STREET LIFE From Lona to Boston Tea Party to Café Dreams, you won’t struggle to find a decent cup of Joe or a meal on the Glo Road
Can you tell us a bit about the art banners? The plan is to put up lovely colourful banners on all the lampposts along Gloucester Road, using artwork by Bristol artists. We are starting with Gloucester Road Central, and hope to spread it up and down the road. Tell us about a few of your own favourites Lona creates fresh juices, and they’re about to open a separate dessert and ice-cream place. Pizzarova does fresh pizzas, Golden Lion is my friendly local, buzzing with live music most nights. Nuala Morey has lovely, friendly hair stylists and a beautiful salon. There are far too many wonderful cafés to mention, along with our award-winning fish & chippy, Bishopston Fish Bar. Is it true that you never need to visit a supermarket if you live on the Glo Road? Yes! Joe’s Bakery has a wonderful variety of
freshly-baked breads and cakes, Pawsons is a fruit and veg shop stocking everything from the usual to the exotic, and Giles Butcher has a wide range, including the Bishopston Banger. And if we’re just browsing for treats, clothing or gifts? Oddsox has really cool shoes for kids, which also go up to adult sizes. All the art galleries and gift shops offer a really wide variety of work by different Bristol artists – try Fig, Artemis and Paper Plane. We have two great bike shops – Rollquick even rebuilds bikes by upcycling from vintage ones – and Luna Optical is a really wonderful opticians. Can you tell us a bit about the My Wild City campaign, and GRC’s role in it? The My Wild City campaign seeks to help pollinators such as bees exist in the builtup environment of Bristol. I am a ‘Wildlife w
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