Tag: fine dining

Restaurant Oxa, Oxton, Wirral

A delicious birthday meal for my husband at @restaurantoxa in Oxton, Wirral. We haven’t been here since summer last year and wanted to try the new menu. We found parking right outside this time which was fabulous, and we sat in the same seats. We enjoyed a beautiful tasting menu with all Steves allergies catered…

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Restaurant Oxa, Oxton

A gorgeous Michelin recommended neighbourhood restaurant in Oxton, Wirral, @restaurantoxa is headed up by @chef_andrew_sheridan and @jake12smi12_chef and was our venue of choice to celebrate me getting back on the transplant list last week. We went for the 8 course tasting menu at £80 each and Chef was more than happy to adapt the courses…

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The Art School Restaurant, Liverpool

So on an unassuming side street near the Philharmonic in Liverpool, you will find the white archway to a culinary delight. Home to Chef Patron Paul Askew and being in the UK’s top 50 restaurants meant it had been on my foodie radar for a good while and so our 13th wedding anniversary seemed the…

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The Forge, Chester

I’ve written about The Forge before, but this time we went on a Sunday. For a Sunday lunch I have read all about. Able to cater to Steve’s food intolerances, we sat down and were guided through the menu by a lovely waitress. She listed what could and couldn’t be adapted and what wouldn’t need…

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Nextdoor, Frodsham

We enjoyed a beautiful anniversary meal at Nextdoor in Frodsham.Set in a 17th century timber framed building, it felt very intimate and dare I say romantic. The setting for this restaurant adjoins the owners home so it literally is ‘Nextdoor’ and once housed the owners great grandfather’s butchers shop. We went for the August tasting…

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Arkle, Chester

Arkle is a refined dining experience in the heart of Chester. Located in the iconic Grovesnor Hotel , executive Chef Elliot Hill and his team and have created an exciting and delicious tasting menu that we chose to enjoy for our twelfth wedding anniversary. Upon arrival we were seated in a beautifully furnished room where…

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Hypha, Chester

I read about this little restaurant on Chester City Walls a while ago. A vegan restaurant focussed on sustainability and local ingredients, it piqued my interest immediately even as a meat eater. Offering seasonal tasting menus where everything is used, produce is grown organically and their own fermentation lab produces innovative drinks, I finally booked…

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The Forge, Chester (again!)

As soon as we finished eating at this lovely restaurant in Chester a month or so ago, I decided to rebook for the seventh anniversary of my kidney transplant. We wanted something special as this may well turn out to be the last anniversary of this transplant. On arrival we were seated in a lovely…

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The Angel Taste of Devon, Dartmouth

We spent a whole week in Devon and ate at many fabulous places that I shall blog about, but I couldn’t not start with this one. The Angel is a multi award winning, fine dining restaurant headed up by the amazing chef Elly Wentworth (you might have seen her on Great British Menu). We booked…

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