Matt K.
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Honestly very surprised I haven't reviewed this place before now!
Wilson's is our favourite Bristol restaurant and its recent Michelin star has been a long time coming. The fixed single price tasting menu is always different and in the times we have been there I have never had the same dish twice.
The photos are from last night's visit which was one of the most enjoyable menus I have eaten anywhere, even the "bread and butter" wasn't with chicken liver parfait, sardines in a nori tart added for good measure.
I did not have the crab because, alas, crab hates me. What I did have was a bean stew with a mushroom foam and a cured egg-yolk which was rather funny as my wife and I had just been joking about the lack of a "difficult egg" course. This hit all the right notes, I could eat a bucket of it.
Monkfish was perfectly cooked (as you would expect) with some fantastic accompanying flavours which I will be attempting to replicate as soon as I aquire some.
The Pheasant was a revelation, I have eaten it before but not done this well, and the "Kentucky Fried Pheasant" thighs on skewers that came with it provided texture without needing crunchy carbs. As a side note, they should be selling bags of that stuff as a takeaway.
Desserts were, as they always are, bonkers. Somewhere there is an evil genius concocting flavour combinations that really shouldn't work but somehow do. Celeriac ice cream? I have had roast potato ice cream in this place before.
All in all, a great night out although marred slightly by two things.
1) it needed just a little bit more light for a dark Halloween evening.
2) the chairs are very light, so when I stood up after enjoying the excellent wine pairings, my seat decided to accept the invitation to lie down. Sorry about that guys.
All in all, an establishment you really need to visit if you have the opportunity. Book though, it's getting busy and long may it continue to do so!