Hardens Guide to the Best Restaurants in Weston
Hardens guides have spent 33 years compiling reviews of the best Weston restaurants. On Hardens.com you'll find details and reviews of 58 restaurants in Weston and our unique survey based approach to rating and reviewing Weston 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
“Consistently good tapas” again wins solid all-round ratings at this ‘Charcuteria & Tapas Bar’ in an atmospheric Grade I listed building opposite John Lewis, which offers a wide-ranging selection of dishes at affordable prices. The same owners also run Hanover Street Social.
2. The Inn At Huxley
British, Modern restaurant in Huxley
Huxley Lane - CH3
“Tucked away in the middle of the Cheshire countryside”, this “lovely” family-run inn with oak beams and stone floors “deserves to be found by locals and visitors alike – since we discovered it, we haven’t been anywhere else for Sunday lunch”.
3. Lawns Grill, Thornton Hall Hotel & Spa
International restaurant in Thornton Hough
Neston Rd - CH63
2023 Review: A lot of water has passed under the bridge since 2019 when Boris Johnson and former Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, met for crunch post-Brexit talks at this posh hotel & spa out on the Wirral. On limited feedback, ratings for its grill are good all-round, but more plaudits go to the rather dramatically named ‘Great Wirral Afternoon Tea’ – a “well thought-out offering with good choice of sweet or savoury options” that’s “particularly nice on the terrace or lawn”.
4. The London Carriage Works, Hope Street Hotel
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
40 Hope Street - L1
Since 2003, this minimalist contemporary dining room – part of one of the city’s first ‘boutique’ hotels (named for the 1860s business for which the premises were created) – has helped lead the charge in modernising dining out in The Pool. It doesn’t attract the volume of reports it once did, but its quality brasserie-style cooking continues to inspire nothing but favourable feedback: “my meal of the year: occasionally hit and miss, but usually excellent”. Top Tip – bargain prix fixe.
5. Artezzan Restaurant & Bar
Mediterranean restaurant in Chester
33 Pepper Street - CH1
ARTEZZAN TAKES AN HONEST APPROACH TO MEDITERRANEAN INSPIRED FOOD SERVED IN A MODERN, FRESH, FEEL-GOOD WAY. OFFERING A UNIQUE DINING AND DRINKING EXPERIENCE CELEBRATING AN AUTHENTIC MEDITERRANEAN TASTE....
6. OXA
restaurant in Birkenhead
1 Rose Mount, Oxten - CH43
Fine dining in relaxed neighbourhood restaurant setting, Open in Oxton serves a sophisticated tasting menu with optional drinks pairing. Ingredients are locally-sourced and treated with respect. Diners enjoy a casual chef-led experience. ...
8. Vetch
International restaurant in Liverpool city centre
29a Hope Street - L1
Vetch is a fine dining restaurant with a casual atmosphere serving great food accomanied with great service.Situated in the georian quarter of Liverpool in a beautiful grade 2 listed building with large windows offering plenty of light the restaurant is both modern an...
9. Rasoi
Indian restaurant in Tarporley
Four Lane Ends - CW6
For “really tasty Indian food” – the usual suspects, plus slightly more exotic fare such as duck masala – head to this 200-year-old brick inn, which won nothing but praise this year for its cooking, but also its “exceptional” service (recalling the theme song from ‘Cheers’, this is “the place where they know your name!”). The “only slight issue is busy roads on both sides” (the A49 and A51, which bypass the village of Tarporley right outside) but once inside “you can’t really hear them”.
10. Restaurant 8 by Andrew Sheridan
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
16 Cook Street - L2
Native Liverpudlian Andrew Sheridan upped sticks from Brum to relocate ‘8’ to a Victorian building in the city centre (next to the original Cavern Club) in April 2023. Seating is at one of two counters for, appropriately, eight diners; the lighting is low; much of the décor is black or slate-grey; and the level of ambition in the cooking is high, with the aim of delivering ‘an immersive sensory experience’. The eight courses (for £110 per head) are of very diverse inspiration and there’s also a wine pairing option (for £80 per head).
