Ego At Stanney Oaks, Little Stanney in Cheshire West and Chester

We (2 dinners) arrived around 2 pm for lunch, quickly seated and opted for the 3 course fix price lunch. Ordered our drinks, waited and made our choices, order taken. Reminded server about drinks, waited ...drinks arrived. Starters arrived 5 minutes later. Calamari nice with garnish. Garlic mushrooms with bread. The bread was burnt on the base, the garlic was far too strong ( I cook with fresh garlic in my kitchen, there is a balancing act that needs to be correct, not tasting it until the following day) no check from server to ask if food ok. Dishes cleared away.... asked for another round of drinks. Took quite a while for drinks to arrive. 1 bar staff 2 servers.... 1 guy drinking at the bar. Mains arrived eventually, chef forgot to put the pot of tartare sauce on fishcake plate, asked for it, waited, asked again, sauce arrived. Again heavy garlic on the pasta linguine. Picked our desserts choices...with a coffee. Dessert arrived no coffee, reminded staff, asked for bill, bill arrived. The servers had gone for break and bar staff was left to give coffee. Coffee was cold we were fed up chasing staff. It was now 3.30pm The bill was folded over with total showing and l went to bar to pay. Not happy, I know this brand and eaten elsewhere with no issues. Paid bill and left, checked bill much later when emptying receipts out of wallet and a 10% service charge had been added to the bill for 2 dining. My fault I guess for not checking receipt properly, I'm used to 8 dinners or more having a service charge. Not 2 pensioners, who normally tip if the food and service was good, this was not worth the £5.37 tip or "service charge". Bread burnt, no tartare sauce, cold coffee, heavy hand on the garlic mushrooms and pasta linguine. We were thinking of returning, however there are plenty of places to eat in the area.

Most important Friendly staff ! Great food! 2 for 1 cocktails lovely atmosphere and service ! Looking forward to going back soon

Lunch menu was varied, Food was good, service was excellent.

Came here for the first time since its changeover. It's very clean, no sticky tables or floors, the ambience is amazing, the plants, the lighting, the decor gives it a modern spacious feel. The lunchtime menu is cheaper from the normal menu and goes to Monday to Saturday from 11 to 5 pm. Also, cocktails were two for the price of one. The cocktail range was good, initially ordered a bellini, but the cocktail was weak, this was mentioned to the waiting staff, and they added extra syrup. Foodwise ordered fish and chips, and this was really tasty, even the mushy peas and tartare sauce. The pizza with spice and pepperoni was very spicy and full of flavour. The tomato sauce used tasted like quality rich sundried tomato paste. For desserts, the apple pie with cinnamon and custard was good, the pastry soft and the apples tart. The cinnamon flavour just was not noticeable. The chocolate brownie with ice cream was average, just could not pick the ice cream flavour. Staff were professional and very helpful and polite. Would recommend this as a place to visit. With two main courses, sweet potato fries, two cocktails, 1.5 pints of Amstel beer the total cost was approximately £55. Plenty of parking and worth visiting after Cheshire Oaks as its quiter than most of the eateries nearby.

Food is amazing! The staff are attentive and always bubbly and welcoming. My husband had the mixed kebab and I had a paella. This has become our new favourite restaurant when visiting cheshire oaks.

Great service and menu. Loved meeting friends for dinner, and the perfect post-shopping location

Great food and really good prices

My friends salmon fishcakes were very overcooked, they were replaced by slightly better ones. I ordered fish, chips and pea puree, fish was spot on but the chips & pea puree cold, couldn't be bothered to tell the waitress because I guess when I got the dish back the fish would have been cold. BUT the puds were fantastic I had rhubarb & gin crumble & my friend had a chocolate brownie. Both were great

What a wonderful place to spend a birthday dinner.

Paella was very strange nice meat and fish but the rice was boiled rice very wet with water not done in stock as it should be

We were pleasantly surprised by the efficient service as the restaurant was really busy. However we were served quickly with delicious hot food and regularly checked to see if we wanted more drinks. The serving staff were pleasant and helpful. Only slight criticism was the very small portion size of the spaghetti carbonara. Tasty food, reasonable price, great service.

