The best restaurants serving British food in Cheshire West and Chester North West

I really don’t like giving poor ratings because I recognise the difficulties in the hospitality industry at the moment but there were few saving graces here. The Mollington Banastre used to be one of Chester’s best hotels and excellent lunch venues but I hadn’t visited for years. When I saw a voucher on offer for afternoon tea I bought one for my wife and two friends for a trip down memory lane. What a disappointment. The dining room was empty but for us and lacked warmth and atmosphere. The food offering was incredibly poor. The sandwiches lacked taste and imagination, the scones were small and along with the cakes looked and tasted as though they had been bought up the road at Morrisons. The only positive was the service which was good. Afternoon tea isn’t necessarily a good guide to the main aspects of a hotel but the quality and ambiance we experienced give me concern. It will be years again before we choose to come back.

it's closed and gone now a vape shop. Please don't worry Frodsham has many great eateries for you to enjoy.

great place old school pub drinks you wont find anywhere else £3.60 for a pint of extra stout better than guiness very good value

Delicious vegan vanilla and honey comb ice creams along with 3 different vegan cakes, all fabulous, especially the Bakewell cheesecake. Didn't have to ask for vegan cones, she knew straight away which ones were appropriate.

Great time however was a tad dry haha. However good time was had by all. Oh and the toilet flushes itself

Fantastic stay, gr8 hotel, only bettered by its staff.

I rarely leave bad reviews but this was genuinely one of the worst meals I can remember having. Beef croquettes - awful texture and tasted of cheap BBQ sauce with a ‘siracha mayo’ which tasted suspiciously similar to Helmans burger sauce Pea, leak and asparagus risotto - I don’t even think you can call this a risotto. It was basically rice in pea water with cubed asparagus and leak. I have honestly made better meals in my home economics classes in school. To add insult to injury it was almost EIGHTEEN pounds. Truly shocking. Sticky toffee pudding - by this point we didn’t even want to eat anymore but we had bought a package so it was all included. I didn’t think you could go that wrong with a sticky toffee pudding but they found a way. It was burnt, cold and bitter. Awful. My partner got a burger (£19.00!?!?!?!!) and a cheesecake which were equally terrible. Had it not been for the package we had already booked and paid for, we would have left after the first course. The waitress was okay but it was all very amateur and slapdash. I would expect this sort of thing from a hungry horse pub but when they’re charging almost £20 per main you expect a bit more. Avoid at all costs.

Visited Chesters for lunch. The staff were all pleasant, After reading through the menu decided on fish and chips [£10.95] and coke. I didn't order the small portion as I was hungry. When it was brought to the table I've never seen such a small piece of fish and queried the portion size as I thought they had brought me the small one. But they hadn't. I can only assume the small size would have been half a fish finger. On paying I noticed they were charging £2.30 for the coke. It had said on the menu £1.95. When I queried the price I was told the £1.95 was for coke on tap and I'd had a can. RIP OFF PLACE [Or plaice}. AVOID

we have had a few days staying in the hotel on site, wanted something different for breakfast there's not really much to choose from there and then we decided to try here the food was hot and was delivered to the table, it was expensive for what we actually had but cooked well and enjoyable the coffee was the best one I had in days so much better than McDonalds one and costa the man who served us was so pleasant and chatty he was brilliant made us feel really welcome and couldn't enough for us