Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Chester from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Chester
Covino and Arkle have exceptional wine programs in Chester city centre. Upstairs at the Grill in City Centre has an extensive wine list and a Star Wine List White Star.
Covino is an intimate wine-led bistro in Chester city centre with a daily-changing small-plates menu and over 150 wines by the glass. It holds a Michelin Plate and a Star Wine List award for 2026.
Arkle is a tasting-menu restaurant inside The Chester Grosvenor in Chester city centre. It serves modern British cuisine in a 40-seat room, with an exceptional sommelier-led wine program, wine pairings and a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Upstairs at the Grill is a New York-style steakhouse in City Centre serving dry-aged steaks a la carte, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026 and a Star Wine List White Star.
Chester has compact neighbourhood restaurants serving modern British bistro food and small plates. Stile Napoletano holds international recognition from 50 Top Pizza Europe and 50 Top Pizza World.
Sticky Walnut in Hoole is a modern British bistro in Gary Usher's Elite Bistros group, with a compact room and open sightlines to the kitchen. Almost everything on its wine list is available by the glass. It holds a Good rating from The Good Food Guide for 2025.
Stile Napoletano is a Neapolitan pizza restaurant in City Centre, where Giacomo Guido uses slow-fermented dough and Italian-sourced ingredients. It serves an a la carte menu with a wine list and holds 50 Top Pizza Europe and 50 Top Pizza World recognition for 2026.
Noted is Andrew Sheridan's intimate six-table restaurant in City Centre, serving shareable modern British plates with international flavours. The kitchen sources regionally, and the restaurant has a wine list and a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Chester city centre has the exceptional wine programs in our guide, at Covino and Arkle. Upstairs at the Grill in City Centre has an extensive wine list and a Star Wine List White Star. Sticky Walnut in Hoole has almost everything on its wine list available by the glass.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide to Chester. Michelin Plate awards for 2026 are held by Covino, Arkle, Upstairs at the Grill, Noted and The Jolly Gardeners in Boughton.
Arkle in Chester city centre serves a modern British tasting menu inside The Chester Grosvenor. The restaurant has 40 seats, an exceptional sommelier-led wine program and wine pairings. It holds a Michelin Plate for 2026.
Covino and Arkle have exceptional wine programs in our guide. Covino in Chester city centre offers natural wine and over 150 wines by the glass. Arkle in Chester city centre has a sommelier-led wine program and wine pairings. Upstairs at the Grill in City Centre has an extensive wine list and a Star Wine List White Star.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Chester, United Kingdom
On Watergate Street, one of Chester's most historically layered thoroughfares, Stile Napoletano has been making a quiet case for serious Neapolitan pizza since 2018. Chef Giacomo Guido leads an artisanal operation where dough craft and ingredient sourcing are the editorial argument, not the décor. In a city whose dining scene skews toward British and European fine dining, this is a different register entirely.
Chester, United Kingdom
A Michelin Plate wine bar on Northgate Street, Covino runs a daily-changing small-plates menu built around seasonal ingredients and simplicity. The wine shelves carry over 150 bottles, prices chalked directly on the glass, and the knowledgeable team guide selection in place of a printed list. Opinionated About Dining has recommended it for casual European dining since 2023.
Chester, United Kingdom
Upstairs at the Grill brings the New York steakhouse template to Chester's medieval Watergate Street, anchoring its menu around 5-week dry-aged Welsh beef and rare-breed cuts sourced internationally. A Star Wine List White Star recipient and consecutive Michelin Plate holder (2024 and 2025), it occupies a position in Chester's dining scene that no other venue in the city directly replicates. For serious meat and wine, this is the address.
Chester, United Kingdom
Inside The Chester Grosvenor's Grade II listed walls on Eastgate Street, Arkle brings a classically formal setting to modern British cooking with serious ingredient credentials. The menu draws on named British producers, from Isle of Wight tomatoes to Herdwick hogget, and has held Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025. An evening here pairs naturally with drinks in the hotel's cocktail lounge.
Chester, United Kingdom
Noted sits on Bridge Street in Chester's walled Roman centre, part of a small multi-site operation led by a chef-restaurateur working across Cheshire. The kitchen sources regionally and trades on proximity to the Wirral coast and Cheshire dairy producers. Price sits in the mid-market band; the format is compact, neighbourhood-casual, and aimed at diners who value ingredient clarity over extended tasting-menu theatrics.
Chester, United Kingdom
On the Eastgate Rows in the heart of Chester, Shrub has been making a case for plant-based cooking since 2020. The menu draws on Mediterranean structure and east Asian seasoning, served in a relaxed room of sustainable wood and rattan. Wines by the glass from £6.50 and a Sunday roast built around oyster mushroom Wellington round out a programme that takes the format seriously.
Chester, United Kingdom
Sticky Walnut in Chester's Hoole suburb anchors Gary Usher's Elite Bistro group with seasonal Modern European cooking, a fixed-price menu starting at £20 for three courses, and an Opinionated About Dining ranking that has climbed steadily since 2023. The room is compact and convivial, with dark walls, open sightlines to the kitchen, and a wine list where almost everything is available by the glass from £6.50.
Chester, United Kingdom
The Jolly Gardeners sits a short walk from Chester's city centre on Christleton Road, operating as a neighbourhood pub with a focus on locally sourced ingredients. The kitchen works with Cheshire producers and suppliers to build a menu that reflects the region's agricultural calendar and traditional pub hospitality.
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Chester, United Kingdom
Selected in the Michelin Hotels guide 2025, Hotel Indigo Chester occupies a position on Grosvenor Park Road where Roman city walls and Victorian architecture set the visual register for the stay. The brand's design-led approach translates the host city's layered history into a physical environment, placing it within Chester's small tier of hotels where aesthetic identity does real work alongside location.
Chester, United Kingdom
The Chester Grosvenor occupies a prime position on Eastgate Street in the heart of Chester's medieval city centre, earning 97 points in the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking. The property sits within one of England's most historically layered cities, where Roman walls and Georgian architecture form the backdrop for one of the northwest's most formally recognised hotel dining programmes.
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