North West Restaurant Guide

Aqua-Vitus restaurant near the Guildhall Museum in Watergate Street, is situated on one of the most beautiful streets in Chester, where there are many exceptionally fine half timbered buildings dating back to the 1600s.

58 Watergate Street, Chester, Cheshire

It's an amazing real-time flash back to the First World War era, the road on which this Victorian corner pub sits leads to the former Drill Hall which was a recruiting centre; how many King's Shillings were spent here? Mike Mercer has run The Albion Inn for nearly 40 years and today its reputation stands it on parade alongside Cheshire's great food heroes.

Park Street, Chester, Cheshire

Garrett and Helen Forsey have moved next door from the previous venture to open this much bigger and more ambitious restaurant and wine bar.

2C Bromborough Road, Wirral, Merseyside

A stunning Victorian edifice in the hearty of the Lancashire countryside, but with easy access to the M6 and the M61, Kilhey Court is ideally suited to grand bashes and small-scale intimate celebrations.

Chorley Road, Wigan, Greater Manchester

You might not guess it now, but this lavish restaurant complex was originally a seventeenth-century farm cottage. Following extensive development in Victorian times and more recently during the 1980s, the Crimble now houses a choice of dining rooms and bars for every occasion.

Crimble Lane, Rochdale, Greater Manchester

Following a change of ownership and much expensive refurbishment, Clough Manor has emerged as a slick and sophisticated boutique hotel that promotes itself as 'high style' way up on the Lancashire moors above Denshaw and the urban sprawl of Oldham.

Rochdale Road, Oldham, Greater Manchester

The Clog & Billycock is set on a hillside above the River Darwen in the picturesque rural village of Pleasington.

Billinge End Road, Blackburn, Lancashire

Waddington Arms originally an old coaching inn is situated in the centre of the village from which it takes its name, famous because King Henry VI stayed nearby at Waddington Hall before being betrayed to the Yorkists in 1465.

, Waddington, Lancashire

This ground-breaking eatery attached to the Whitworth Art Gallery (across the road from the Manchester Royal Infirmary) has proved to be a godsend for families, university staff and local workers.

The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Greater Manchester

Nestled in the heart of the Pennines, The Waterside is a mellow bar and restaurant with a relaxed, intimate feel adjacent to the Rochdale canal at Littleborough.

1 Inghams Lane, Littleborough, Lancashire