The Beckford Bottle Shop

I very much enjoyed the small plates menu with my partner at the Beckford Bottle Shop along with a few glasses of wine each. Our server Travis was very knowledgeable and attentive. He provided us with some great recommendations and really added to our experience. Needless to say, there is a huge selection of wine. The food surpassed our expectations - we enjoyed wine but would go back again for the food too!

Staff are very knowledgeable, honest and clearly passionate about wine and the food. We had lunch here and food was excellent, we ate most they had on offer and I don't think you can go wrong ordering anything, it was some of the best food we had while in bath. We also got a couple of bottles to take away with recommendations which didn't disappoint. You also get a bit of a discount on buying bottles if you have eaten which is good. If I came back to bath I wouldn't hesitate to eat here again.

We stopped in for a drink after dinner. There are a number of tables and a large relaxed sofa area at the back. We enjoyed a great bottle of wine from their large selection. The small plates of for looked good but we'd already eaten. This felt like a 'grown ups' place with a great atmosphere and nothing too banging. We look forward to coming back.

Delicious food, friendly staff and cool environment. Restaurant is basically within a wine shop, which they have a large selections of good wine, that can pair with some very delicious food. Staffs were very friendly and professional (especially on wine suggestions). I think it was great that I will visit again in the future and recommend to friends and family.

Favourite dinner that we had in Bath! Atmosphere was so lovely and cosy, staff were really friendly and so helpful with the menu etc. And then the food and wine was just incredible! Really interesting flavours but we loved everything we tried.

Lovely staff and atmosphere, but slightly disappointed by the small plates. Nothing was awful, it was all just okay. The zucchini fritters had quite a dense batter, the venison and quince was cooked well but just placed on the plate with some greens and could have done with a sauce, the sprouts in xo sauce had no colour on them, the mackerel was slightly bland. The boar and venison pigs in blankets weren’t too bad. Would come back but probably just for drinks.

We had two absolutely amazing meals here—an evening of sharing plates and lovely wines, and then an absolutely stunning “supper club” evening of small dishes paired with amazing vintages. We were sat at a long common table next to people to whom we chatted and joked for two hours—how did the hosts know who to sit us next to? But somehow they did. Delicious food and a totally delightful experience.

Amazing restaurant, awful service. I hate to write a bad review as someone who works in hospitality but this was a particularly bad experience ! Today we headed to the beckfrord bottle shop for some dinner and a glass of wine. We were told that we had the table until 8pm which we expressed was completely fine ! However, the waitress (dark hair, glasses and checked grey overshirt) made us feel totally uncomfortable from the moment we arrived. We were rushed to order drink and then food, she was panicked almost from the moment we sat down. We asked for a minute so we could all discuss what we wanted to order and she was clearly very unimpressed at this. Everything seemed fine again and different members of staff brought us our food and were friendly and accommodating. Then it came to 7.40pm and the rushing and rudeness came back and worse. She asked us to pay the bill and we explained we’d already understood that we had to be done by 8 so could we enjoy our glasses of wine and pay at the end of the meal. She came back 2 minutes later and forced us to pay the bill with 20 minutes to go. This shouldn’t even have been on our mind, as we were trying to enjoy a nice meal. Why did there have to be such a stress on the time limit when being out for dinner ! As I mentioned above, I work in hospitality and I’m very used to annoying customers etc. However, we are a pretty laid back group of people. This was such a shame as the food and wine was amazing, really she ruined what could have been such a lovely evening! I think maybe the waitress needed a break ?