Choosing which restaurant to dine at can be quite a daunting task due to Liverpool having many eateries that offer a variety of cuisines to tantalise your taste buds.
In the 1990s, one city centre restaurant stood out from the rest after a very important visitor paid it a visit. Jenny’s Seafood Restaurant was situated on the Old Ropery off Fenwick Street and offered a variety of “classy-looking” dishes.
Customers had to book their tables in advance due to its popularity, which grew even more in 1997 when the former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, paid Jenny’s a visit in December of that year. Carter, who was President from January 1977 to January 1981, was photographed meeting staff at the restaurant, including the chef at the time, Tom Parry.
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The ECHO has uncovered an old review of Jenny’s Seafood Restaurant by one of our writers shortly after the former President’s visit. Despite the exterior not looking particularly inviting due to being “surrounded by scaffolding” at the time, the reviewer notes that the inside “more than makes up for its less than sparkling exterior”.
The most important part of any restaurant is the menu and the hopefully delicious dishes on offer. Thankfully Jenny’s Seafood Restaurant had plenty for diners to try, with the reviewer noting they “could have looked at [the menu] for hours”.
Unsurprisingly, it was full of fish dishes, but there were also “plenty for the full-time meat eaters”. Jenny’s was certainly the place to go for a special occasion, with some “classy-looking” and “pricey” meals among the selection - how about a seafood platter for two for £72.15?
If you weren’t wanting to splurge, the Table d'Hote menu was £18.50 and included a variety of dishes. The ECHO writer and his partner opted for starters of mussels served in their shells with wine, garlic, herbs, mushrooms, peppers and cream, and a “wonderfully rich and creamy” lobster bisque.
For mains, it was the monkfish in a creamy cucumber sauce and a salmon casserole with monkfish and scallops that caught their attention. The meal came to £56.90 for the four dishes, a bottle of wine and one round of drinks. Aside from the VIP guest earlier that year and the “high-class cuisine”, the reviewer mentions another “special” aspect of visiting Jenny’s - the service.
They said: “It's nice to be appreciated and we got the impression that Jenny's Seafood Restaurant appreciated us as much as we appreciated the meal.” The restaurant has since left seafood behind and is now just a bar offering a variety of drinks. It can be found on Fenwick Street, L2 7NT.
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