Lovely place and great variety of food, service a little slow as we waited a while to order initial drink and then food. Would still recommend

Third visit here and ot won't be long before we'll be back. Lovely wait staff, very obliging and helpful despite being extremely busy. Overheard one patiently answering customers' second enquiry about WiFi and going back again to check too. Food was well prepared and delicious, great variety on menu too. Liked the 2 for 1 on cocktails as it was my sister's birthday and we were celebrating some good news too.thank you

Absolutely fantastic… thank you

Myself & my partner visit Ego regularly. The staff are always very welcoming and friendly and the food is fantastic! Tuesday is their steak night where you can choose from a variety of different steak cuts at a great price. We visited on a Friday night recently and there were musicians playing which created a lovely atmosphere. Would highly reccomend this place.

Our waitress was Mia she was very helpful and pleasant 10/10

A busy night meant that on sitting at our table at 7pm we didn't get our drinks until 7.50pm and our food at 8.25pm, however the 241 cocktails were lovely and the food tasty.

We were a party of three and our meals were delivered promptly.The meals were very enjoyable and all three expressed satisfaction and a wish to return soon But we estimate that we waited for approximately thirty minutes for the delivery of our desserts.

My family and I visited today for Sunday Roast. Which was Amazing!!! The restaurant was crazy busy, but the staff remained bubbly, friendly, and very helpful. We were greated with a smile and seated straight away and we were informed that they were missing a few dishes, but there's plenty more to chose from, so it didn't bother us. The service was excellent, and we couldn't fault it. We always come here when we come shopping at Cheshire Oaks. It's the best restaurant around for price and quality of food. We will be back soon.

Very disappointing experience here for a family birthday celebration. Booked for 5 people on Sunday, 22nd September. We we're told where our table was rather than taken to it, few minutes later the host then brought over some menus and told us there was no ribeye steak, no sea bass and no beef for the roast dinner as they had had a busier service than expected, not ideal as we had came for the roast beef, however we were all happy to settle for something else from the roast dinner menu. After each deciding on a different roast dinner, the waitress came over, only to then tell us they had no roast dinner's available whatsoever. How on earth do you run out of roast dinners on a sunday?? At the third time of trying, four of us settled for steaks, 2 rump, and 2 fillets. We ate our starters which were ok, nothing to shout about though, then a different waitress came over to tell us they only had 1 fillet steak left, leaving my partner to settle for a rump at the fourth time of trying!! The mains arrived, they were ok, but we all left some of our meals as the steaks were tough and chewy, the onion rings were more batter than onion, and the fries didn't really taste of anything. I assumed they also ran out of tomatos as none of the 4 steaks came with them as advertised. Another very off-putting thing to mention was that while eating our meal, we could hear the host talking to 2 other members of staff slating a previous customer about a complaint that they had made over the phone. The bill then arrived, but they had tried to charge us extra for the fillet steak that never arrived, this was only removed after us asking. As someone who works in hospitality, I can to a degree sympathise because I know things don't always go as planned, but I feel this experience was very, very poor. Overall, very poor customer service and a very disappointing meal experience, one that all of us agreed we would not be trying again.

Great food never had a bad meal. Staff are all really friendly! Prices are brilliant and the 2 4 1 on cocktails is a bonus! Decorated nicely and nice cozy feeling would highly recommend

Lorraine was excellent. So friendly and attentive - thanks Lorraine!

Lovely food, we had Sunday roast. Beef was advertised as pink but a little too pink for us. Service was a bit on the slow side. Friendly staff nice atmosphere.

Today, Monday the 16th of September 2024 Geoff & I visited the Ego at Stanney Oaks for the first time. What an absolutely Delightful experience! Both the absolutely brilliant waitresses, Stephanie & Charlie were Amazing!! The food, service drinks & atmosphere were absolutely Magnificent!! We will be most definitely going again! They are Dog 🐕 friendly too! Awesome! Thanks so much! See you there again soon! ❤️🍽😊👌

Food was good, chicken kebab and gambas al a pil pil. Had calamari previously which was excellent. Very surprised that dogs are allowed to sit in.

