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Summary
Stuart Collins racked up a stellar CV (via stints with Gary Rhodes, Michael Caines and Gordon Ramsay) before launching this “very intimate” fine-dining outpost, which landed like a foodie comet in this market town just east of the Welsh frontier in 2017. Still warmed by the mediatic glow of Stuart’s cameo on the Great British Menu, its classically informed cooking (FOH is overseen by wife Frances) revolves around an £85 tasting menu which now plays out over ten courses, rather than nine, making a “favourite difficult to decide” (but what matter when it’s all “simply superb”?).
Summary
New York, London, Doha… Whitchurch – that’s been the progression for Stuart Collins and wife Frances, who started this slightly unlikely venue five years ago, bringing a level of culinary ambition that was previously unknown to this corner of the Shropshire/Cheshire borders. Helped by a star turn from Stuart on Great British Menu a couple of years ago, it continues to attract some “outstanding all round” reviews for its 9-course tasting menu (at £85 per person).
Summary
“A great experience in a town not noted for gastronomy… if you can book a table.” Stuart & Frances Collins’s modest four-year-old in this north Shropshire market town is now booked-out for months ahead following Stuart’s star appearances on last year’s Great British Menu. Word was already out (certainly amongst our surveyors) about his modern British tasting menu – he held leading roles under Michael Caines and Gordon Ramsay and was an executive chef in Doha before he and Jenny, who runs the front-of-house operation, decided it was time to launch here.
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33 High Street, Whitchurch, SY13 1AZ
Restaurant details
Prices
 Drinks |
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|---|---|
| Wine per bottle | £20.00 |
| Filter Coffee | £2.75 |
 Extras |
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| Service | 10.00% |
33 High Street, Whitchurch, SY13 1AZ
Opening hours
| Monday | CLOSED |
| Tuesday | CLOSED |
| Wednesday | 6:30 pm‑11 pm |
| Thursday | 6:30 pm‑11 pm |
| Friday | 7 pm‑11 pm |
| Saturday | 12 pm‑4 pm, 7 pm‑11 pm |
| Sunday | CLOSED |
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