27 restaurants, pubs and cafes in Bath offering meal deals for a tenner for Great Bath Feast

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Treat yourself to a £10 meal at one of Bath’s amazing eateries this Autumn.

As part of the Great Bath Feast, restaurants, pubs and cafes across the city are serving up delicious meals for a bargain.

Whether you are into pies and pints, tea and scones or fine dining, there is something here to suit all taste buds.

1. 3 Café Kitchen

Three Ways School, 180 Frome Road, Bath, BA25RF

3 Café Kitchen will be serving up a large sharing platter including seasonal salads, terrines and tarts with a slow cooked roast and the café’s famous scones. All their food is locally sourced and home cooked.

This newly opened café offers young work experience and training to young people with special needs.

5.30 and 8pm sittings; visit website for full opening hours.

2. The Abbey Hotel

1-3 North Parade, Bath, BA1 1LF

The Abbey Hotel

Relax with a glass of house wine or beer served with two delicious bar snacks (salt cod croquettes, scotched quail’s eggs & salt and pepper squid and) at The Abbey Hotel’s stylish ArtBar.

Please quote ‘Tenner Treat’ when ordering.

3. Bailbrook House Hotel

Eveleigh Avenue, Bath, BA1 7JD

Indulge in a hearty roast dinner and a drink in the Cloisters Restaurant at Bailbrook House Hotel for £10 per person. Booking essential.

4. Bailbrook House Hotel

Eveleigh Avenue, Bath, BA1 7JD

Somerset Cream Tea for two people for £10 (usual price £8.95 per person) at Bailbrook House Hotel. Booking essential.

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5. Bath Pizza Co

Green Park Station, Bath, BA1 1JB

£10 will get you a get a pizza and drink (pint of beer, glass of Prosecco, or a soft drink.)

6. The Bath Pub Tour

Crystal Palace, 10 – 11 Abbey Green, Bath, BA1 1NW

Sample ales, ciders & historic gastro-snacks on The Bath Pub Tour. £10 for two participants. Pickled egg prizes have been promised!

7. Belushi’s

9 Green Street, Bath, BA1 2JY

You can’t go wrong with this one. A Belushi’s Burger and drink for £10.

8. The Boater

9 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ

Potty about pies? The Boater will be serving up a pie (different ones every day) and a pint of London Pride for £10 from 12noon-9pm every day throughout the entire duration of The Great Bath Feast.

Veggie option/alternative soft drink are available as part of the same deal.

9. Bookbarn International (Full Stop Cafe)

Unit 1, Hallatrow Business Park, Wells Rd, High Littleton, Bristol BS39 6EX

Get two Classic British ‘Ploughman’s’ for just £10 in this lovely book café.

This rural gem make their own jam and chutney as well as cakes, soups and salads.

No booking necessary, served all day.

10. CAU Bath

1-2 Milsom Place, Bath, BA1 1BZ

Live on the wild side with a brunch-time Mimosa cocktail and a brunch dish for a tenner.

Served 9am-12noon every day throughout The Great Bath Feast.

11. Chez Dominique

15 Argyle Street, Bath, BA2 4BQ

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Cornish mussels in a cider, leek and Alsace bacon broth, paired with an 175ml glass of Jean de Laroche Sauvignon Blanc for £10. Close your eyes and you could be in France…

Terms and Conditions: offer available Monday–Friday lunchtimes and Monday–Thursday evenings, 5:30pm–7pm.

Upgrade your Tenner Treat to include a glass of Prosecco by presenting your LUX Rewards card on arrival!

12. The Clifton Sausage

5 Bladud Buildings, The Paragon, Bath, BA1 5LS

The Clifton Sausage

Spoil yourself with a trio of gourmet sausages (Bath Blue cheese & leek, Clifton and Old Spot Pork) served with creamy mash and homemade gravy. A glass of wine or a soft drink is thrown in for £10.

Upgrade your Tenner Treat to include a glass of Prosecco by presenting your LUX Rewards card on arrival!

