The Llandoger Trow is a 17th-century timbered pub on King Street, its five gabled bays making it one of Bristol's most photographed buildings. The pub opened around 1664 and has accumulated more than its fair share of legend — Daniel Defoe meeting the castaway Alexander Selkirk here, Stevenson using it as inspiration for Treasure Island — some verified, some embellished, all entertaining.
The interior has been modified over the centuries but retains a period character, with low ceilings, old beams, and the slightly irregular geometry of a building that has been added to and adjusted across 350 years. It is also said to be haunted, which appeals to a certain type of visitor. The pub is part of a small cluster of historic buildings on King Street — the almshouses opposite, the Bristol Old Vic next door, the Old Duke jazz pub further along — that makes this one of the best streets in the city for an atmospheric evening.