The Ship Inn — Restaurant in England

On my recent trip to a conference in England I elected to have dinner here on the way back to the boat home. I booked it online and arrived a few minutes early. I was glad that I had booked because it was getting busy and lots of tables were reserved (including mine). They let you book for just a party of one which is ideal for me, and unfortunately a lot of restaurants don't allow this which makes it difficult for single folks like me. The service was warm and friendly from start to finish. The menu has plenty of options but not so many options that you're paralysed by choices. I had the fish and chips. I was very glad that you can change the mushy peas to ordinary garden peas, not sure what was wrong with ordinary peas as everything seems to be mushy now. They offer a small or large portion of fish and chips, which is just wonderful if you're not hungry enough for a bigger portion. The fish was fresh and the batter perfectly done. The chips were dry and lovely, as you desire in a chip. The peas were excellent. I had three scoops of ice cream for desert, which was beautiful and locally made. I wanted the bill but had to go to the counter to get it and pay, not a problem however. I paid £16.44 for fish and chips (large), three scoops of ice cream and a pint of coca cola. Smashing value for money! I would highly recommend this restaurant and look forward to returning when I'm next in Chester! Highly...

Unfortunately we found dinner at the Ship Inn to be deeply uninspired and disappointing. We dined upstairs, where there was a distinct lack of atmosphere, eating at a badly marked table with noticeable cobwebs and marks on the walls, lights and ceiling.

I had the burger and chips. The chips and burger bun, lettuce and bacon were all good. The burger was apparently a 6oz steak burger - this clearly wasn't the case; it tasted identical to an end-of-night burger van burger and was severely disappointing. For £16, this isn't good enough. One of our party had the vegan moussaka and said it was atrocious.

The desert was apparently very nice (I didn't have any), but I suspect a microwave was involved (as with the mains I feel). The only highlight was that service was attentive and polite.

I wouldn't recommend dining at the Ship Inn - the food just wasn't anywhere near the standard you'd expect for a Saturday evening meal. The Ship has three floors and had 3 wait staff on our floor alone. I recommend that time and money should go into refurbishing and updating the interiors and improving the quality of ingredients.

It's in a lovely location with a lot of competition from neighbouring pubs in a beautiful city - it needs...

Went on short notice for a Sunday afternoon meal (17th Dec). They managed to squeeze us in (phoned to book 2 hours previous). Having never been before I didn't know what to expect, but I'm glad we went. The interior is great, really warm, homely, big log fire keeping out the winter chill. The staff were brilliant, really attentive without any falseness that you get in some places. The food was fantastic. Roast Beef Dinner and a Steak and Ale pie with mash. The roast Beef was well cooked and sliced nice and thick, the Gravy was fantastic and the veg was perfectly cooked, hot and crunchy. The pie (my order) was well filled, the meat was really tasty, and the pastry was great, again, good veg, tasty gravy , and a big helping of lovely fluffy mash. Deserts.... We almost said no as we were quite content after the main. But we folded and ordered Raspberry cheesecake with raspberry ripple and a Sticky Toffee pudding with custard. Both were generous portions and tastes great. Nice hot custard on the sticky Toffee pudding. 👍 All in all, a great meal, would definitely recommend. (Would also recommend booking...