13. Coffee2Go

500 Wellsway, Bath, BA2 2UD

Two large coffees, two meals with toppings, and four snacks (crisps or flapjacks) for £10.

14. Combe Grove

Brassknocker Hill, Bath, BA2 7HU

Devour a top-notch 2-course lunch and enjoy the breathtaking views across the rolling Limpley Stoke Valley hills.

15. Garfunkel’s

The Empire, Orange Grove, Bath, BA1 1LP

Family favourites burgers, rotisserie chicken and wraps plus yummy puds will be on offer at The Empire. 2 courses for £10. Perfect venue for the whole family.

16. The Garrick’s Head

St Johns Place, Bath, BA1 1ET

Nosh to make you happy. A hot salt beef roll and a pint of Garrick’s Head ale is yours for just £10.

17. Giraffe World Kitchen

8 Dorchester Street, Bath, BA1 1SS

Lovely liquids here. £10 will get you a bottle of house wine to share, two scrumptious cocktails or four Coronas. Available Sunday – Friday 17.00-23.00

18. Graze Bath

9 Brunel Square, Bath, BA1 1SX

All Hail the Ale! Grab Handcrafted pie are made with Bath Ales’ seasonal Forest Hare ale and a Bath Ales pint for £10.

19. Hilton Bath City Hotel

Walcot Street, Bath, BA1 5BJ

Enjoy the elegant side of Bath with afternoon tea at the Hilton Bath City Hotel.

Served in the renowned Atelier Restaurant, the views of Bath’s historic Pulteney Bridge will ensure you have the best seat in the house.

20. Jamie’s Italian

10 Milsom Place, Bath, BA1 1BZ

Glass of red and a pizza at Jamie’s for £10. Delizioso!

21. The Mint Room

Longmead Gospel Hall, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, BA2 3EB

Cool, contemporary and chic, enjoy a lunch & drink at Bath’s popular Indian restaurant The Mint Room.

Upgrade your Tenner Treat to include a glass of Prosecco by presenting your LUX Rewards card on arrival!

22. Newton Farm Shop

Newton St Loe, Bath, BA2 9BT

Are chutneys, pickles and preserves your bag? Local producers In a Pickle are offering three jars for £10. Enjoy the free samples to help you pick your favourites!

23. The Pump Room

Stall Street, Bath, BA1 1LZ

A visit to the historic The Pump Room is always a treat but have you ever been there for brunch? Wake up to a Bucks Fizz Breakfast: your choice of Eggs Benedict or Eggs Florentine accompanied by a glass of Bucks Fizz for £10

Running from 9.30am-11.45am every day throughout the entire duration of The Great Bath Feast.

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24. Robert Welch Designs*

6 Broad Street, Bath, BA1 5LJ

Stylish and sleek, Robert Welch Signature Stainless Steel Kitchen Utensils will be on offer for only £10 (representing a saving of £6 off the RRP) throughout The Great Bath Feast.

25. The Roman Baths Kitchen

Abbey Churchyard, 
Bath, BA1 1LY

Roman Baths Kitchen

Located in the beautiful Abbey churchyard in Bath, The Roman Baths Kitchen are serving up two courses for £10 from 12noon-close every day throughout the The Great Bath Feast.

26. The Salamander

3 John Street, Bath, BA1 2JL

Two pub sandwiches for just £10 in one of Bath’s coziest pubs.

27. San Francisco Fudge Factory

6 Church Street, Abbey Green, Bath, BA1 1NL

Fancy fudge and a glass of Prosecco al-fresco-style all for a tenner.
Terms and Conditions: offer available Monday-Friday only.

The Great Bath Feast will be running from Saturday September 23 to Sunday, October 8.

Welcome to the rise of 'no frills' (and sometimes no towels) hotels

Read article : Welcome to the rise of 'no frills' (and sometimes no towels) hotels

Lianne Livingstone, a Canadian living in Luxembourg, recently stayed in an F1 hotel – a famously cheap French chain – near Amsterdam with her husband and two children. “The facility itself was fine if you were super strapped, and it was clean,” Livingstone says. “But the beds were probably the cheapest, most solid beds I’ve slept on, and the linens were practically transparent.”

