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

Great food and really good service

Just visited The Oaklands Hotel and tried their carvery in The Amore Restaurant. We had excellent service from the manager and the staff who were on today. There was a great variety of food to try including four different types of meat, plenty of fresh cooked vegetables and sides to go along with it. We were we served plenty of meat before helping ourselves to everything else. Probably nicest carvery/Sunday dinner in the area and it won't be long before we are back there again.

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).

Best food and bubble tea in the area. Staff are lovely too! The onigiri, donburi and teppanyaki are my favourites, so much flavour and great value!