Winner of the 2009
Best Small Restaurant
for second successive year!

Locally brewed ales, classic wine styles, bar specials and cocktails

The bar at Joseph Benjamin is open to diners and non-diners and is open all day.
You are very welcome to eat in the bar – either at a high stool at the bar counter or at one of the tables around it.

Beer

We always have a barrel of one of the many fantastic locally brewed real ales on hand-pull as well as Warsteiner lager on draught.

Woodlands Brewing Company in Nantwich supply the vast majority of our real ale. They produce a diverse and multi-award-winning range of beers and are brilliantly accommodating and knowledgeable. Having supplied us with their full range of bottle conditioned ales since 2006, we were very pleased to seek their help and advice in installing their barrels in the cellar and hand-pump on the bar of our new restaurant space in November 2009.

We also work closely with Weetwood Ales in Willington near Tarporley, whose bottles of Eastgate Ale are a permanent fixture. Located a stone’s throw from our parents house in Oscroft, a barrel of said ale has also fuelled numerous family parties and Christmas’s over the years.

Wine

We are proud of a carefully chosen wine list. As with our food menus, the wine list evolves regularly and we enjoy offering great examples of classic wine styles from all over the world.

The wine list is designed to be easily accessible and we keep it short and sweet. There’s plenty of cracking wine to choose from under £30 and also some fantastic bargains if you like to venture further down the list. We don’t do silly mark-ups – we want you to come back. Small cash margins mean, in effect, that the more you spend the better value you get.

We print the wine list ourselves and are therefore happy to change it regularly. This enables us to be more flexible, reacting to good deals, taking smaller batches and passing on great value, interesting wines to our customers.

Please ask about take-out wine prices at any time. The full wine list and lots of other interesting bottles are available from the deli at off-licence prices. The range just keeps growing!

Any chance of a Martini?

We are not a cocktail bar, but we do like cocktails and regularly offer a simple classic as a ‘bar special’. If there is a drink that you fancy, feel free to ask us for it. If we’ve got the ingredients and the time, we’ll happily oblige.