Welcome to the rise of “no frills” (and sometimes no towels) hotels. As more and more hotels across the globe are adding a mind-boggling number of amenities and extras – from free minibars and laundry facilities to bath butlers and pet concierges – there’s also a parallel, but polar opposite, trend of hotels stripped down to the barest essentials.

Tune Hotels, a Malaysian chain with properties in Asia and the UK, offer bare bones and cheap accommodations, but if you want towels, a safe and a TV, or even a window, you’ll have to pay extra. Tune Hotels is in the midst of opening seven hotels across the UK, including several properties in London.

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Meanwhile, EasyHotel – owned by EasyJet – has now opened up in several countries across Europe and recently announced several new hotels in the Middle East. They’re explicit that guests will be sacrificing “a bit of luxury space” in return for cheaper rates. The staffing is minimal, the rooms are tiny, and the TV, WiFi and even luggage storage come àla carte.

Even several big chains – including Holiday Inn Express and Hilton – have started offering “value rooms” with no room service and limited amenities.

But are these bare-bones hotels worth the savings? And where does this new proliferation of budget hotels fit into a hospitality world where one high-end hotel – the Park Hyatt Vienna – will actually take your dog out for an evening at the opera?

For some, ultra-budget accommodations fall on the grim end of the hospitality spectrum.Michele Sponagle from Paris, Ont. found that her biggest issue at the F1 hotel in Avignon was the communal bathroom. “The shower room was pretty yucky, with hair and soap bits swimming around the drain,” she says. (She stuck her feet in two plastic shopping bags so she didn’t have to touch the floor.)

Shared bathrooms have long been a feature of budget accommodations in hostels and small guest rooms the world over. Some amenities – a lack of canine opera excursions, for example – are rarely considered deal breakers. As people increasingly rely on their computers to binge watch crime procedurals and even stream the local news, a television might no longer be the essential service it once was. Others amenities, such as paying extra for a room with a window at a Tune Hotel, might well be worth the splurge.

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While many hotels report that guests don’t like the feeling of being “nickel and dimed” – an assumption that has led many luxury properties to roll things like breakfast and minibars into the overall room cost – these budget properties give guests the ability to pick and choose, opting out of, say, the hairdryer they were never going to use anyway.

Julia Buckley from Cornwall, UK has stayed at Tune Hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and London. “I really like the fact that it’s a hostel price, but of a certain standard,” she says. “The rooms will be clean and, if you pay for the extras like WiFi and windows, it ends up feeling like a normal hotel, but still cheaper. The only thing I didn’t like is the really cruddy toiletries they give you, but I learned that lesson after Kuala Lumpur and brought my own to the rest.”

As with cheaper airfares, à la carte hotel options can add up if you choose every optional amenity. At the Tune Hotel Liverpool Street in London, the cheapest room starts at £66 – an extraordinarily reasonable sum in a city where the average hotel room costs more than double that. But Tune Hotels also offers a full list of à la carte options that can be added to the tab, including room cleaning (£8), early check in or late check out (£15), television or Wi-Fi (£4 per night each), towel and toiletry kit with soap and shampoo (£2), and a hair dryer or in-room safe (£2).

These budget hotels align nicely with the parallel trend of declining airfares, and a broader trend often referred to as the democratization of travel. Flying across the globe used to be an elite privilege for the few; now, teenagers book intercontinental travel and all-inclusive vacations for spring break. Budget hotel rooms are helping make tourism that much more accessible. Swidlicka, who has stayed in two windowless EasyHotel rooms in London, says that these economical services are ideal for DIY travellers, backpackers, young couples, students “and other people with low budgets and big dreams.”

Cheap, after all, is tempting. Sponagle says that despite her less-than-ideal initial experience, she would be game to stay at an F1 hotel in the future – especially now that she knows the ropes. “I’d pack flip flops for the shower room,” Sponagle says. For an amazingly affordable €45 a night, it certainly wasn’t all bad, she says. “I lived to tell the tale.”