Porta Chester takes over

A pretty big announcement from Ben & Joe: Building on the ongoing popularity of our little tapas bar, Porta, we are making the leap to convert our entire Chester operation – Porta & Joseph Benjamin – in to one single larger Porta Tapas Bar. The new expanded restaurant will completely embrace the informal, buzzing atmosphere and top-quality

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Our Paella

We’re really proud of the superb paella that has become a fixture of our menu. Our paella are traditional in style and a speciality of our Valencian head chef Jose Garzón. Over the years we’ve loved listening to Jose evangelise on the subject of paella. It’s so inspiring when someone has that much passion and knowledge. We

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JB’s reopening with brand new menu

We’re very happy to announce that we’ll be reopening JB’s this Saturday 4th July. Online bookings are now open. Click here to book. Quite a few changes; new opening hours and new menu. Other details will follow (see social media), but it’s actually been quite exciting working on this new iteration. Honestly, we can’t wait

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Joseph Benjamin launches ‘JB at Home’

Hi all, We hope you are all well and keeping safe. We’ve missed you! Do you think it’s time we fired up the stoves, woke a few bottles from their cellar slumber and threw open the doors? Well we do! Things will be a little different for the foreseeable future, but bear with us as

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Additional measures to keep us all healthy

We take the wellbeing of our customers and staff extremely seriously. In light of the ongoing (Covid-19) Coronavirus pandemic, we wanted to let you know about additional safety measures in place at the restaurants. As usual, the restaurant will be deep cleaned every day. In addition, we are now cleaning and sanitising door handles, handrails,

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