Café & Bar

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Café & Bar

Our Café & Bar is the perfect social space overlooking Bristol’s vibrant Harbourside. It's open 7 days a week and offers coffees, teas, light bites and main meals - plus free WiFi.

Our food menu includes vegan and vegetarian dishes, plus a children's menu and our famous Watershed nachos.

Opening times

A reminder of our Christmas and New Year opening hours: we are closed on Tue 24, Wed 25 and Thu 26 Dec, and open from 12 Noon on Fri 27 Dec. Then all as normal until Tue 31 Dec, when we’ll close early at 18:00 (we will of course be open for our New Year’s Eve Party), and we’ll be back open on Wed 1 Jan 2025 at 12 Noon.

Open seven days a week:

  • Mon: 12:00
  • Tue – Fri: 9:30
  • Sat & Sun: 10:00

Food served:

  • Monday: 12:00 – 20:00.
  • Tuesday - Saturday: 12:00 – 21:00
  • Sunday: 12:00 – 20:00.

Menus

A selection of food available in the Café & Bar.

Downloadable Menus

We pride ourselves in sourcing our food and drink from people we know and trust in the South West.

Food and Cocktail Menu

Drinks Menu

Allergens List

Diagram showing the Café & Bar's local suppliers

We love local

Food, drink, coffee and more...

We love working with our Bristol and South West-based suppliers to give you the best taste of our region.


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Visiting and using the Café & Bar

Booking information

There is no need to book a table in advance, just find a spot for yourself when you arrive.

You can still reserve a table by emailing the Café & Bar team if you'd like to.

Ordering Food & Drink

You can order food and drink at any part of the bar.

Your food and/or drinks will be delivered to your table.

A bottle of Watershed Gin presented on the bar in the Café & Bar.

Watershed Gin

Now serving.

We've partnered with 6 O'Clock Gin to create our very own London Dry Gin. Serving exclusively in the Café & Bar.


Photo of mulled apple juice, mulled wine and hot chocolate.

Warm Up at Watershed

For a limited time.

It's cold outside so come enjoy seasonal mulled treats, brewed right here in-house, deliciously rich Hot Chocolate (with or without Baileys).


A member of the Café & Bar team holds a drink to the camera from the Undershed Bar.

Undershed Bar

Reopening later this year

Undershed Bar is our outside bar on the Harbourside walkway (just next door to our main entrance) where we serve our Café & Bar menu as well as hot and cold drinks, beers and wines, and ice cream.


Access

Photo of David Ellington signing in Watershed Café & Bar

At Watershed we want to be as welcoming, inclusive and accessible as we can for all our customers, audiences, staff and visitors. 

Our building is accessible, our customer facing staff have received basic BSL and D/deaf awareness training and we run an accessible programme of screenings and events. We have both gender neutral and gender specific toilets alongside two accessible toilets.

Further access details


A heart made out of vegetables and fruit

Cinébites

Our Film + Meal deal on Tuesdays

Every Tuesday (from 12:00 - 21:00) cinema ticket holders can get 30% off any of the main dishes from our menu in the Café & Bar with our Cinébites deal.


Further information

Dietary requirements

If you'd like to know more about what ingredients are used in our food, please download our allergen list

Please note

We politely ask our customers not to consume their own food in our Café & Bar.

Contact

For any further enquiries:

For location, access info, general transport and parking options for Watershed:

Go to our visit page