{"id":334017,"date":"2025-08-10T20:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334017\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:34:12","slug":"queen-camillas-son-heaps-praise-on-immaculate-restaurant-in-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334017\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla’s son heaps praise on ‘immaculate’ restaurant in Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said it ‘should grace every neighbourhood’\"RAG\u00d9RAG\u00d9 is a new Italian restaurant in Whapping Wharf(Image: Facebook\/RAG\u00d9)<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of Italian food and are on the hunt for the best new spot in Bristol, one particular restaurant has just been given a ‘royal’ stamp of approval.<\/p>\n

Tom Parker Bowles, renowned food critic and son of the Queen, recently visited Bristol to try out RAG\u00d9, a new foodie spot at Whapping Wharf which opened just a few months ago in April.<\/p>\n

Nestled inside one of the area’s repurposed shipping containers, RAG\u00d9 is the second venture from Mark Chapman and his wife Karen, who also run COR in Bedminster. Their debut neighbourhood restaurant serves up small plates, and recently retained its Bib Gourmand award from Michelin.<\/p>\n

Now, Italian restaurant RAG\u00d9 serves up fresh, mouth-watering dishes<\/a> such as proper Italian Antipasti, papardelle with wild boar and 30-month old parmesan, and even dishes served over fire, like Cornish cuttlefish, shoulder of lamb, and a Florentine T-bone steak.<\/p>\n

RAG\u00d9 also serves up a range of cheeses, desserts like cannoli, cheesecake, tiramisu, and gelato.<\/p>\n

Naturally, Tom Parker Bowles couldn’t wait to try Bristol’s new Italian hotspot – and it seems he wasn’t disappointed.<\/p>\n

Writing a review for MailOnline<\/a>, the food writer shared: “It\u2019s one of those lunches that doesn\u2019t put a foot wrong, the sort of Italian that should grace every neighbourhood. I’ve yet to have a bad lunch in what is little more than two storeys of repurposed shipping containers.”<\/p>\n

Parker Bowles writes that he first encountered Mark Chapman back when he was manning the stoves at Gambas Tapas Bar in Bristol, before he and his wife opened COR.<\/p>\n

And now that RAG\u00d9 is up and running, Parker Bowles is quick to heap praise on Chapman, writing: “He\u2019s done it again \u2013 no faff or fuss, just cooking that captures the pared-back purity of proper Italian food.”<\/p>\n

He started with the deep-fried baby artichoke with a\u00efoli, striking the perfect combination of soft heart and crisp leaves.<\/p>\n

The Tuscan mortadella was described as “lusciously piggy”, topped with cornichons and a “lusty glug of olive oil”. And he called the sea bass crudo “clean and pristine”, served with black olives and slivers of orange and onion.<\/p>\n

Parker Bowles wrote<\/a>: “Every ingredient is immaculate, and all it takes is a sprinkle of salt and still more grassy, peppery olive oil, to create a dish of pure summertime succour. Classic, but beautifully done.”<\/p>\n

And when it came to the pasta, he added: “Pasta is equally adept \u2013 tagliolini with a mass of fresh white and brown crab meat, lots of lemon, a whisper of chilli and pangritata (deep-fried breadcrumbs) for discreet crunch.”<\/p>\n

Lastly, he finished off with pudding, commenting: “For pudding, a peach and basil sorbet that\u2019s River Caf\u00e9 good. As the last of the pudding disappears, we sit back, order another glass and ease into a sun-dappled, postprandial Bristol afternoon.”<\/p>\n

You can now eat at RAG\u00d9 from 5-11pm on Mondays, and 12-11pm on Tuesday-Saturday, where dining out will cost you around \u00a335 per head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said it ‘should grace every neighbourhood’RAG\u00d9 is a new Italian restaurant in Whapping Wharf(Image: Facebook\/RAG\u00d9) If you’re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,786,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-food-and-drink","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115006385058928938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}