What Happened to Prosecco After Best Local Restaurant? (Bristol, UK)
The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant, Season 1 Bristol, South West England
Current status
As of October 2026, Prosecco is listed closed on Google, reviewed by our team on October 20, 2026 and cross-checked against gb.automapa.com; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact with the business.
What the source shows: A Google Maps listing checked 2026-10-20 shows a different business, Milk Bun (burger restaurant), operating at 25 The Mall, Clifton, Bristol BS8 4JG, the address an undated Automapa directory entry gives for Prosecco. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 1
- Aired
- Address 25 The Mall, Clifton Village, Bristol BS8 4JG
- Website No current website found
We have not confirmed map coordinates for this address yet.
What happened after The F Word: Britain's Best Local Restaurant?
Prosecco, an Italian restaurant listed in Clifton Village, Bristol, was one of the 18 local restaurants in series 5 of Gordon Ramsay's The F Word, the Channel 4 search for Britain's best local restaurant that began airing in November 2009. It met Salvo's of Leeds in the opening Italian heat, shown on 2009-11-03 under the episode title "Italian Restaurants". Wikipedia's series table lists Prosecco at 71 out of 100 against 73 for Salvo's, and it does not appear in the semi-final line-ups on that page.
The same page says the finalists served signature dishes to panels of diners at their own restaurants, but none of the sources read for this entry describes Prosecco's own menu or specialty. Harden's Bristol and Clifton Italian restaurant pages, read the same day, do not list it, though those pages show only a selection of local restaurants.
An Automapa address directory, undated, lists a restaurant called Prosecco at 25 The Mall, Bristol BS8 4JG. A Google Maps listing checked 2026-10-20 shows a different business at that address, Milk Bun, a burger restaurant, operating, with the newest reviews dated 2026-08-27. A SquareMeal page for Milk Bun, carrying a customer review dated 2025-09-30, gives the same address.
The episode
Also in Season 1
Season 1: 9 of 18 still open · 2 renamed, moved or under new owners
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Ep 1Salvo's
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Ep 2Curry Corner
Open -
Ep 2Lasan India
Open -
Ep 3Bouchon Bistro
Open -
Ep 3French Table
Open -
Ep 4Chop Chop
Closed -
Ep 4Sweet Mandarin
Open -
Ep 5Simply Thai
Closed
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Sources we checked
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_F_Word_(British_TV_series)
- hardens.com https://www.hardens.com/restaurants/bristol/italian/
- hardens.com https://www.hardens.com/restaurants/clifton/italian/
- Google Maps https://maps.google.com/?cid=15771213230896003505
- gb.automapa.com https://gb.automapa.com/restaurant-prosecco_25_the_mall_bristol_bs8_4jg~1175954049
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Record fwl-002 · checked by Cal Marchetti.