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After being closed for the past seven weeks for renovations, Bristol Bar will be swinging their doors back open on Friday night with a couple of changes and refinements to the layout, the menu, and the overall concept.
Regular customers will notice immediately that the drink menu has gone through an overhaul. Several of the most popular cocktails will be making a return, while others have been scrapped in favor of new additions. Most noticeably is the shift from vodka-based martini drinks to the newer trend of more classically-prepared cocktails. To keep it fun, a sno-cone machine has been added to the arsenal to provide booze-soaked cones to help cool off the warm summer nights.
The revamped layout of the venue may also surprise returning customers. Upon entering, you’ll be greeted with a new entry-way vestibule that will combat the cold during the winter months. The bar in the front room has been converted from a U-shape into an L-shape that removes the former bottleneck for patrons and streamlines the service workflow for bartenders. The side room now features a second full-serivce bar along the back wall that also contains a permanent DJ booth space and a service window opening outside to the back patio. Construction photos from earlier this week are below:
The decor largely remains similar with dark floors, candle-lit lighting, and brick walls throughout. Some of the materials from the old bartops were recycled and repurposed for the new space, while granite countertops are a new addition.
Regular business hours have been adjusted to run Monday through Saturday, 9pm to 2:30am, so the popular happy hour specials are disappearing. Special events will include a mix of dj and live music entertainment. The grand opening on Friday includes djs 9Star and Delcina (Listen Residents), Ororo, Plural, Placebo, Fabyan, Mike Salalmon, Jules – JR, DJ 5AM, and MPK.
More information can be found online at BristolBar.com.
I’ve lived within a 5 minute walking distance from Bristol, but never had the desire to go. However, alcoholic Sno Cones might change my mind.
What if they serve an Ass Sandwich will you still go Lisa? sorry I had to.
I was once served a wasabi martini there and got it in my eye…Needless to say I went back many times.
I need to fire my contractor and hire theirs.
I went back many times too… it won’t be the same without Yohman behind the bar… I doubt I’ll ever go back :-(
Didn’t realise they were closed. I haven’t been there in ages, at least since Garnet was a bartender.
Well, I understand, but sometimes change is good, right?
Change is good… That space hasn’t been the same since Garnet left for grad school, and a lot of it has to do with the negativity behind the bar. Yeah, Yohman can make a great drink, but is it any accident that every bar that he’s been a part of has quickly gone under or downhill? Good for you, Bristol!
That is so not true… the place was going under before Yohman and then it experienced 2 great years with him! I agree that change can be good but any bar owner who fires an entire staff with families to feed without even telling them first deserves to be shot. I hope the place where I work never changes its locks on me. :-/
Ok, so let’s be honest here. Would you change the locks on your car/house/apartment/etc unless you felt like it was your only option left. If being closed was better than being open, than how bad was it under the leadership of the bar? Pretty bad, right?
@ Bristol: No, you wouldn’t change the locks and close unless you had no choice.
@ Badner: Virus, 8. And please remember that Yohman was at Bristol during the time it was “going under” and was let go… He’s only been back for a year… The success at Bristol in the past two years had more to do with the music and less to do with a hot-head bartender. Again, the man makes a great drink, but so do quite a few bartenders in this city. And as a business owner, you have to do what makes sense for the business — a loose canon does not make sense.
This seems to be a pretty misguided thread… the skinny is that the bartenders and management had to put up with a lying, manipulative owner who sabotaged the buisness at all costs! who ever heard of an owner not buying liquer or light bulbs? who ever heard of bartenders and management having to bring in their own money to buy liquer of fund the banks,promotors haveing to assume all the costs while he(the owner) reaps the rewards? Maybe the everyday customer doesnt know that? Maybe they never know that while they were enjoying themselves the owner was always away on vaction and that other than a building, the fun contained inside was at the cost of someone else!
Not communicating with your staff to let them know the business is going under is plain irresponsible. Talk about a new twist on no call no show.
You are right nite owl. Very often the bartenders did buy the booze as we watched them actually make the “runs”. Second the DJs lost very expensive equipment and were also never paid… Ladytron you can try to make it sound like Yohman was the bad guy but you obviously don’t know anything about it or you would know that only one person EVER got paid and he wasn’t a bartender, dj, or promoter. Todd Anderson is the bad guy. Also who prints a menu that was created by Yohman and then adds a drink which is meant for nothing else but libel? It’s low, childish, and sick! I will never ever go back to that place or give Todd one cent of my money… he truly doesn’t deserve it!