Service very poor, waited over an hour for food. Chicken so dry because it had been left under the lamps will other meals were veing prepared. Staff friendly enough, otherwise ... nope

Amazing food, very friendly staff. Can't fault it at all. Will definitely be going back!

Been here several times and not disappointed! Took family and it was their first time and we all enjoyed our food, service good and great value!

It was worth to wait for food to be served. The food Was really delicious. Definitely will come back next time when in the area.

Starter lovely. Staff lovely. Service times between starters and main very slow. Finished starter at 3.40pm, 4.15, 35 mins later still no main. Restaurant was not busy, so in the end asked when our main would arrive. Told it was just being dished up, 10 mins later, it finally arrived. We ordered paella, unfortunately it was very wet and more like risotto. Not as it should be. It was a shame as piping hot. Don't think I would return due to long delay between courses, especially when half empty.

Another visit lost a bit of edge ordered 2 rum coke one of glasses had chip in rim nearly cut my lip asked of we want water jug when are meals came out had 2 ask for 2 glasses then they had the cheek £4 service charge .that's outrageous glad I never left a tip

Had a lovely lunch. Friendly staff and good food. Will definitely go again.

Fantastic experience! Beautiful food and excellent service! The staff where very knowledgeable and friendly, the food was outstanding and reasonably priced! Definitely will be returning.

As a regular diner at this pub, the experiance was pretty bad. We had Sunday lunch and it was the worst i have ever had, the potatoes where not roasted for long enough and a lttle rubbery, the carrots and parsnips were hard not al dente, The red cabbage was tasteless. We where offered a comp dessert as the main was so bad. We both had apple pie from the microwave splatted on the plate with soggy pastry. Couldnt eat it as it wasnt very nice. The chefs need to have a little more passion for the food they are sending out as this wasnt good enough.

Had a great dining experience in Ego Cheshire Oaks, Lorraine took really good care of us, very attentive and they were very busy, it looked like there were only two people waiting tables and Lorraine remained calm polite and very informative about what was available on the menu. She brought the drinks and food in what I would say was a reasonable time to wait. Will definitely be going back thanks 🙏

Arrived for our 4pm booking and had to sit at the bar area for 15 mins until the table was ready. After being escorted to the table I hadn’t even sat down or picked up the menu before someone asked if we were ready to order food. Another lady came back 10 mins later and took our order, and we asked if kids meals could come out with the starters. After waiting for the best part of 30 mins (in which we could see half of our meals sat under the kitchen heat lamps for nearly 15 mins), 2 of the starters were sent back for being cold, and both kids meals were cooked to the point of being an inedible choking hazard. They were all replaced and an apology given, blaming the kitchen for the mess up. As we waited around another 25 mins for the mains to turn up, it was embarrassing listening to so many people around us complaining and the staff having to apologise for such poor food and errors. We were offered more drinks 10 mins before the 4 adult meals arrived, 2 of which were fine, the other two meals were missing items which we were not informed about. Once given food we didn’t see any members of staff until 45 mins later, at which point we asked to speak to a manager along with requesting the kids’ desserts be brought out. Manager was friendly and apologetic and said he would discount some items from the bill which he kindly did, including both kids meals, and again apologised for the kitchen staff and slow service. Another 20 min wait for 2 kids chocolate brownie and ice creams, and our meals ended up taking nearly 3 hours, and we still left gasping for a drink. Would I go back again? No chance. Staff were friendly but that’s the only redeeming thing about the whole dining experience.