11. Nord
Scandinavian restaurant in Liverpool
The Plaza, 100 Old Hall Street - L3
In April 2023, the former HQ of Littlewoods morphed into this co-venture between Liverpudlian chef Daniel Heffy and the GSG Hospitality group – a startlingly futuristic space with pod-like seating. The titular ‘Nord’ nods to both good old northern hospitality (Heffy had a hand in local haunts like cult supper club Secret Diners Club and the Buyers Club) and to the chef’s recent stint in Stockholm, meaning contemporary, ingredient-led cooking showcased in a wide range of menus (the most affordable of which is the sharing plates-style Sunday lunch). By early reports, the “beautifully cooked dishes” make it “well worth the journey” – more feedback, please!
12. Spire
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
1 Church Road - L15
“Local restaurant which has been there for years and always produces high-quality fare with excellent service”, from the “consistently awesome Locke brothers”, Matt & Adam. “There’s a wide choice of dishes – nothing too ostentatious, just good cooking”, “well-executed and reasonably priced” in a “modern European” idiom. It’s popular, so “booking is necessary”.
13. Cornichon
British, Modern restaurant in Tarvin
71 High Street - CH3
2021 Review: Just a short drive outside Chester, a smartly appointed “bar and bistro in an old family grocers shop retaining much of the original features and fittings of the Georgian building” (The Gunnery). “A straightforward menu is well realised” and weekend brunch is a feature.
14. Belzan
British, Modern restaurant in Liverpool
371 Smithdown Road - L15
“Fabulous food with unusual flavour combinations, lovely staff and great service” make this neighbourhood bistro from Chris Edwards & Owain Williams “well worth the trip to the student quarter of Liverpool”. “Seasonality is the key here” – but “don’t come here for a romantic dinner-for-two: it’s buzzing!”. Top Tip – “the amazing early-bird dinner menu”.
15. Woo Tan Scran
Vegan restaurant in Liverpool
109-111 Lark Lane - L17
2022 Review: Liverpool’s first vegan chippy – a plant-based Chinese venture on Lark Lane – opened in November 2019 serving noodles, rice dishes, spring rolls, etc, alongside more traditional dishes like battered sausages and chip butties. For grab-and-go it’s going down a storm in The Pool!
16. Sticky Walnut
British, Modern restaurant in Chester
11 Charles St - CH2
“Been several times and it is just the perfect neighbourhood bistro…” – no-one would seek the roots of a famous chain in Hoole (a gentrified but easily-missed inner suburb near Chester’s train station), but Gary Usher’s well-known Elite Bistros group has grown from these modest beginnings: a small backstreet operation founded in 2011. What is it that makes this “local brasserie style restaurant” a cut above? It’s the “consistently good food, wine and engaging and knowledgeable service”. “The ambience might depend on the clientele for that evening, as it’s fairly small – upstairs was very quiet on our visit, but that made it easy to have a conversation with our friends without competing noise”.
17. The Old Harkers Arms
British, Modern restaurant in Chester
Russell St - CH3
Another characterful pub in the Brunning & Price chain (a red-brick former warehouse with plenty of reclaimed décor including a bar made of old mahogany doors) in an appealing canal-side location between the train station and city centre. It’s a “noisy” and sociable sort of spot and the food is of “good dependable quality”.
18. The Forge
British, Modern restaurant in Chester
Hotel Indigo, Grosvenor Park Road - CH1
Feedback is more limited than we would like, but is enthusiastic over this grey-hued boutique hotel dining room, run from afar by game expert Mike Robinson. Chef Dan Regan oversees the preparation of a menu that majors in 40-60 day, dry-aged beef steaks from a selection of sirloin or ribeye cuts.
19. The Art School
British, Traditional restaurant in Liverpool
1 Sugnall St - L7
“A spacious, beautiful building” in the Georgian Quarter next to ‘The Phil’ (built in 1888 as a ‘Home for Destitute Children’) hosts Paul Askew’s culinary bastion – still, after ten years in operation, the most high-profile all-rounder in the city in our annual diners’ poll. At heart this is high-quality “traditional” – if contemporized – dining: the ‘Excellence’ menu is a three-course à la carte, although there is also a six-course ‘Tasting’ option at £125 per person: “fabulous food, tremendous service, and a lovely atmosphere”.
20. Porta
Spanish restaurant in Chester
140 Northgate Street - CH1
The “great Spanish food” at Joe & Ben Wright’s Chester-based tapas operation has proved a winner over the past dozen years, replacing their popular bistro Joseph Benjamin and spawning offshoots in Altrincham and Salford, while in late 2024 they took over the former Greens site in West Didsbury. The no-reservations policy means “you risk waiting for ages – but at least they have a bar upstairs to wait in now!”.
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