Reviews
As one of the North West's premier Restaurants, we are constantly aiming to achieve excellence. Here are a selection of reviews, from people who told us we do!
| Paul - Appleton | 30/08/2011 | We went with friends, from out of the area,on Saturday evening and on our recommendation, having eaten at 101 on several occasions, including Christmas dinner for the last 3 years. Even we were exceptionally impressed with Tom's starter board(which we hadn't had before - an amazing selection)and...... more
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| 23/05/2011 | I spent the evening with friends in Tom at 101. It has been a long time since I have found a venue like it. Great food, great atmosphere and even better entertainment by 'Kayley Rose' thank you for making our evening!!... more |
| 06/02/2011 | Never been to Tom's before, goodness knows why not? It was fab, Sunday roast most beautiful beef enjoyed by children and adults,service excellent wont be leaving it so long to visit again!!... more |
| 07/12/2010 | Although Tom's has been around for a while the quality and service is always excellent. We came in the other week for Sunday lunch and it was delicious! Would certainly return and recommend!... more |
| 02/09/2010 | Ate at 101 last tuesday. Food was excellent, i had the dish of the day which was the lobster and the fact that you get three options of how you want it to be served was excellent from my point of view. The scallops which i had for my starter were cooked to perfection and my friends and i had the...... more |
| 02/09/2010 | Had a meal at 101 on Thursday. The food was second to none. I suggest trying the beef medallions as they are cooked to perfection. The wine menu is extensive and of high quality and my friends and i took full advantage of the buy one get one free on bottles of rose!!! The band that were playing...... more |
| 19/01/2010 | had a fantastic family meal here last week. Cocktails in the bar to start (2for1!), three courses of top quality food, all the family were really impressed. Good service throughout, a thoroughly decent meal out. Top stuff.... more |
| 29/11/2009 | Have been here a number of times and never been disappointed.Good quality food and lots of it.Good ambiance, we particularly like the bar area.... more |
Cheshire Life – July 2008
www.cheshirelife.co.uk
101 delightful things about Tom’s
Guests enjoy a delicious lunch at one of Cheshire’s most stylish restaurants.
Words by Ray King
It is now four years since Tom Rogers opened this stylish, modern neighborhood bar-restaurant in the bustling village of Stockton Heath.
At that time there was only a handful of dining out venues in the area; now there are 13 as a number of national chain operations have piled in, but Tom at 101, catering for a remarkable 1,000 customers a week, has remained ahead of the game.
Experience counts. Managing director, Tom, a former executive chef at hotels across the country and notably the Park Royal in nearby Stretton, long nurtured the ambition to run an independent restaurant.
The partnership has seen Tom at 101 evolve and flourish and they make no apology for being crowd-pleasers with their populist and eclectic menu featuring pasta and risotto dishes to fish and chips and burgers to Lobster Thermidor, served in a vibrant contemporary setting.
Nonetheless, catering for more than 90 guests at Cheshire Life’s July luncheon was still a big ask which head chef Bachara Chaumun kitchen brigade and the service team answered admirably.
We gathered in Tom at 101’s attractive, lofty first-floor bar area for welcoming flutes of Michel Torino Extra Brut – a delightfully balanced, palate-pleasing sparkler from Argentina – and Tom’s famous French Martinis, enjoyed with a selection of olives and appetising hummous dips. Lunch time it may have been, but there was no shortage of entertainment as Frankie Paris, the ‘Master of Swing’, crooned his way, Rat-Pack-style, through his repertoire of standards and Darren O’Neill demonstrated some baffling close-up magic tricks.
Luncheon proper began with a trio of appetisers arranged artistically on the plate. A plump, flavourful scallop baked on the shell with pancetta, marjoram and garlic butter, nestled under a delicate puff pastry lid alongside a meltingly-tender square of pork belly marinated in subtly exotic spices and Tom’s homemade “cuppa” soup, delicious and appropriately served in a mini cup.
The main course was an English spring classic – rack of lamb carved tender and pink with fondant potato, just-so baby seasonal vegetables and Port and redcurrent sauce; simple, traditional, and very enjoyable.
The accompanying wines were at once revelatory and superb; supplied and described by Anthony Hamilton Russell, owner of the vineyards that produced them near South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
Both the 2007 Southern Right Sauvignon Blanc and the 2005 Hamilton Russell Vineyards Pinot Noir were revelatory for their European, rather than New World style. The pungent grassy, herbaceous and gooseberry-fruited white owed much more to the Loire than the Southern Hemisphere and the same was true of the deeply complex, Burgandian-style red, not surprisingly voted the most desirable wine in South Africa in a poll of Wine magazine readers last year.
Pudding brought another trio: Bachara’s deftly-crafted mini choco-mocha mousse, New York-style chocolate brownie and a niftily counter pointing citrus tart – all accompanied by that honeyed but uncloying Californian cutie, 2006 Essensia Orange Muscat; one of very few dessert wines that compliment chocolate so well. Good coffee and moreish handmade truffles rounded off with aplomb and Frankie sang on.