We have visited here before and had a delicious Sunday Lunch but our visit this week was sooooooo disappointing. The starters were all delicious, as were the desserts, the staff we lovely and could not do enough for us. Sadly, the Sunday Roast was not good. The meats were fine, the vegetarian nut roast disappointing, the yorkshire puds were okay and the shredded red cabbage was delicious - the problem was the 'roast' veg. We had booked a later-in-the-day table (3pm) and quite often the danger with this is that the veg comes out overcooked having been on most of the day. When it was time for our roasts to be served, our server advised that the roast potatoes had 'only just gone in to the oven and did we want mash potato instead or would we be happy to wait 40 mins for the roasts to be ready'. We were happy to wait, the atmosphere was lovely and it was nice to let out starters 'go down'. When the mains arrived the potatoes were huge and very pale and the carrots and parsnips no different. The potatoes and carrots were barely cooked and we couldn't get a knife into the parsnips. We told the server how disappointed we were and she offered to bring some more vegetables - sadly, the ones she brought were exactly the same as the first lot. It was clear from looking at other tables in the restaurant that other diners were equally disappointed with the standard of the veg. The servers could not be more apologetic and when our bill arrived the management had taken money off our bill - thank you, but it is not about the money.

Excellent 60th Birthday family meal - thank you

Eaten at this restaurant many times. Went yesterday and again the food was excellent and service was fairly prompt. However shocked to find they have now starting charging for service on the bill and we were not even told in advance. We always leave a good tip and no doubt if we hadn’t noticed the service charge and also left a tip they would have taken it

Terrible birthday meal ruined. 2 Steaks overcooked and tough, grissly too and hanging kebab lamb like fat amd chicken. Dry. Complained then made to feel like I've done something wrong. Watch the £5 service charge they add on too. I refused to pay it. Will never return. You cannot afford to serve such bad food in such an area.

Lovely lunch with family yesterday. Great service lovely food. Nice atmosphere Have booked for next month and Christmas get together with friends.

Excellent food and service, a great place to eat 👍

Took the children to Ego for lunch time menu. I had been previously and it had been nice but the food this time was inedible. The tomato and pepper soup had hard little stick bits in it that I had to spit out , also the morrrocan chicken wrap was not just chargrilled it was black and I had a funny taste all day afterwards. The childrens meals were also burnt. Unfortunately this has put me off going again.

Came with my family was Awful. Both steaks overcooked and grissly/chewy, Hanging kebab lamb terrible and chewie mainly fat, chicken ok but dry. Complained but nothing. Will never return, came for my birthday meal Totally ruined. Staff ignorant and slow. Made to feel uncomfortable because I complained. Watch out for the £5 service charge too. I refused to pay it. Gone really down hill in an area you cannot afford to. Avoid at all costs .....

Went for steak night and food was excellent. We all had sirloin steaks for main ; 2 small puddings; Eton mess and rhubarb crumble and a sticky toffee pudding. Staff were lovely ; although service was a little slow. We waited a while for drinks.

Lovely experience. Delicious food. Great atmosphere.

A delicious family meal. Food was spot on 👌🏻 and amazing service. I can highly recommend the trio of roasts Sunday dinner it was beautiful 😍

14 of us dined, good quality and no complaints. Staff were friendly and helpful. A great experience.

Came with my Husband & 3 year old Son on Sunday, it was our first time visiting. Lovely restaurant, very tasty food and great friendly service from Lorraine.

Food was delicious and service was good

Great Golden Wedding celebration in the small dining room. Everyone commented on the wonderful food and the very pleasant and helpful serving staff. Organising it couldn’t have been easier . Many thanks to all at Ego.

Myself and husband visited Saturday early dinner time. Lots of free parking which is a bonus. The place is large so can be noisy especially when there are large parties in. The meals are a generous size although mine was exceptionally spicy so wouldn’t choose that again. Service was good. At the end of the meal I was taken aback to find a 10% service charge already added to the bill including our drinks. We ALWAYS tip but it does annoy me when this is already added. I note from another review that Ego say this is only added to tables of 8 or more. Clearly not.

Amazing place to eat. Great food, fantastic service throughout our visit. Definitely coming back.

The food was cooked beautifully, everything was delicious and we all enjoyed our visit. We were served by Lorraine (what's your name) who made the visit even more special, cannot thank her enough for putting up with us 😁

Great food and great service from Laura (Lorraine). Roast pork was perfect and sticky toffee pudding as always was amazing.

