Located on Paradise Street, by the harbour, Cote Brasserie Liverpool isn’t offering an experience too far away from paradise. The menu is the work of true Francophiles, with Gallic classics top to bottom. It prides itself on its relaxed, friendly, but sophisticated atmosphere that allows you to sink into the leather bench and focus on the company you’re in, and the food you’re eating.
Steaks are a real speciality at Cote Brasserie Liverpool, a ten-ounce ribeye with chips starts the listings off, then an appetizing six-ounce fillet steak, both of which are from grass-fed, 30-day aged cattle, prepared in the restaurant’s own butchery. Cote Brasserie Liverpool is renowned for its steak frites, served pink with garlic butter. However, the star of the show has to be the cote de boeuf: a 22-ounce steak, dry aged on the bone for 42 days, sourced from grass-fed Ribble Valley bovine, served with a truffle hollandaise and a choice of two sides.
Lighter meal choices are available, a choice of salads that includes the famous French tuna nicoise, which the restaurant has updated for modern ‘audiences’ with the lever introduction of sesame seed. Utilising the quality of British fish, Cote Brasserie Liverpool serve monkfish a la piperade, using Cornish monkfish, but French bacon – for the chef has to include French ingredients to feel true to their philosophy – and sauteed peppers. These are just some examples of the filling, satisfying, but delicately made meals that are so typical of the French cuisine Cote Brasserie Liverpool specialises in.
Whether you’ve just been to the shops, fancied a wander down to the harbour, or were just exploring Liverpool’s One development, Cote Brasserie Liverpool offers reprise, escape, and some very good traditional French cooking. This is not a restaurant that you simply walk past without wishing you’d gone inside.