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

Ate here with family & although our waitress was good & the food arrived quickly, the dishes were grossly over priced considering the portion sizes & lack of meat. For example the Pad Thai chicken & prawn (item no. 48) was full of fillers (cheap stuff) like noodles & beansprouts & had only 4 small prawns & a few tiny (1cm) pieces of chicken. Considering the price of chicken (£4 for a 2kg chicken) & prawns (£2 for 250 gm) in a supermarket, I calculated the total food material cost to be less than £1 - which means the profit margin (at the sales price of £15) is above 1400% ! This clearly shows the extreme greed of the Wagamama owners because normal restaurants typically operate at margins of 20 to 100%. Of course, Wagamama will argue that the labour cost is excluded in this calculation but considering that the food arrived within 10 minutes, the labour cost at £12 per hour works out to around £2. Another dish, Yaki Soba chicken & prawn was again all noodles with very little meat and looking through the reviews I can see customers in 2021 & 2022 complaining about high cost & low meat content. These overpriced dishes are a sign of the cynical attitude & strategy of the owners to maximise profits instead of trying to delight customers with good value - so that they will come back for more in the future. Considering that most customers visiting Cheshire Oaks visit from near & far to get bargains on designer brands, and may not visit that often, the owners strategy appears to be working and I wouldn't be surprised if other restaurants in Cheshire Oaks have the same strategy ! I certainly will not be eating at Wagamama again.

I go around certain pubs, grills and restaurants in Ellesmere port and I personally think this my 2nd favourite one (My 1st would be KFC).