{"id":640969,"date":"2025-12-18T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:22:22","slug":"popular-bristol-cocktail-bar-be-at-one-closing-down-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640969\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Bristol cocktail bar Be At One closing down this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been open nearly twelve years<\/p>\n<p>14:50, 18 Dec 2025Updated 15:24, 18 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2_gettyimages-2165374264-170667a.jpg\" alt=\"The bar is set to open this October\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The bar is set to close this weekend(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A popular <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/pubs-and-bars-in-bristol\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">cocktail bar in Bristol<\/a> is closing permanently this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Be At One, which occupies a prime location on the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/clifton\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Clifton Triangle<\/a>, will host a boozy send off for its customers on Saturday (Dec 20).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The bar, part of a national chain, has been a favourite of drinkers since it opened in February 2014, primarily because of its extensive happy hours offering two cocktails for the price of one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Be At One targeted the university market, with \u00a36 cocktails on offer to students. Its menu contains over 100 different drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">In an email announcing the closure, the bar&#8217;s management thanked customers for the &#8220;wild ride&#8221; of the past 12 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;re closing our doors for the last time, December 20th,&#8221; the email said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_Screenshot-35.png\" alt=\"Be At One, Bristol\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Be At One, on the Clifton Triangle, is closing on December 20(Image: Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a wild ride and we&#8217;ve loved every second of it. All that&#8217;s left to do now is thank you for every cocktail shaken, every party thrown and every memory made.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Be At One is part of hospitality giant Stonegate Group. According to the Stonegate website, the forecast annual turnover for the Bristol Be At One is \u00a3445,642.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A Stonegate Group spokesperson said the venue would be be &#8220;transitioning to a Stonegate Pub Partners venue&#8221; which would open in the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The other Be At One branches in the South West, in Bath and Bournemouth, are not known to be affected by the Bristol closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">At least 37 bars and restaurants have already closed, or announced their closures, in Bristol so far this year. A notable recent example was <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/whats-on\/whats-on-news\/beloved-bristol-italian-restaurant-close-10609105\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Don Giovanni&#8217;s opposite Temple Meads Station<\/a>. The beloved Italian restaurant&#8217;s owner Andy Firetto announced the closure at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Don Giovanni&#8217;s, a staple of the Bristol food scene for 44 years, will continue trading until January next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The vast majority of the bars and restaurants to close so far this year have been independent businesses. But another chain to close this year was <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/whats-on\/food-drink\/popular-bristol-harvester-restaurant-closed-10238929\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">the Harvester in Bradley Stoke<\/a>, which shut down permanently in June. It has since been replaced by a branch of another chain, Lounge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Be At One&#8217;s management urged customers to come in for one last hurrah just before Christmas. &#8220;We&#8217;d love to see you one last time before we hang up the blue and gold,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Join us this week and help us go out with a BANG!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been open nearly twelve years 14:50, 18 Dec 2025Updated 15:24, 18 Dec 2025 The bar is set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[15721,381,748,18959,393,786,4884,9028,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-640969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bradley-stoke","9":"tag-bristol","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-clifton","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-food-and-drink","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-pubs-and-bars-in-bristol","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115742676011981504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640969","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=640969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}