Riviera - WIRRAL

The Riviera is the Restaurant within the Hillpark Hotel. This hotel is a beautiful house set in the most spectacular gardens and parkland. The menu was a nice balance of British and European. We started with a small pasta and my Partner having warm prawns. Our main course was a sharing course of sea bream. We hadn’t experienced this concept of sharing a main course before. This meant that the cost overall was very reasonable. There was a good sweet menu. Also a very wide ranging wine selection. We were able to congratulate the Chef afterwards. He had taken over just a week before. His expertise and enthusiasm was so evident. The service was very attentive and friendly. Will definitely go back to sample his ideas for future menus. It was altogether a lovely experience

I think our short notice booking through OpenTable threw them by surprise so it took a while to get us seated, also didn't help that we changed our mind about whether to dine outside. Having said that the amount of time we spent waiting, to be seated and to get our food was really long, thankfully the restaurant is in a beautiful building but I imagine less patient customers would kick off. Staff were nice though. And the venison carpaccio small plate was great

Food was excellent, as was the service value, but it took hour and mins since arriving to be served our food. This was too long, since we had a fortunately very wellbehaved year old with us

Aesthetic venue however let down by the appalling service. The table next to us left due to the poor service

We got married at Hillbark years ago and had heard about Riviera so wanted to give it a try.. I'm not one for being negative but i felt the Food didn't live up to the setting HIllbark brand at all. The cellar was a fantastic space, however, the Food disappointed us on so many levels just didn't have that special factor very mediocre for the venue price.. We went for the Chefs choice tapas and felt it was very piecemeal in it's serving and content. No vegetables, duck was very salty, they gave us a double beef portion even though one of our guests had said they don't eat beef and the presentation was literally just beef or fish on a plate with a small token of chips... I'd love to go to Hallbark again as the building is beautiful, but with food like that i'm afraid we wont be going back