasting
£85 per personEight courses at the counter, facing the fire, with optional wine flight.
Sunday Lunch
£32 per personWhole joints over fire, all the trimmings, and no rush to turn the table.
Private Dining
From £65 per headThe Chandlery Room seats up to thirty for celebrations and company dinners.
Events & Catering
By quoteWhole-restaurant hire, wedding breakfasts and off-site fire catering.
Our Spaces
Four rooms, four moods — from a counter seat facing the fire to a private dining room for thirty.
The Dining Room
48 covers
The Chef's Counter
6 seats
The Chandlery Room
Up to 30
The Harbour Terrace
24 covers · seasonal
Our table
Since 2017
The Copper Lantern began in 2017 in a former ship chandlery on Welsh Back, with eighteen covers, one wood grill and a menu written on a chalkboard each morning.
The chalkboard has gone, the grill has not. We still write the menu around what the farms and the day boats actually have, and we still name every supplier on the page.
- Tuesday – Thursday5:30pm – 10:00pm
- Friday – Saturday12:00pm – 11:00pm
- Sunday12:00pm – 6:00pm
“The best meal we've eaten in Bristol, and we've eaten a lot of them.”
“They hosted forty of us for our company dinner and made it feel like a private house, not a function room.”
“Sunday lunch here ruined every other Sunday lunch for me. Sincere apologies to my mother.”