Baltic Market — Restaurant in Liverpool

What a fab spot! My wife and I have been here 2/3 times. Yesterday we went with my sister and brother in-law. There’s always a good atmosphere and quite popular. They have around 8-12 food and drink stalls to choose from. You can order on your phone using QR code on one of the several tables. Despite it being busy, you can usually get a table as there are plenty inside and out. They sometimes have live music and there is a massive screen for live events. Staff are pretty swift and on the ball. Now down to the food. There’s plenty to choose from so it took me a while to finally decide. I ended up getting probably too much although I did finish everything. I got these salt and pepper loaded hash from Patterson’s Chicken, which tasted awesome. My wife also got loaded katsu chicken fries from them too which she really enjoyed. I was really looking forward to some Halloumi fries so I got some from Hafla Hafla but they were very disappointing. I was quite thankful that they didn’t give you as much as in the picture because they weren’t that nice. I usually like tahini but this one tasted foul and ruined the fries. I also felt the Halloumi wasn’t very firm and was quite gooey. I didn’t get any taste of mint which was advertised. However, these BBQ glazed Chicky Nugz from Richie’s Burgers were bangin’. The sauce was delicious and the chicken was well cooked and tender. I also got some Tequenos from Noso which rolled up pastry filled with the special cheese. These were really nice. Even tastier when dipped into the garlic dip provided. My last savoury dish was these fried beef ragu bites from La Bistrotheque which were good. Finally for dessert we all got something from midnight delivery. I got this kinder donut stack which was ok. It looked better than it tasted. It was very sweet and the donuts were more like buns as they were too soft and tasteless. It tasted very artificial. Although, I don’t know why I was expecting a tasty donut. My wife got a cookie sandwich which was better than mines. My sister got a chocolate orange lava cake which was decent and so was the Daim cheesecake my brother in-law got. I feel that MD doesn’t have the best quality but I like how they have different specials so you can try something different. Overall we enjoyed our little visit here. The service was faster than we anticipated and the food was mostly good. I did find that some of it was quite expensive. My brother ordered 2 glasses of coke which was £8! The most expensive item I ordered was the Halloumi fries at £7.95 which was my least favourite. We’ll for sure come back. I want to try the Greek food. They were unfortunately not open when...

Great atmosphere with nice food but the service was mixed.

I’ve always wanted to visit this food market since it first opened and it’s received lots of positive reviews over the years. It’s just been a bit inconvenient location-wise.

This food market is located near the city centre, around 20-25 minutes walk from Lime Street train station.

Luckily this food market reopened and is participating in the eat out to help out food scheme so there’s 50% off food and drinks.

The first thing to note is that there is a massive queue to gain entry, I arrived around 5pm expecting there to be a queue and it was longer than I expected, I waited around 45mins before I managed to enter.

To order you need to scan a bar code before entry to allow them to know you’re in the food market. After that you order through the Uber eats app, using the dine-in option. There wasn’t many options for food surprisingly, six or seven restaurants if I recall correctly. I’m not sure whether this was because of the pandemic or whether it is normally the selected restaurants.

I ordered a pint of lemonade for drinks, it took a while to arrive since there’s a lot of people in the market, my food actually arrived first. The lemonade had too much ice too so the drink was actually less than a pint.

I ordered the ‘peppercorn’ from ‘beef on the block’ which usually costs £10. The steak was cooked rare and it was juicy and tender. The peppercorn sauce is a classic and there were plenty of fries. I really enjoyed this dish.

I also ordered the ‘Korean fried chicken (Gangnam Style)’ from ‘little korea’ which usually costs £8.50. The fried chicken wasn’t the best Korean fried chicken I’ve tasted and the rice was meant to be sticky but it seemed like it was just plain rice. Overall, the sweet and spicy sauce was nice but the chicken and rice wasn’t as good. I wouldn’t order from there again.

Later, I ordered a pint of coke to drink while I was finishing my food, as I had finished the lemonade I ordered. The coke arrived very late and I had already finished my food. So the drinks orders were very slow to arrive.

Overall, I loved the steak with fries from beef on the block but the Korean food wasn’t as good and the drinks service was very slow. Prices are a bit on the pricey side but this is coming from a student’s point of view. There aren’t a great number of options for food, no options for dessert either. I would like to come back again in the future and see if there are any different...

POSITIVE - Great vibe, it's like a BOXPARK lots of different food stalls with communal space to sit anywhere. went on Sunday and they have a live band. Food was OK nothing special.

Minty Lamb ribs from La Bistro were overcooked and therefore tough, dry and hard to swallow.

Wings from NASHVILLE were great

Steak frites were also good from La Bistro

NEGATIVE DUE TO BAD SERVICE - POLPETTA chicken spaghetti topped with mozzarella lacked flavour, had to ask for salt.

So we were there with our 2 year old, some spaghetti slid off her high chair fell on the floor, as we were leaving we flagged the cleaner walking around and apologised for the mess. As most people know, taking toddlers out for food can be stressful as it is.

Anyway we were walking through the venue towards the door and one of the chefs - the fat one with a beard came running over and asked us how we are going to leave whilst there was a mess on the floor from our 2yrd old. We were so confused lol we said what do u expect to do? Go find cleaning materials and clean it ourselves?lol. We already flagged a cleaner. I mean, it was weird. Part of owning a restaurant is dealing with accidental spills etc. But the chefs don't even need to clean, the venue has a team of cleaners cleaning everywhere constantly, people spilling pints and cleaning tables etc.

Never had that happen before, we were shocked at the audacity to be honest. Bad service to go with...