The best restaurants in Ellesmere Port Town Cheshire West and Chester North West

Came to the market for the first time today, a few eateries but we chose Laura’s, lovely bacon and egg toastie x 2, one tea and one coffee, just over £8 which is excellent value, will eat again when next at the market.

Food great However cash only and not warned of this when booking or on arrival. After we'd scrabbled around to see what we had (not enough)they pointed about a cash machine across the road! Also confusion in that there are two two different TripAdvisor entries the them , this one and one which also includes comments which must have come for their predecessor (Sizzlin Spice)

The food is nice (most important) but small portions and doesn't offer great value. Staff in this particular Wagamama's are always friendly and attentive, which is good. Often gets inexplicably busy, which considering the relatively poor value and the fact you are basically sitting at a bench shared with other diners always puts me off.

Absolutely lovely. Had the Pathia which was stunning - hotish, not stupidly hot so that you can't taste anything, and the Badami which which exceptionally thick, maybe a little too much so, but very flavoursome! Thank you!

We’ve not eaten food from here before but wow, we’ve been missing out. We had our food delivered and was hot and earlier than scheduled (bonus) we would highly recommend this place to anyone. Compliments to the chef. Can’t wait for next time.

Once again Nicci on the bar greeted me with a warm smile. Took my food and drinks order with her refreshing attitude, simply made me feel welcome. The food took a while to come, full rack of ribs with all the trimmings but boy was it worth the wait. The bones slid out of the meat, the chips and onion rings were crispy and golden. Highly recommended place to visit, food, drinks and ambience are off the scale. Actually took the time to thank Gill (chef) for the food with regard to the quality and presentation. Will DEF use here again, thanks ladies.

Absolutely fabulous, had the chips with salsa and cheese sauce etc and they were so filling and tasty. I don't live nearby to Ellesmere Port at all but when I do go once in a while, I make sure to visit this stand for food vs anywhere else because it's such good quality and value!

Always friendly staff, great service & always treated like a member of the family.

Amazing restaurant with a real unique and high quality vibe. Great menu options and lots of fun. Staff are amazing and the whole place is a delight.

The portion sizes are generous, but the prices are quite high compared to similar restaurants. Hygiene standards could use improvement, and unfortunately, the taste of the food is underwhelming. Most of the sauces are overly salty, making the overall experience disappointing. I won’t be returning.

The nicest takeout never had an issue food is always top notch and quality food the flavours are summit else and the blue cheese dip is so nice defo recommend to people and will keep being a regular customer 🙂

Fantastic fish & chips, delivered on time. Also food was hot

Lovely meal, server Michelle was very friendly and helpful.

Not the best, usually come here all the time and it's flawless but had to return my food twice as asked for my steak to be very well done and come out still pink in the middle 🤢 also asked for no egg and came with egg . Kerry working behind the bar absolutely lovely 🙂

Chiquito, Ellesmere Port – 4pm on a Wednesday (Tex-Mex meets Travelodge lobby) We visited Chiquito at 4pm, the mealtime equivalent of a shrug. Too late for lunch, too early for dinner — that strange hinterland where you question all your life choices and seriously consider ordering nachos as a personality trait. The restaurant was about a third full, mostly people quietly chewing in laminated booths under mood lighting set permanently to “dusk in a theme park.” Staff hovered with polite smiles and the low-level energy of people who’ve already been asked three times whether fajitas come with sour cream. Then there were the walls. The walls were a riot of painted cacti, sombreros, and fake hacienda charm. It’s the sort of décor that feels like someone described Mexico to a man who once went to Benidorm and then asked him to design a restaurant. There were lizards on the lampshades. LIZARDS. I half expected the waiter to shout “Olé!” and slide across the floor like a flamenco-themed fire drill. It felt less like dining in Mexico and more like visiting a Mexican-themed gift shop run by a bloke called Keith. I had the jackfruit enchiladas — which, to be fair, looked the part. Smothered in sauce, hidden under a duvet of melted cheese, they arrived piping hot and carrying the faint aroma of optimism. Jackfruit is a brave choice. It has the texture of pulled pork if you squint, but the flavour of damp optimism. Still, it worked — kind of. My wife had chicken burritos and described them as “alright,” which in marriage code translates roughly to: “Don’t ask me to elaborate.” Service was friendly but moved at the pace of a sleepy burro. Lovely people, just in no rush whatsoever. We were halfway through our mains before we even noticed we didn’t have cutlery. For a moment, I considered eating with my hands in tribute to ancient Mayan traditions, but then remembered I was in Ellesmere Port, not Tulum. Now, atmosphere-wise, it wants to be a fiesta. There are bright colours, themed cocktails, and a playlist that thinks Ricky Martin is the cultural pinnacle of Latin America. But it never quite lifts off. It’s like watching someone try to start a party with a kazoo and a bag of tortilla chips. Suggestions (from a self-appointed Fiesta Consultant): • Replace the lizards with live maracas. Or at least glue googly eyes to them. • Include a “Spice Roulette” menu — one enchilada is secretly filled with Scotch Bonnet hellfire. Make dinner exciting again. • Add a dramatic “Guac Table Service” where someone in a sombrero makes guacamole at your table while narrating their heartbreak in Spanish. • Hire someone to slowly strum a guitar in the corner and look wistfully into the distance, just to create that moody telenovela vibe. Final verdict? Not a bad meal. No disasters. No flavour epiphanies. It’s the kind of place where the food fills you up, the decor gives you something to stare at, and the drinks are probably stronger than they should be at 4pm on a school night. Exactly what it says on the tin. That tin may be made of papier-mâché and wearing a sombrero, but hey — it’s trying its best.