The Wycliffe - Stockport

Good evening. The food was extraordinary. The Porterhouse Steak was cooked exactly as we all wanted. The service was one of the best we had recently.

I've eaten here and the service and the food are always impeccable. Would definitely recommend.

Nice food and service. Even my friend brought a cake with candle because they overheard it was his birthday. Friendly staff and really good atmosphere.

Very professional and thoughtful service as ever, and this time we had roast dinner from the set menu, which was lovely. Rest of family greatly enjoyed their puds I didn't have one. Ambience waiters seemed a bit rushed, as might be expected for Fathers' Day Sunday lunchtime, decor is odd and old fashioned but I like that is somehow reassuring, I'd much rather they invested in food and staff than fancy interiors.

The staff were absolutely lovely, especially the maitre d', who gave us a potted history of the venue and told us about the afternoon teas and other special deals. The food was beautifully prepared and stylishly presented, but the underlying quality of ingredients stopped our meals from tasting outstanding. The lamb was tasty and well received, but the pork and chicken both lacked flavour, like average supermarket meat cooked with great skill, certainly, but it made us feel the price tag was a bit too much. With better ingredients, the cost would have felt good value for the skill that had obviously gone into the prep. The smoking mushroom presentation was fun but my friend said the mushrooms themselves tasted too much like ash and not enough like the culinary smoked flavour he was expecting. Would certainly go back but would choose a set menu rather than a la carte if we'd done this first, I think it would've felt like good value.