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Savina Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, Duke Street, Liverpool

I LOVE all things Mexican. I love the country, I love the people and I really love the food. I have visited Mexico twice and actually got engaged there under a moonlit sky following a feast of tortillas. Read

Portofino Italian restaurant, 62 King St, Knutsford, Cheshire

Portofino, Knutsford, Cheshire

YOU know how some places, foods, smells just take you back to memories of certain times in your life? Well, Knutsford is my place. Read

The Barking Frog restaurant, Manchester Road, Southport

The Barking Frog, Manchester Road, Southport

I LOVE Sunday lunch. The one day in the week when my husband and our four children finally get to sit down and eat at the same time as each other. Read

Zenzero restaurant, 126-128, Church Road, Formby

Zenzero, Church Road, Formby

FIFTEEN years earlier, we had been enjoying an Indian takeaway, but the meal on the occasion of my husband's 26th birthday ended abruptly with the birth of our first son early the following morning. Read

Bistro Jacques, 37-39 Hardman Street, Liverpool

Bistro Jacques, Hardman Street, Liverpool

FOR his role as Jake La Motta in Raging Bull, Robert de Niro went on a four-month gastronomic tour of Italy and France to gain 60lbs in weight. Read

Vivante Brasserie, Liverpool Road, Birkdale

FORMERLY known as the Some Place Else (like, far out, man!) this bright and airy eaterie at the heart of Pleasant Valley Sunday Land was bought by the dad-and-lad partnership of Jim and Brian Corrin just over 18 months ago. Read

Bollywood Lounge, Grange Road West, Birkenhead

"GREAT new Indian opened, Bollywood Lounge," said a chum. I grimaced, sounded tacky to me. And talk about location, location - downtown Birkenhead didn't inspire me with enthusiasm. But I went along anyway - and how wrong can assumptions be! Read

Room Restaurant, Castle Street, Liverpool

IT WOULD never have been allowed in my father's day. The hands on the big clock over the entrance to the magnificent old banking hall were frozen at six o'clock. Read

Vinci's Cafe Bar, Allerton Road, Liverpool

WITH golf fans everywhere - from all over the world - milling around the city and discussing Tiger Woods, it was time to go for the local and low-key option. Read

Spire restaurant, Church Road, Liverpool

Spire, Church Road, Liverpool

LIVERPOOL is hungry for more medium to high quality restaurants. If you're looking to splash out on a special occasion you need to book up weeks in advance to get a table in one of the city's best eateries. Read

Restaurant Locus 111 Boughton, Chester

WOMEN give a lot of airtime to men - the ones who bugged them, ditched them or simply disappeared. But guys aren't the only topic of girly conversation - there's also the subject of food. Read

The Stretton Fox, Stretton, Warrington

BACK when we were all still deluding ourselves that the Jules Rimet was within our grasp, before the pain of penalties, red cards and Beckham's goodbye, finding a football-free pub while our boys were on the World Cup pitch was quite a feat. Read

Politic, Watergate Street, Chester

PIZZA place"? said our friend, Clare, ever so slightly sniffily.While pizzas do create an air of not-very-good fast food convenience, or wild children's parties, the place we discovered in Chester is in a pizza league of its own. Read

El Macho Mexican Village, Hope Street, Liverpool

A WEEK ago last Wednesday, two of us sat down at El Macho, the Mexican restaurant on Hope Street, and started our meal. Six days, one hour and 25 minutes and three tables later, we finished. Read

The Grosvenor Arms, Chester Road, Aldford, Chester

The Grosvenor Arms, Chester Road, Chester

A PERFECT date usually includes your man, chocolate, the couch and back-to-back re-runs of well-known chick flicks. But when your other half prefers football to you in your fluffy PJs paying homage to Bridget Jones, romance soon becomes a wicked word. Read

The Courtyard Restaurant, Rigby's Building, Dale Street, Liverpool

The Courtyard Restaurant, Dale Street, Liverpool

IT WAS another barmy Friday evening. It always seems to be heaving every time I step out the door to go out at the moment, especially when I'm looking for a quiet night. Read

Heart and Soul restaurant, 62 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool

Heart and Soul, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool

IT'S said that the sort of restaurant you are in can be told by looking at its clientele. Read

Cafe Rouge, Victoria Street, Liverpool

THE French have always had a very special relationship with food. From the big family meals to their insistence on fresh ingredients and fine wine, the French take their meals very seriously. Read

Meet, Brunswick Street, Liverpool

THERE were oohs and aahs in my weekly planning meeting when I mentioned the subject of my latest restaurant review. No matter how sophisticated we tell ourselves we have become in our tastes, blokes simply cannot resist a good steak. Read

The Bistro resturant, The Gallery, Formby

The Bistro, The Gallery, Formby

MY HUSBAND is away in Seville on a very long boy's weekend. Meanwhile, I am at home with four very bored children. "If dad's on holiday, why can't we go out for a meal," says one. Read

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