Côte Chester

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1. Karen Kennedy ★★★★★

   Had a lovely meal on Saturday night for our 10th Wedding anniversary. All staff were friendly and professional, especially Alex who looked after us so well. Souffle was fabulous and the Belly Pork & Bourguignon was amazing. We had cheese board and wine and couldn't fault anything. The complimentary glass of fizz was much appreciated. Would recommend and would definitely go back.

   almost 4 months ago
2. Leila Platt ★★★★★

   We had the prix fixe menu and it was delicious and very good value. The crispy whitebait were very moorish and the tagine a welcome vegetarian dish. The service was attentive thank you

   almost 4 months ago
3. Abdul Uddin ★★★★★

   Very good food for a chain restaurant- pleasantly surprised. Long menu and seasonal dishes. Lamb shank was a lot better than I thought it would be - definitely recommended; same too about the three seasonal dishes. Staff professional but rushed off their feet.

   almost 7 months ago

1. Tom Elner ★★★★★

   I had breakfast here today and was delighted by the experience. I ate the Garden breakfast and my wife had the Cote breakfast but gluten free. We both had a side of the black pudding (Boudin Noir). On the face of it you would easily be misled into thinking the Cote breakfast is essentially a full English, however everything has a lovely French twist to it. I would highly recommend having the black pudding - it's sweeter and softer than English black pudding. I love both, but this is very different and very delicious. The fresh orange juice was delicious and good quality and the coffees were great bean to cup with a good strength. We will definitely be coming back for dinner some time.

   almost 8 months ago
2. Hüseyin E B ★★★★★

   Great food, lovely staff, great atmosphere. It’s a very convenient place for romantic dates as well. They have been so kind that they offered us drinks on my birthday. We enjoy their duck every time. They also have a very tasty onion soup. This place has much wider space than it looks from outside. Proper for big group meetings including company dinners.

   1 year ago
3. julia parry ★★★★★

   This is such a lovely restaurant, it was recommended by a Spanish friend who generally detested British food, she said it was nice and I have to agree. Every time I've been I've had a fab night. Great food, good atmosphere. I highly recommend

   almost 2 years ago

1. karen stevenson ★☆☆☆☆

   unfortunate breakfast experience as i have had very good meals in Chester and other branches of the restaurant. Food was shockingly bad- all breakfast choices were egg based - first poached eggs like bullets and smashed avocado was almost non existent on sour dough toast My husband had a bacon sandwich which had sparse and burnt bacon I sent back my meal but eggs came uncooked with whites raw and the yolk over plate To be fair they only charged us for the glass of champagne each we had had( was a celebration) and waiting staff were very good but a spoilt experience- if you are going to do breakfast you need to know how to cook poached eggs and not burn bacon What a shame as usually a good chain restaurant

   almost 3 years ago
2. victoria ramos ★★★★★

   Fabulous place! We got served by an Italian girl called Elenora on my birthday. She made me feel so special and looked after us well. Champagne and food was faultless. Thank you so much. The comment under me by "Davy" is nonsense. Get a life.

   almost 3 years ago
3. Patrik Strnad ★★★☆☆

   The restaurant is nice, very fine setting and extremely friendly staff. Pros: The food was tasty and very well presented. The drinks were extremely satisfactory (I get my Espresso Martini in every restaurant we go to and so far this one has done it the best out of all of them). The atmosphere was comfortable and well set. And as mentioned above, the staff were friendly and helpful. Cons: It's a rather small space, tables were less than a few feet apart, they were so close that we could hear what the other 3 tables around us were ordering and then talking about whilst having our conversation. Not something that would bother us extremely, but it sure felt crowded even though it wasn't. The food. Whilst it looks fabulous, the experience was a little different. I mean, my baguette with the chicken liver was stone cold, I do like crunch but biting into that just felt like biting into dry bread. Yet the liver itself was delicious. Still not £10 worthy in my opinion. The burger also arrived at slightly above room temperature. Once I was halfway through I was eating a cold burger with warm fries... (their fries are delicious though). Once again, however, the meal is not £15 worthy. I'm 6"8 and it filled me up but the experience of the burger meal itself was £12 at best. I wouldn't say I was disappointed, it was nice, and my girlfriend and I both enjoyed it. She loved her French onion soup and the fish stew she's got too. I would say that I was expecting it to be a bit better based on the prices... I was going to go for 5*, but after consideration, I decided to give it 4* because it didn't go above and beyond my expectations The whole night cost me approx. £75 including 2 starters, 2 mains, 2 drinks and 1 750ml bottle of sparkling water between the two of us (which btw that alone was £5). I came with £150 expecting to pay about £80-90, the final bill isn't the problem, it's the fact that it wasn't the best value for money. And the way they have their tips set is a little cheeky if you ask me. When you ask for the bill they hand it to you with a subtotal of the actual price of it, and then the final total is with another "optional gratitude" that's 12.50% (in our case that made about £8.50). Which is perfectly fine, I was going.to tip anyway, but I was slightly shocked when the waiter came with the card reader and just put the full bill including the tip in and smiled expecting me to swipe my card. Didn't feel very optional to me... of course, I suppose I could've said "I don't want to tip" but who's going to be the a$$hole and say that knowing the 3 tables around you can hear every word... I didn't mind tipping £8, again, money doesn't make it the issue, the part that made me a little uneasy is the fact that it didn't feel optional at all when they come expecting you to just take it. I would personally appreciate it a lot more if he would say "would you like to tip?" Or at least have some sort of menu on the card reader to select the tip as most places do. Overall, 4* is what I'm going to go with. I do recommend it but I won't be visiting again. ________________________________ **EDIT** Just about 3 hours after I wrote that review, my girlfriend threw up her previous night's Fish Stew in the hotel lobby, and I ended up on the toilet for an hour with... well you can fill out the blanks. I know for a fact that it's from Côte as we had nothing in between that dinner and the accident apart from a morning cup of tea. I'm not entirely sure if this is just an unlucky visit, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and rate it at 3*. The experience wasn't the worse, but the aftermath isn't pleasantry.

   almost 3 years ago

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