Another restaurant, with a lady chef, and a blueprint for the last review.
Emma Wombwell has been running the Cowshed restaurant at The Wheatsheaf for a number of years, and has won the Wirral chef of the year for two consecutive years 2008 and 2009. I am sure she would have won for further years but was not selected as a participating restaurant once the target chefs were selected by public vote.
Our latest visit was an opportunity to take my ageing mother and our oldest son for a bit of tucker, on a rare opportunity to get them both together. My mother has recently moved to the Wirral from Plymouth, and our son was up North to see her new flat and enjoy a run ashore at the Matthew Street festival.
We booked an early time, which was a shrewd move as there was a 18th and 21st birthday booked in for later in the evening. All the food was excellent, and included belly pork infused with black pudding as an interesting starter, and Gurnard and Sea Bass for main courses. The side dishes were very well presented and the onion rings were very tasty.
There was a two course set price menu which was reasonably priced at £15.95, although the portions did reflect this, in comparison to the portion size of the dishes selected from the a la carte. We had no wine on this occasion as the night was wild and driving home was going to be a challenge as it was!!
The waitresses were very attentive and tried hard to meet all the requirements of the punters, so all in all a very enjoyable evening.
So, if Claire Lara at the Riverhill needs any template for her new venture, she could do a lot worse than have a chat with Emma.
