We compare coffees at four trendy Bristol cafes as more chains arrive

In leafy Clifton , coffee lovers are spoilt for choice when it comes to getting a caffeine fix. In a familiar contest playing out across the city, and the country, local independents battle it out with increasingly upmarket chains for coffee supremacy.

We tried two of each, all within walking distance of each other, to see which came up on top.

My first visit was to One B on Cotham Hill, inspired by a playful sign a friend had noticed outside a few days before which read, “Better than Gails! Support your local.”

Feeling this would clearly be the best place to start my daring exposé, I charged in and asked the slightly bemused barista a series of serious questions about whether the new Gail's nearby was squeezi

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