Eating out in Liverpool, restaurant and food guide

The Thorn Inn, Appleton, Cheshire Oct 12 2007

SUNDAY afternoons are made for drives in the country. And that was what we had been enjoying on the afternoon when we found ourselves dining in the cosy surroundings of The Thorn Inn, at Appleton.Read

London Road, Restaurant and Wine Bar, Alderley Edge Oct 05 2007

ANYONE trying to deny Alderley Edge’s reputation as the spiritual home for moneyed show-offs would have given up and gone home, following the display I had the pleasure of witnessing there recently.Read

Meze, Eastgate Row North, Chester Sep 28 2007

ASCENDING the steps on to Eastgate Street Row, we were in a decidedly daggers-drawn frame of mind.Read

Pastarazzi, Grosvenor Street, Chester Sep 14 2007

Revisiting an old haunt, Glyn Mon Hughes finds a completely different ambience for a night outRead

Mayur Indian Restaurant, Duke Street, Liverpool Sep 07 2007

ANY homemade attempt at curry tends to run the culinary spectrum of agreeable spicy mush to cultural abomination; eating out, I am probably the kind of diner Sanjeev Baskar had in mind when he thought up Goodness Gracious Me’s famed "going out for an English" sketch.Read

60 Hope Street, Liverpool Aug 31 2007

DO YOU know the old saying that, if something sounds too good, to be true, it probably is? Well, I’ve just found the exception.Read

The Village Bistro, Charles Street, Hoole, Chester Aug 24 2007

HARD-to-please Glynn Mon Hughes finds a place to savourRead

Elif, Turkish barbecue restaurant, Lark Lane, Liverpool Aug 17 2007

FORGET fancy presentation, as Laura Davis discovers tastebuds tell the real storyRead

Michael's Restaurant, Liverpool Road, Birkdale Aug 10 2007

Jane Gallagher was expecting something special from a man who served top peopleRead

The Hillbark Grill, Royden Park, Frankby, Wirral. Aug 03 2007

Jane Lloyd enjoys an anniversary dinner in one of Wirral’s most exclusive hotel venuesRead

Korova, Wood Street, Liverpool Jul 27 2007

WITH a clientele which reads like a who’s who of Liverpool’s music scene, Korova has already marked itself out as the home of the city’s sound.Read

Ha! Ha! Bar and Canteen, Atlantic Pavilion, Albert Dock, Liverpool Jul 20 2007

IN need of fresh air and food, Emma Johnson headed for a favourite place – the DockRead

Khrua Thai Orchid restaurant, Heswall Hills, Wirral Jul 13 2007

PREVIOUS Taste Tests have received dispatches from the battlefield which is Chester, where the Thai restaurant invasion is well under way.Read

Il Forno, Duke Street, Liverpool Jul 06 2007

FAKE Italian patois in pasta eateries is thankfully vanishing, says Laura DavisRead

Anatolia, Seaview Road, Liscard Jun 29 2007

THE Mediterranean diet is, we are assured, the best one for us to eat. Go to work on an olive, never mind an egg, is the latest mantra of the health police.Read

The Hinderton Arms, Neston Jun 22 2007

IT REALLY is surprising, come the weekend, that southern Wirral doesn’t sink. If people in their thousands are not busy sniffing out bargains at Cheshire Oaks, then they’re probably dining out in places like Parkgate.Read

Upstairs at the Grill, Watergate Street, Chester Apr 20 2007

NOT long ago, Chester hardly rated a mention in the Good Food Guide. Save for hotels, as far as restaurants were concerned, the only mention of Michelin would be on a garage forecourt.Read

Winespeak, Dee Lane, West Kirby Apr 13 2007

IN a world dominated by private booths and velvet ropes, it’s quite refreshing to be so socially involved. If you hanker for space and seclusion, however – I suggest you reserve a window seat.Read