Been many times, I recommended this night and they were all very pleased.

Food wonderful bit of a weight but busy would not go on Friday night music on and as a met up woth friends to catch up impossible as we could not hear each other But would go another night

Even though they were fully booked they found us a table they told us we had a limited time due to table needed later .food was nice and warm .staff friendly even offered us a doggy bag due to my parents not being able to eat all there pizzas would go back if we lived closer. But too far for a repeat visit

Had family meal staff were amazing polite and helpful, had 3 young children with us who were made to feel just as important as adults, food was 10/10 taste and was served in reasonable time

Amazing food, can’t believe we haven’t been here before. Sally d, our server, was amazing! Super attentive, kept us topped up with drinks, kept us up to date on our food order. Overall, really really good experience. We will be back!

Sally is such a joy!! Made our meal extra lovely, and the entire team always go above and beyond to make it a great experience here.

Me and my wife were staying on a camp site a 5 minute walk from this place. A massive thank you to the staff. The food in my opinion was 2nd to none. Price was unbelievably spot on.

Food was lovely, service was great from Lorraine Lisa and Mia and everybody was very welcoming and atmosphere was nice and facilities good

Had an amazing late Sunday lunch here. We were served by Charlie who was beyond fabulous. Our starters the garlic prawns were out of this world so much so we ordered a tomato flat bread to mop up all the extra goodness. My husband and I both ordered the roast beef and enjoyed it. The ambiance, service and negronis were great as was the Malbec. Overall would really recommend and we are looking forward to a Sunday lunch here again soon x

Great experience. Booked table for 10. No problems at all. Food was good and tasty. Portions were spot on and all our main meals came out together and promptly, as did our puddings. Staff friendly and helpful and prices reasonable. Restaurant was clean, comfortable and spacious. Highly recommended. Visited again on 26/08/24 - another table for 10. Service by Lucie was great and the food was excellent and arrived for all 10 of us at once: both main meals and puddings. Another positive experience of Ego. Recommended.

A really lovely Sunday lunch with family. Great food and atmosphere Fantastic staff, very friendly welcoming and helpful

This is this first time here,and it was fantastic, food was great value and lovely cooked

Great great food !!! With good price! 😊

Overall, I've given 5 stars as Ego has the potential to be just that! The place is beautifully decorated throughout in a mainly blue/gold/grey muted theme with some stylish wall lights and other decorative objects. The staff were friendly and helpful. Service was a tad slow given that the whole place was fairly quiet and so lacking in atmosphere. However, we were not in a rush so it was OK. The food was pretty good but the gamba prawn starter is far too hot/spicy. Calamari was tasty but the plate looked bare so a little bit of salad would be nice! Mains were very good, excellent hanging chicken kebabs, tasty and rich paella and some nice fillets of fish. We really enjoyed it and thought the Wednesday deal with the £10 wine was good value. One point, this place is very dog friendly with a table of treats and water, bowls etc and rogues gallery photos of doggy visitors. But outside there was no poo bin anywhere! needs sorting. Now have vouchers for future offers/treats so will be returning again very soon. I would definitely recommend Ego, its much better than many other pubs in the area. Thank you Ego Stanney Oaks!

Service was good however the food let us down. Sunday roasts were a bit dry,the veg was a bit burnt and overall was average. For the price paid it was not worth it

Really good service and food. Great atmosphere and enjoyed the live music. Thank you to Sophie for being a great server. Will be coming again

Lovely evening very attentive :) Food was gorgeous and enjoyed the live singer!

The food was delicious and the service by Lorraine was very professional. She understood the menu and what options were available even giving tips for a good wine. Very enjoyable evening with friends 😊

Friendly welcome, professional service, high quality food at reasonable prices.

