I seem to spend a large amount of my time in leaf, I’m often in there drinking tea, drinking beer or eating cake, or sometimes all three. It’s the welcoming atmosphere, nice drinks and good food combined with free wifi that make it such a great place to waste some time. I’ve written about it several times, and in effort not to be a bore, banging on about the same places again and again, I’ll keep this short. Leaf does a pretty decent burger.
Lunya has been around for a year or two, establishing itself, not only as a respected restaurant, but also a well stocked and interesting deli. It’s rare for me to come across any negative comments about Lunya, indeed what I mainly hear is rave reviews. I’d been there once before and found the food to be very good, but with a few technical issues, the bread (as is typical for me) being foremost in my thoughts as something that needed work. This week, while wandering through town, a friend and I passed Lunya thinking about getting some lunch, the offer of three plates of tapas and bread for £9.95 proved too tempting to walk past. Continue reading
For seven years Spire has been going about its business, serving very good food and building an enviable reputation. The recent ‘best restaurant in the north-west’ award from The Good Food Guide, serves to highlight the great work put in by the restaurant team. Having eaten there several times before, but not recently, I decided their early evening menu was worth further scrutiny. Continue reading
The Siam Garden has been around for a long time, and I used to go quite regularly, however I think its been almost ten years since I was last there. My avoidance was never intentional, but with the increasing and improving restaurant scene in Liverpool my attention was drawn elsewhere. The Siam Garden always offered very good and fresh traditional Thai food andIi don’t remember having a bad meal there. Thus as we took our seats at 7:30 on a Saturday evening, surrounded by empty tables, I was hoping the lack of other diners was not representative of the meal to come.
I’m very pleased to say that our meal was very good, the menu hasn’t changes much, or at all, over the last ten years, but that doesn’t detract from the quality. Out stuffed chicken wing where tasty and interesting and out mains of a duck red curry and whole grilled fish were both very good. This was (I believe) the first and only Thai restaurant in Liverpool for some time, It isn’t any more, but its still arguably the best. Chaophraya in town seems to draw flocks of people yet the food isn’t comparable to the Siam Garden. I’ll make sure that it isn’t another ten years until my next visit.
