Sticky Walnut

We always enjoy the food here, tasty with a delicious twist. Lunchtime menu was top notch as a birthday treat. A mistake was made with the bill, charged fir evening 2 courses instead of Lunchtime charge. However this was soon rectified when we rang to explain. Lovely staff, excellent atmosphere of casual smart

The lunchtime Bistro Menu which changes on a monthly basis is such value for money for high end dining. Choose between 2 or 3 courses - prior booking not always necessary. Allow yourself at least a good hour.

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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One of the best restaurants in Chester for a special meal for two. Highly recommended 👌 . Its also worth checking out their bakery, "Usher's Bakehouse" around the corner too if you're out early enough before it all sells out

Excellent evening once again! Menu changes regularly and there ate often different specials too. We enjoyed 3 delicious different courses each - perfect treat for a Saturday night. Will hopefully be back again soon.

Absolutely phenomenal! We got the pigs cheek, rarebit on brioche, duck confit and venison for mains and the chocolate oblivion and stick toffee for dessert. Every single course was absolutely incredible!

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 🍖😁.

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Outstanding food, this meal has topped anything I’ve had anywhere! Cannot believe we have only just discovered it when this is so close to home! Couldn’t choose a favourite dish from tonight because each one was perfect! Thank you for a great night! Now my new favourite place and will have to bring my family and friends back here so they can experience it too!

Wow!! A few years between this visit and my last and we absolutely loved it. People lovely, service fab and food outstanding (apologies if my photos don’t do it justice). Simply wow, and also recommend the wine pairing it definitely enhanced the experience.

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!

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Superb lunch. Every element was well cooked and well presented. Spending around £100 on lunch (inc. a small glass of wine each) feels a bit indulgent but every mouthful was delicious and you are really being treated to something special / so indulge yourself. Second visit here. We had dinner a couple of years ago. I won’t leave it that long again. We had pate/halibut and Thai fish cake/steak frites along with honeycomb ice cream. I’d recommend everything!

Always delish and a delight! Our starters were really great. If I ordered again I'd definitely go for the belly bacon over the sea trout. The latter was very nice but the bacon was next level. We had the ham hock to share for our main, which fell off the bone and had plenty of parsley sauce. Very nice wines by the glass too.

Great service and nice staff. The food was very good, the chicken liver paté was amazing. Nice portion sizes and fair prices

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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 .

We were invited to this gem of a restaurant for dinner and loved everything about it. A really interesting and varied menu, and I would happily have chosen each dish ordered around our table (unusual for me). Not a large place - some seating upstairs I understand so was glad to have booked. The service made the evening - attentive, helpful but not too fussy. Thanks so much all of you, we'll be back.

The best meal I have ever had in Chester! Exquisite flavours and friendly staff would highly recommend! Compliments to the chef X x

Lovely food. Great service. One of the best places in Chester. 3 courses and wine approx £110. Book well in advance at weekends.

Excellent pre races breakfast. Warm, friendly and professional service.

Absolutely fantastic food and great service. Loved our meal, will be back.

Been wanting to go here for a while and it did not disappoint,the food is just stunning lovely staff too....ticked off our list of gary usher bistros just 3 more to do now.

We went on Christmas eve for dinner and was a lovely meal from start to finish. The celeriac dish was sublime and beautifully presented. Fresh mackerel to start and honeycomb ice cream to end. Good friendly service altogether a great way to start Christmas.

Great restaurant with very friendly service. The food was delicious and the atmosphere was great. The best part was the dessert - a choux bun. I’m not normally a fan of fruit with chocolate, but the marmalade a cream went so well! It is quite expensive - £8 for pate seems a bit unnecessary. It was also the only disappointing part of our meal - a slice of pate with a wedge of bread - just didn’t justify the £8 fee. Will come back again!

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 😊

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. 👍

Amazing 👏 fantastic menu. Great food and lovely staff. One of the best in Chester.

A lovely dining experience. Fabulous food in an unstuffy atmosphere. My starter ranked as one of my best tasting dishes ever.

A cosy, unique restaurant where the food is outstanding yet reasonably priced and the staff are so friendly and accommodating.

Just amazing food and knowledgeable staff. Abs a delightful space. Bold food combinations that stay close to the love of food. Could so easily have fallen into quite a few pretentiousness traps. But sailed well clear of those.

This was our first time here- but definitely not our last. Food was absolutely amazing- Atmosphere very relaxed. Special mention to Izzy who looked after us.

The food remains consistent and good, but portions remain small; the price point may be higher than expected because sides are necessary. The bistro menu offers reasonable value.

Very good local restaurant. Well worth a visit & recommended. Chicken schnitzel & sea bream for us.

Truffle parmesan wedges are a MUST have. Best wedges I've had in my life and internationally so far . Order as a side if not included in meal. Starter portion a bit tiny. Mackerel was fresh and perfectly done. Not dry or overdone . Braised featherback could be softer but it is delicious and the sauce is rich !

