Ellesmere, French Restaurant Guide

“Having relocated from the original site on the Wirral to rural Shropshire”, Marc Wilkinson “greets, cooks, explains and serves a range of incredible dishes in his new venue near Oswestry”: part of his home (with the address provided on booking) and now more in the format of a chef’s table experience than during his days in Oxton. “Marc is a consummate professional and never fails to impress” with his £130 per person tasting menu (with bookings released on the 1st of each month): “a truly unique dining experience unlike any other”. As yet he is unlicensed, so you can BYO! – an incredible boon with a meal of this quality.

2023 Review: Chef-patron Mark Sebastian & Michelle Fisher’s “newly decorated restaurant-with-rooms only gets better” – after more than three decades – “and is always full”, a tribute to the “high standard of its French-influenced food”. Set in three seventeenth-century cottages knocked together, it’s a “quiet place to satisfy the foodie in you”.

This appealing indie café/restaurant, in a quiet side street, has a modish industrial-style interior, while the open kitchen turns out seasonal eats spanning small plates, steaks and lots of snackable ‘things on toast’.