Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Liverpool
Hardens guides have spent 30 years compiling reviews of the best Liverpool restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 127 restaurants in Liverpool and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Liverpool restaurants gives you the best insight into the top restaurants in every area and of every type of cuisine.
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1. Salt House
Spanish restaurant in Liverpool
1 Hanover Street - L1
A stylish tapas joint just round the corner from John Lewis (should you be hungry after shopping for a washing machine) – “very busy, lively and fun, with interesting dishes that are reasonably priced”. Top Tip – “a very good value set lunch”.
2. Hanover Street Social
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
16-20 Hanover St - L1
“Consistently good food at a competitive price” plus a “useful central location and a great choice of gins” means this modern brasserie from Merseyside’s Red & Blue Restaurants group is “worth a visit”.
3. Fazenda
Brazilian restaurant in Liverpool
Unit B, Horton Hs - L2
2019 Review: “The meat’s good quality, and there’s no limits to what you can select” at this branch of a Brazilian buffet chain, where you eat as much as you like for a fixed price; by its nature, it’s “good for groups”.
4. Salt House Bacaro
Italian restaurant in Liverpool
47 Castle St - L2
“Italian small plates (this time)” “from the Salt House tapas stable” – win solid ratings for this “friendly, buzzy restaurant” from the Red & Blue team. It’s “great for a larger party”, with “seats at the bar good for dates”; “it’s crowded so you do get to hear your neighbours’ conversations – although in Liverpool that can be theatre”.
5. The Monro
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
92-94 Duke St - L1
2017 Review: “A pleasant surprise” – a “relaxing, welcoming” gastroboozer whose “sound pub menu” earns its popularity.
6. Lerpwl
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
Albert Dock - L3
The Barrie brothers of Anglesey's Marram Grass have now opened their next restaurant, on the Albert Dock site they secured in early 2019; Lerpwl is the Welsh name for Liverpool.
7. Panoramic 34
French restaurant in Liverpool
Brook Street - L3
“The views are just to die for” at the West Tower’s 34th floor restaurant – a “great place to bring people”, particularly if you opt for the afternoon tea – but it’s no one-trick pony, and also pumps out some “gorgeous”, more serious cooking. Even the least enthusiastic report (which finds it “overpriced and way too pretentious”) says “it has the most amazing setting, and the food’s good”.
8. Maray
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
91 Bold Street - L1
“Fabulous Maray never disappoints” – whether you head to this “packed” and “buzzing” outpost (est. 2014), or the equally popular offshoots in Allerton and the Royal Albert Dock. Inspired by the kind of food found in the Marais in Paris, it serves “interesting and inspiring” Middle Eastern small plates (“with a focus on vegetarian dishes”), and the end result is “a great experience” according to its army of fans.
9. Roski
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
16 Rodney Street - L1
This city-centre three-year-old from “incredibly talented chef” Anton Piotrowski, a BBC MasterChef: The Professionals winner, “is really getting it right now – great to see such a risky enterprise doing so well”. “What an unexpected delight – just another bistro from the outside, but inside it’s quickly clear it’s so much more”. “The tasting menu includes some very adventurous offerings” and on all accounts the food is “beautifully plated and tastes gorgeous”.
10. Mowgli
Indian restaurant in Liverpool
69 Bold St - L1
“Liverpool’s answer to London’s Dishoom” – Nisha Katona’s Indian street-food concept, “in the heart of the city”, has really nailed it, delivering “small sharing helpings of Mumbai-style street food”, alongside “yumblelicious” cocktails, served “by welcoming and knowledgeable staff” in a “modern and individual setting” (albeit one now being replicated around the country). Top Tip – “the always-good tiffin box option is the best”.
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