We liked the food and the service was good until the bill came. A 10% service charge had already been added (fine), however we were then prompted to add another tip on the machine when paying. When we didn’t, the previously friendly waitress seemed to take umbrage. Unlikely to return due to this odd attitude. EDIT: I’m a little confused following the response from the restaurant. We were only a table of 4 - it sounds like the discretionary service charge shouldn’t have been added at all then, if it’s only for tables of 8 and above? To be as clear as possible, the issue isn’t the service charge. It’s that we were asked to leave ANOTHER tip on top of that when paying. If we hadn’t been taking notice we’d have ended up leaving tipping twice, which is why I wanted to flag this issue and notify other people of such sneaky tactics.

The staff were good but the wait for burnt food and the coffee machine being broken was not good.

We visited Ego after a full day out at the Zoo with two very tired and very hungry children. The food was great (better than I was expecting) and the service received by Lorraine was excellent. She was very attentive and great with the kids.

Our server was sally, we had our grandson with us sally made a big fuss of him and was amazing with him. Can’t fault anything amazing

A early evening catchup with friends, we all ate from the Wednesday offer 2 meals for £30 + optional bottle of wine for £10. This deal is excellent value as you can choose either a starter or dessert plus a main from a good range of choices. The food was all lovely, with Lorraine our server being both attentive and friendly and the overall atmosphere good. There were plenty of people dining who I suspect were taking advantage of the the great offer. I wouldn't hesitate to visit again.

Sally was very friendly and attentive. Thank you x

First time eating at Ego and what a lovely ambiance, fantastic service by Sally. The went above and beyond and stood out a mile with customer service and cheer. Gorgeous food with the amazing offer too. Top marks from me. Be back again very soon.

Amazing night celebrating my Fiancés birthday with friends. My steak was a little fatty but apart from that it was fantastic. We love Ego and Sally serving us was a joy !!

Booked early but, still told certain meals not available variety didn’t appear as good on the day as seen on line Although part of our party didn’t arrive they were very obliging the place was clean and friendly Satnav route terrible taken down the side street to park mentioned when inside said, it had always had that problem? The sign for parking was also misleading as it didn’t mention Ego

First visit for us at Ego. The food and service was superb. All staff were super friendly and helpful. Special thanks to our server Sally who went above and beyond to make our visit relaxed and enjoyable. The food was fresh, delicious and well presented. Will highly recommend to our friends.

Great food at a great price, service was quick

Friendly team . Interesting menu. Fair size portions

Great food, excellent value and service. We will be back

Excellent tasty Mediterranean style food and great service from Lorraine and all staff. Friendly relaxed,atmosphere.A really enjoyable experience.

Great lunch menu and service from Lorraine. Would come back again.

Delicious food... fabulous service... pleasant surroundings.

Had lunch here on a Saturday. The food was good and the service was excellent.

Excellent, service and food. Will definitely be returning, thank you x

Good food, convivial atmosphere

Lovely food, friendly service by Sally.

Mia was a fantastic server, attention to detail was top notch, looked after our party of 6 and our dog brilliantly. Mia is a credit to your company She deserves praise

First visit. Great friendly staff. Food was excellent. Highly recommend.

Firt time here but certainly not the last. Lovely choice of food all really well cooked. Staff were interested, informative and friendly.

Recently visited the restaurant for a quick tea after shopping. The staff greeted us with a friendly face. We were offered the fixed price meals as well as the A La carte. We found the food exceptional value and extremely well presented. The waitresses were friendly and helpful. Well worth a visit.

Egos is a fantastic place to go for a meal. The staff are absolutely brilliant. Very attentive and quick too. 2 for 1 cocktails is a bargain. Everything is better in pairs. The food was perfect. Hanging chicken and chorizo kebab with a side of fries. Kebab was fresh and the glaze makes the dish next level. Fries were super hot and could tell they had been prepared fresh. Good value for money. A perfect Saturday night out for a meal. Well done Ego’s.

Celebrated husband's birthday We have had a lovely time at Ego Little Stanney ,the food was fantastic and our host Sally was such a lovely person nothing was to much trouble well done to everybody for making our trip to Ego very enjoyable Thank-you.