Meze Bar and Restaurant

Calling a bar by a name that even its bouncers cant pronounce is never a good idea, but it sets the scene for a place where the venue is a little twisted and the crowds thinks they know best. This two unit, double decker venue on the upper shelf of Chester’s town centre […]

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Fiesta Havana

A slice of restaurant combined with a mixed cocktail bar, combining the effect of being in a large fallout shelter with atmospheric arches and low coloured lighting with a strong assortment of drinks. Bright flowers decorate the bar and the first level drops away to a second with a bottle bar and a small […]

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The Barlounge

A heavily populated bar which as an initial impression gives the air of a trendy palace crammed full of people who feel that being their gives the cool image they need to survive their peers. The bar staff are very animated however and once we order our drinks it becomes clear that the barman […]

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The Burleydam

A family eatery, a spacious lounge for dining in which you are asked to place your order beside the front entrance in an orderly fashion and return to a fakely furnished table where the rest of your party sits gawking at the untamed children and families who wouldn’t know how to begin cooking a […]

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Duttons Wine Bar

Duttons is a big busy brooding pub with a large and noisy crowd, friendly enough and one of those kind of atmosphere’s that’s so filled with bustle that the bar itself feels messy with a thousand drinks spilled upon it and the poor barmaids looking drowned in orders of fifty drinks or more […]

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The Amber Lounge

On the Top shelf of central Chester sits the Amber lounge, a location whose name has apparently changed more times that than the guard outside Buckingham palace in the last few months. Outside is your usual balding burly bouncers and past the door is a slim bar which climbs up a short staircase […]

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Toby Carvery

You learn a lot about a restaurant/family pub on a sunday when you are forced to wait for a good hour or so to be seated in an almost empty restaurant. This building standing outside any town centre is a haven for those families of broad stomach and little mind. The Cavary itself is […]

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The Living Room

I haven’t the faintest idea why this is called a living room when you enter what feels like the entrance to a stables guarded by two burly bouncers, entering a quiet and small courtyard-type room and then wading into what feels like a grand old style pub-house with thick oak furnishings around, indoor […]

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Number Fifteen (No 15 Wine Bar Ltd)
In a drunken swagger we make our way around the streets of Chester and into this interesting looking wine bar neighbouring the close by Vodka Revolution and Wetherspoons. The place was bathed in an orangey glow from a scattering of low wattage halogen bulbs and with a few tables […]

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Watergates Wine Bar

Apparently this bar used to be a crypt of some description but now it serves as one of the most popular venues in Chester. Two burly bouncers stand guard at the top of a staircase which leads down past a plateau of a couple of tables and into a dark and Gothic venue […]

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