Landing in the heart of Bedminster, OTHER is a new and independently owned restaurant on Dean Lane. The menu pays particular attention to snacks, bigger plates and desserts, but is always quite small in size, using locally sourced ingredients and produce. The restaurant is bright and colourful, with modern, shocking orange furnishings and warm lighting. Doors are open for dinner Wednesday through to Saturday, with the addition of lunch on Saturdays.
Choose from small plates of in-house smoked and seasoned peanuts, homemade crisps with a sweet pepper satay and chicken and sesame toast with chilli jam, harissa mayo and pickled sumac onions. An unusual and delicious pairing is found in the seven hour smoked sheep neck with umeboshi plum sauce, and the delicious tempura pollock with beer braised tomatoes and green salsa.
Main meals may be the char siu pork belly with a chicken liver parfait, banh mi salad, BBQ shokupan and roasted garlic butter, or a fish special. Enhance your meal with sides of confit potatoes, roasted sand carrots with radicchio, chickpeas and feta, or a little gem salad with lettuce pesto, lemon dressing and everything bagel seasoning.
If you never leave a meal without a sweet treat to finish, order the lemon meringue pie with lemon custard, citrus jam, a blood orange toasted meringue and rye digestive biscuit, and a glass of dessert wine to wash it all down. There are vegetarian and vegan menus, too, with pretty identical dishes made using alternative ingredients.