Eating

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Contents 1 Eating in Chester 2 Restaurants 3 Takeaways and delivered food 4 Cafes and sandwich bars 5 Other lists/reviews of Chester restaurants

[edit] Eating in Chester

For such a small city, Chester has a massive dining out scene. There are currently more than 70 restaurants, and this figure does not include cafés or fast-food chains. The size of the restaurant sector means it is also very competitive and places can shut surprisingly quickly, only to be replaced by something else. As in any town, restaurants can be good, bad or indifferent, with price not necessarily being an indicator of quality. The last few years in particular have seen a high turnover in dining establishments - this can only be a good thing. The recent glut of Italian places (many of which were very average) is slowly giving way to other cuisines, such as the welcome shift to French and other Mediterranean styles as well as modern European/fusion options.

Whether your preference is for Indian, French, Italian, Turkish, Chinese, Thai or even English, you should find somewhere in Chester to suit your taste buds. The list below is by no means complete, so if your favourite restaurant is not listed, please feel free to add a page. Chester really does have a range of cuisines to suit everyone's tastes, and a good range of prices too to suit all budgets.

Comprehensive restaurant reviews and a forum for discussion can be found on the Chester Chronicle's entertainment website www.thecheshireguide.co.uk. Another good site for reviews is Chester @ Large along with frank discussions on Chester @ Large's forum. There are also reviews on the website of the Evening Leader although they never seem to say anything bad about anyone! A list of other places where you can find reviews can be found at the bottom of the page.

Hi-life have a Chester affiliate scheme and claim that if you buy their card (£50) you will get a two for one deal. Their list of restuarants in Chester is here

[edit] Restaurants

A	B	C	D	E
1539 Al Quraish Amber Lounge Arkle Aquavit Asia Fusion	Bella Italia Black House Grill Bollicini Brasserie 10-16 Brasserie Chez Gerard Buffet City	Cafe Naj Cafe Pacific Chester Tandoori Chez Jules	Donato and Sandro's	East Glory Ego EuroAsia
F	G	H	I	J
Francs Frankie and Benny's	G.A.L. Gate Of India Got Wine Grosvenor Brasserie Groves		Indian Flava	Joseph Benjamin
K	L	M	N	O
	L'eau T Cuisine La Fattoria La Tasca La Taverna Locus	Meze Moules A Go Go		Olive Tree
P	Q	R	S	T
Pacino's Pastarazzi Piccolino Politic		Red House Ristorante Sergio Ruan Orchid	Shanghai Siam Thai and Teppanyaki Spice Balti Summer Palace	Thai Chi
U	V	W	Y	Z
Upstairs at the Grill	Village Bistro	What's Cooking?		Zizzi

[edit] Takeaways and delivered food

These use the Takeaway template.

A	B	C	D	E
Ahmed Asia Fusion	Bindi's Blue Chilli Kitchen Blue Lagoon Burger King	Cafe Naj Caspian Chip-O-Dee City Kebab and Pizza	Davies Fish and Chips Domino's Pizza
F	G	H	I	J
Fry Inn	Gate Of India Georges	Hoole Fish Bar Hoole Indian Takeaway		Jack's Fish and Chips Jade Takeaway Jeff's of Kingsway
K	L	M	N	O
Ken's Kitchen	Lee's Chippy	MacDonald's Midnight Express Mill Lane Fish Bar
P	Q	R	S	T
P and A Davies Pacino's Pizza		River Queen Takeaway Rob's Fish and Chips Ruby's Fish and Chips	Sayers Sea Breeze Sealand Fish and Chips South View High Fry Spud U Like Summer Palace
U	V	W	Y	Z

[edit] Cafes and sandwich bars

Ian over at Chester@Large has a quest on at present to find a good lunch in town (with a glass of wine) for less than a tenner. He's hunting round the cafes so if you know of a good one add it here and give him a hand!

A	B	C	D	E
		Cafe.Com Cafe Trio
F	G	H	I	J
K	L	M	N	O
P	Q	R	S	T
				That Cafe Thing
U	V	W	Y	Z

[edit] Other lists/reviews of Chester restaurants

Chester Wiki isn't the only place that you can find reviews of Chester's restaurants. Below is a list of other places where we have found reviews some of which (like the ones at Restaurant Guide) you can add to.

• Professional and impartial reviews of Chester restaurants and eateries can be found on the Chester Chronicle's entertainment website www.thecheshireguide.co.uk
• Reviews by local discerning diners can be found on Chester @ Large and there is an ongoing discussion in the forum about who's doing what in the local restaurant business.
• Citykey has a list of cafés and takeaways in Chester
• The "Onionring " list is a VERY good place to find actual menus although some of them may be out of date. This website also has many user-contributed reviews.
• An up-to-date list from "Restaurant Guide" with some user-contributed reviews and generally accurate information. If the restaurant has a website you will find a link to it here.
• A fairly bare list of Indian and near-eastern restaurants with phone numbers, but no reviews or links.
• The "Sugarvine" list of restaurants in Chester. You can add comments on bars and restaurants if you wish.
• The "City Visitor" list of restaurants in Chester. Has maps and directions for getting to several places which don't exist any more.
• The "somewhere to go" map with links to the websites of a very few restaurants.
• A list from "Visit North West" which only lists a few places, which have since closed.
• This list from "Top Menus" is way out of date and mentions several places (like Zorba's) which have long since closed.
• The food and drink listings at Chester.com
• The most out-of-date listing we found is at "Lollo"