We went to the sticky walnut to celebrate my partners birthday. It’s a lovely little intimate place.
It was a special celebration and the food matched up to the occasion.
The waiter who looked after us had a good knowledge of all the dishes and described in detail when we asked him about the menu.
The food itself was absolutely fantastic.
We have eaten at a few Michelin star restaurants and the food here was as tasty as any food we have eaten in these, if not more so.
The best compliment I can give, is that all four of us will be back to the Sticky Walnut to try something else if we can get past the fact that we all loved what we have already eaten on the menu.
This restaurant is absolutely fabulous. The staff were attentive, friendly and efficient. The food was amazing from start to finish. As a vegan I let them know in advance and I arrived to a menu that had choices. I could have eaten it all...the bread and olives were the best I have ever had and that was just to begin. The whole meal was absolutely amazing. I will so be going back (when I can get booked in!) thank you our evening was brilliant. I will be recommending this wonderful restaurant to everyone I know. X
Vibrant, vivacious and busy restaurant with an innovative and ever changing menu.
Staff were friendly and welcoming , a young team but they knew their menu and drinks also. What a choice , had problems deciding but we were not disappointed. Beautiful flavours and well presented.......
I would totally recommend visiting Sticky Walnut, not only is the food scrumptious. The is lovely venue with a good ambiance and the staff were friendly and helpful....
My grandmother used to live in Hoole. It wasn’t very cool then; as kids our dining highlight was lunch in the Morrison’s cafe. We haven’t changed much – my sister and I still bicker incessantly after a few hours in each other’s company, and my dad still thinks it’s hilarious to wind everyone up – but luckily Hoole has. It’s now got some decent drinking holes, a hip barbershop doing a roaring beard trade, and the place we are here for – Sticky Walnut.
These are genuine questions myself and my husband asked each other while dining at Sticky Walnut a couple of weeks ago. . The menu at Sticky Walnut in Chester, chef Gary Usher’s first location in the north, had sounded slightly more appealing to me than that of the much-closer-to-home Hispi, so off we hopped on a train.
I’m not sure what I expected of Sticky Walnut, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t what we got. I don’t want to it to sound like I wasn’t happy; on the contrary; the small team here delivered an almost flawless meal from start to finish. It’s just that the place’s reputation conjures something more exuberant and flashier than the reality of a small bistro in a suburb of Chester. The décor is basic; bare tables and chairs, a blackboard, and a bookshelf adorned with some serious cookbooks. Staff wear jeans and aprons, looking and acting like they enjoy being there. It’s all a bit of a revelation to how dining can be with the stuffiness completely removed. As much as I enjoy donning a suit and tie to have dinner at Le Gavroche, I’m enjoying being here on the basis that they don’t care who I am provided I am not being a twat.
Took my wife for a birthday lunch as getting an evening booking difficult. Very interesting menu. Staff very helpful and efficient. We each had 3 courses and choose different dishes. All were very well presented and tasted great. Would have any of them again. We plan on booking an evening meal.
For all Chester's undoubted charms - the stunning medieval "rows", the Roman ruins, the zoo with its walk-through bat cave (a particular favourite of mine, that), it's probably fair to say that few people have ever made a special effort to visit this picturesque North West town for the dynamic food scene. OK, so there's the Grosvenor hotel which, over the years, has hosted a succession of high-falutin' chefs and I'm sure is very nice but a quick look at the menu tends to suggest it's the kind of star-chasing fine-dining that you'd find at any number of 5* hotel restaurants rooms up and down the country. Without wanting to denigrate Grosvenor chef Simon Radley's achievements, there's nothing particularly Chester about a £100/head tasting menu of Anjou pigeon with morels, and turbot and artichoke.
A little interview I did with chef Gary Usher of Sticky Walnut and Burnt Truffle fame along with the recent photo shoot. BACON: I was a bit surprised. when I first met you as you weren't really like I expected from your twitter. 'bantz' and rants. In the early days especially was it that you let out your understandable frustrations and stress on twitter?
GARY: Yes. In the early days I wrote many responses on Tripadvisor and deleted before sending because I didn't want potential guests to think I was arrogant. Instead I took the piss on Twitter with all the people who loved us.
