Best One

This is quite a good convenience store, loyally serving the folks of St Werburghs. Sharing space with the post office, and also hosting a DVD rental shop, it’s something of a multi-​functional community hub. The stock is pretty good for this sort of shop, and it also carries quite a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables. Nicely laid out, with baskets so you can actually pick up quite a lot of things during your trip, it makes for a good convenience shopping experience.
With this part of Bristol being quite opposed to the big chain supermarkets, the focus is very much on buying food from small businesses, wholefoods shops and corner shops, so this place has the happy vibe of being appreciated by the loyal people who live nearby.

The Best One newsagents on Mina Road is, as the name would suggest, quite a good little shop. I don’t know if I would go so far as to call it the best but it’s certainly up there. Aside from the comic value of selling faggots for £1.50 there’s nothing over the top to report.
They sell all the standards you’d expect from newspapers and magazines to packs of sweets and chocolates. There’s a good range of beer and wine as well as your typical off license spirits. This is actually quite a good place to find a nice bottle of reasonable plonk for a fiver. They’re very friendly and polite and open every day, and that’ about it.
A good, solid newsagent. But The Good One isn’t as catchy as The Best One is it?