An old shipping container is now home to a small but perfectly formed Bristol restaurant
Box-E, Unit 10, Cargo 1, Wapping Wharf, Bristol BS1 6WP. Meal for two, including drinks and service: £85
To understand Box-E in Bristol it’s worth knowing a little about the recent history of globalisation. From the late 90s onwards Middle America became the recipient of increasing volumes of cheap consumer goods, transported by sea from China to Long Beach, California, and then onwards by rail in shipping containers. They were the product of China’s economic boom and the comparative advantage of their cheaper workforce. At first it was too expensive to ship the containers back to China and so most were scrapped once they reached Chicago.