My first proper blog post, and what better way to start than the Sticky Walnut in Hoole (nr. Chester), currently one of Cheshire’s most talked about restaurants. I must admit that I was a latecomer to the Sticky Walnut and only heard about it last year through a friend. After checking out the menu online I added it to the list of places to visit.
To start, people who work in the kitchen had put breast and leg from a quail in a bowl with a carrot purée, choi sum and some dukkah (which is a mixture of nuts, herbs and spices from Egypt (where the Pyramids are). Around this they had poured a vegetable ‘nage’, which is a type of poncy broth.
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Perfect local bistro. It's smashing! The chef trained at Chez Bruce (this is his first solo venture) and it shows. Both the room (pretty, bustly, cosy, casual, romantic) and the food are like a simpler, gutsier, more informal and British CB, and it's the same sort of 'perfect local bistro' but for a younger, Northern and less loaded crowd.
Salad of roasted beets, carrots, pumpkin seeds, sticky walnuts and ricotta to start. There was a kick of something fiery in there too. I then had a melting shin of beef in an unctuous sauce with a parsnip/celeriac/mustardy cream and truffle chips, and himself had a HUGE slab of rolled and stuffed pork belly with excellent crackling on lentils with bacon. Creme brulee and a good cheese plate (Beaufort, Gaberon, Munster and Fourme d'Ambert with walnut bread and quince) to close.
All just as they should be. Only thing that was a teensy bit off the mark was the speed with which the food arrived (service was otherwise excellent). We got our starters literally 5 minutes after ordering, which smacked of being pre-plated. And then our mains 5 mins after the starters had been cleared. They were obviously done to order but it would have been nice to have more of a breather. We were the first to arrive, so the kitchen will have had time to do our table...but it felt like they wanted to get our order out of the way asap, so we were pretty much done within an hour. At a lunchtime that would have been fine, but on a wintry Friday night you want to linger a bit...
Anyway. It's a nicer problem to have than the flipside, so we will definitely be back, but maybe just ask them to take their finger off fast forward..
Wanted to come here ages ago, so for our anniversary we stayed in the lovely Chester and throughly enjoyed our evening at Sticky Walnut, highly recommend this eatery. Many thanks to all the team, who clearly run very smoothly together. 👍
A gem of a find during our 2 night stay in Chester. I booked it a month ago after reading reviews.
Delighted to have celebrated our wedding anniversary here
Both menus are really good. I had the 3 course bistro menu ( red Thai fish cake, sticky chicken thighs and honeycomb ice cream,) my husband had the a la carte.(lamb rump and baked yoghurt)
Definitely worth a visit if you like good food and service!
We had a great experience from start to finish ! The service was great and the food was fantastic . We could see the chefs hard at work from our table. Went for our 5 year anniversary and had a brilliant time .
I booked a table for my 30th birthday and I loved it!
It was a very nice small restaurant with great service a lovely atmosphere and amazing food.
The item I wasn't too keen on was the spring roll which I thought was a bit naff.
Otherwise, everything else was great and they even catered for my vegan wife.
Oh, and their absolute best dish was their truffle chips, best chips I have ever had!
Fabulous food and service. Everything tasted wonderful. But it was the extra touches... the 'happy anniversary' and the 'do you I require a taxi?' not expected, but very welcome ... lovely evening, and can't wait to return. Thank you 😊
Nice, varied menu. Struggled to choose. Delightful birthday meal. Will definitely be back.
Great service and nice staff.
The food was very good, the chicken liver paté was amazing. Nice portion sizes and fair prices
My first time here after wanting to go for years and boy was it worth the wait. We chanced a visit at lunch time for my birthday treat. We had the 3 course lunch (£40 or 2 courses for £35). The sharing sirloin steak was an additional £30.
It was such high quality and they didn't scrimp on portion sizes either 👍. My dog even benefitted with the bone 🍖😁.
A fantastic little bistro with a great lunchtime menu. We try and stop of for lunch on our way to Anglesey for our holidays. It's one of the highlights
Had an amazing lunch, warm atmosphere, felt comfortable and clean. Great service and a very, very reasonably priced lunch considering the quality of ingredients and cooking. Would highly recommend and definitely visit again when back in the area.
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