My wife and I booked the Valentine's Day meal, which was £69 per person, plus drinks. Although we received good service and the food was delicious, the meagre portion sizes left us disappointed. By the time we had consumed the "snack", starter and main, we were considering stopping off for something to eat on the way home, as we were still so hungry! The beef Wellington was advertised as "for two to share" which implied that it was quite substantial. Instead, it was served as two tiny individual portions, there was nothing "to share" about it. It wasn't even served with a potato dish, with the explanation that "the pastry is very rich" which was nonsense. Annoyingly, one of the servings was significantly smaller than the other; an observation which my wife also overhead another table commenting on to their waitress. The dessert was the only course that was reasonably portioned. As the other courses were so small, we got through everything rather quickly. My wife had visited the restaurant previously with a friend and had a lovely meal, so wanted to share the experience with me. Instead, we left feeling that we had been conned and won't be returning.

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Me and the Mrs found this place a bit meh to be honest. Cold red wine served with food with average taste. Resorted to warming the wine on the radiator as the waitor wasn't interested in resolving. Service could have been more attentive too. For the price, we were pretty disappointed. Perhaps we were just unlucky that night.

Great wine list and decently priced menu. Inventive cooking with very interesting elements, not done as well as it could be but very decent. Their signature beef dish was good - flakey meat and lovely sauce but very dry still. The spinach and potato cake lacked flavor and, again, was dry and heavy in texture. Tomato miso salad was well seasoned and the cardamom doughnuts were light and interesting. Mains are £11, sides £3, starters and desserts £5. Service, however, is painfully slow but polite.

We visited Sticky Walnut last night after hearing great things about it from several people. The restaurant has a strong reputation, so we were really looking forward to the meal. Unfortunately, the experience didn’t quite live up to expectations. The menu had just changed and was quite limited. For our main, we had little choice but to order the double steak for two — not ideal since my partner prefers rare and I like medium. The steak arrived cooked somewhere in between, but it was on the small side and definitely not enough for two people. The potatoes were under-seasoned and rather dry, and while the salad looked pretty and fresh, it felt more like a garnish than a proper side. For starters, we had the bread and butter, but the butter was simply smeared on the side of the plate and the presentation was disappointing for a restaurant with this kind of reputation. Service was mixed — it took about 15 minutes before we were served, though once Camilla came over, she was lovely and chased up our drinks promptly. The wine was on the expensive side but unfortunately not the best quality. We did raise our concerns, and to their credit, the staff were understanding. They offered complimentary drinks, which was appreciated and did make us feel better. However, even after the discount, the total came to around £100, and we still left hungry — we actually stopped for McDonald’s on the way home. Overall, while the service was friendly and they tried to make things right, the food and value for money just didn’t match the high expectations or the reputation

After hearing good things from locals and seeing the good reviews online we had high hopes for this place, but honestly we were very disappointed. The only positive was the service, staff were attentive and friendly. The atmosphere on the other hand reminded me of somewhere that you may go for breakfast. It didn't have that upmarket intimate feel that you would expect when paying the type of prices that this restaurant commands. Upstairs was hot,cramped, and poorly lit. The toilets were like something you would find at a takeaway - tiny, old, badly decorated. Remember this places charges you £50 per head and £52 for a bottle of average Malbec. Let's be real here. The food was mediocre at best. We had the braised pig cheek to start, the meat was dry, hard, about the size of my thumb and the sauce lacked any depth of flavour you expect with this type of slow cooked dish. I went into my second course hungry and disappointed. The venison (two ways) turned up well presented but in a bowl. Why? Completely the wrong type of plate for this dish. This dish had a very well cooked piece of meat some celeriac puree, smoked bacon a roasted onion and a venison sausage (dry). It was ok and an improvement from the starter but again nothing that wowed me or left me longing for more. Lastly the desert with was a thimble full of ice cream, chocolate sauce and a huge piece of honey comb balanced on the top. A confused dessert that seemed like an after thought by the pastry chef. I wanted this place to shine but it was such a disappointment.

We ordered the sirloin with two starters and although it was cooked to the requested doneness, the overall quality was disappointing. The steak lacked flavor and tenderness, and the sides didn’t taste fresh or well-seasoned. Unfortunately, the meal didn’t meet expectations.

Very poor experience unfortunately. Food is great. Service was slow and the experience was poor. We were moved after being settled from a nice warm room, to a cold upstairs table with no atmosphere. Nice staff but need better planning needed.

My partner and I booked here for the Valentine's set meal for an eye-watering £75 per person (!) and we felt utterly conned. We had the duck spring roll and the soup for starter, which were both fine but tiny in portion size. For the main, we shared the châteaubriand steak, with some broccoli stems and fries. Again, this was just okay and a big let down as the apparent main focus of the meal, but there simply wasn't enough to share. The dessert was exceptionally awful. We ordered the fig cake and the passionfruit pastry, both of which were disgusting. The fig cake was topped with camembert, a choice that simply didn't work. Both desserts had a couple of very reluctant bites before being pushed aside. The stand out of the evening was the fries, which aren't exactly difficult to mess up. The place also lacked any atmosphere, and we left still feeling hungry. However, the service and members of staff were absolutely fantastic and looked after us very well for the evening. They are a true asset to Sticky Walnut.

If you want to pay 45 pounds a head for an average sirloin steak this is the place to be! Frankly the lunch menu is misleading and sadly the staff don't get what the problem is when in Hoole you charge a premium for a pub quality piece of meat