60 Hope Street - Liverpool

I never really know what to make of this place, based in the heart of the University quarter you would expect to find it full of students... but it's not. The décor is nice, very light and airy with a lot of bare wood, nothing too in your face! It is a very popular restaurant in Liverpool, which is an accomplishment in itself now that there is a huge variety of restaurants with the opening of Liverpool ONE. The Bistro and Bar downstairs is pretty good, there is a 3 course meal and a bottle of wine menu for £20 per person which is great if you don't fancy splashing out. The restaurant upstairs is always buzzing due to how busy it is although as a customer you would never know the waiting staff were rushed off their feet as they are always very attentive. You can expect to pay around £30 40 for 2 courses and a drink. There is also a private dining room which can be hired out for free.

Again, as I 've said time and time again, Hope Street is full of restaurants, good ones too. Here 's yet another! What actually looks like a townhouse... well, was at some point a townhouse, we must assume. This instantly gives the place a marvellously homely feel and the theme continues with welcoming and attentive but also very humble service, which I must say I had to give top marks to. You really couldn 't fault it. Don 't be scared by the prices. Just consider London, and 60 Hope Street seems positively bargainful in comparison. The daily menu special offers three courses for just under £20, it just means you 're limited somewhat. They do some amazingly lovely retro food here, much as I find the phrase 'retro food ' odd unless it 's in the context of someone spreading peanut butter into a stick of celery on That 70s Show (it 's nice, that is. Celery 's also nice spread with Philadelphia. Free tip for you there). Nope, what I mean is oysters, prawn cocktail, even baked Alaska which I couldn 't resist. It 's food done very well, with a touch of flair and a dash of the nouveau cuisine about it. Reductions, sauces, jus, that kind of thing. Everything was fresh and delicious and there were no complaints from me about... well, anything really. They 've definitely made the most of the space and kept the design simple and pleasant, and as an occasional treat I 'd say this is worthy of a visit or two.

My first thoughts when I came across this place was.......Surely they could have thought up a name for this restaurant, no??? I mean come on.....how unoriginal can you get!!! 60 hope street??? Really???? Can you imagine if Alma de cuba was called Seel street or San Carlo 's in manchester, 40 King street ???? Wasn 't there a loved one, or something else the owner was fond of? Anywho, once you get past the name I mean what is in a name I suppose, the place is A-ok. With its Georgian entrance the restaurant, encompasses a warm and welcoming atmosphere, the decor is somewhat simplistic compared to other options in the area however the food rules the roast in my book in a restaurant, and here...just like the place itself, it is A-ok. The A la carte menu is accompanied by a daily changing special menu, an idea which I quite like. The food is cooked using local produce which is always a good sign and thus the menu changes with the seasons. Being near the water naturally you expect seafood and hey presto the menu offers a variety of fish dishes. If you have room left in the tank for a dessert and aren 't too bothered about teh calories you can always go for teh signature dish 'Deep Fried Jam Sandwich with Carnation Milk Ice Cream '. I did, and must say it was niceeeeeeeeeeee oh yayyy.

This fabulous fine dining venue is just one more symbol of hope in the rapidly regenerating road which has in recent years developed from assorted faded Georgian listed buildings to a really vibrant and high quality series of food businesses which serve both theatre and concert goers as well as those simply seeking the very best food that Liverpool has to offer. The restaurant has an upper fine dining area and also a basement bistro. The bistro is my favourite as if you have the whole evening or at liberty to a leisurely lunch you can first go and repose on a Chesterfield in the lounge for as long as you can stand the luxury before moving through to your seat in the dining area this for me is perfect for those long and deep conversations you will Have with your beloved and or your immediate kith and kin. If you are business minded 60 Hope Street is equally suited to entertaining for potential clients your new business partners cannot fail to be impressed cannot fail to be impressed in these surroundings which may well suited to the context, and dare I say, if the seal on the beginnings of good business relationship.

I visited 60 hope street a few years back with my boyfriend and another couple. It's a nice place for a quiet meal, the decor and atmosphere were nice. The food however not so nice. I am a vegetarian and I am sick of the only thing on the menu suitable for myself being a cheese and mushroom dish in restaurants like this! I hate both! I don't know why restaurants think that's all vegetarians eat. Maybe they have changed the menu since then but I have no intention of going back to find out. My boyfriend's food was alright, nothing special. Can't really rememeber what my friends had. The best thing was the little choc's they give you with the bill and that's what entitled them to 2 stars and not 1!