Restaurants in Merseyside

Liverpool's rejuvenation as a city of culture and tourism has brought with it an explosion in high-class eating places. The stunning Albert Dock waterside development is one of its most impressive showpieces, but there is plenty of high-octane culinary action elsewhere - especially around Hope Street.

The city also boasts one of the oldest established Chinese communities in the UK and the restaurant scene is thriving.

Beyond Liverpool itself, there is good food to be had in the Wirral and also beside the seaside around Southport.

Thornton Hall Hotel The Italian Room - Wirral Billed as 'Wirral's country hotel', this substantial Victorian manor was voted 'Merseyside Hotel of the Year' in 2006. The interior has many marvellous features

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The London Carriage Works Currently the talk of the town, this recent arrival on the scene is classily located in the glitzy surroundings of Liverpool's first boutique hotel on Hope Street in the center of the cultural quarter

The Warehouse Brasserie When it opened, this stylish contemporary venue certainly put Southport back on the gastronomic map