The best spots for a cheeseboard in Liverpool

This Spanish eatery founded and owned by Peter and Elaine Kinsella, began life at the North West Food Festivals. Now it’s a multi-award winning deli, restaurant and bar, twice winner of the Good Food Guide’s North West Restaurant of the Year. Focussing on Catalan food, it’s found in a fully accessible building, at Liverpool One. Or for those in the vicinity of the Royal Albert Dock, there’s Lunyalita, Lunya’s little sister venue.

Book a table and order the artisan cheese platter, consisting of the chef’s choice of three award-winning Spanish cheeses and Catalan fruit, chosen to complement the flavours. Or if you want a smaller plate, get the manchego and membrillo (a ewe’s milk cheese from Spain) with quince jelly, for £8.95. A further cheeseboard can be spotted on the dessert menu; this offers your choice of a cheese platter of one, two or three kinds of cheese from the deli (there are around 40 on display from which to pick, so you might be a while trying to decide).

British cheese takes centre stage on the cheeseboard at The Ship, a cosy and traditional 19th-century coastal inn. The platter comes garnished with fresh celery, grapes, crunchy toasted sourdough, sweet balsamic onions and spiced beetroot chutney. You can also get a Ploughman’s as your main meal — that classic but lesser-found retro pub dish with cheddar at its heart. The Ship also offers private wine tastings for groups of two to 30; priced at £30 per person, these comprise five glasses of wine and an accompanying cheese and charcuterie board. Take a seat beside the open fire to enjoy your fromage with a big helping of hygge, or on a sunny day, enjoy far-reaching views across the adjacent Dee Estuary with a table on the first-floor sun deck. 

This two AA rosette restaurant is headed up by Executive Head Chef Mike Kenyon, who loves to bring seasonal and local ingredients to the fore. Sample the North West’s best farm produce, with a selection of regional cheeses. This cheeseboard is found on the bar menu and comes with celery, fig chutney, artisan crackers and grapes. A three-cheese board is £10, a five cheese is £15 and it’s £20 for seven. This is perfect with a glass of Krohn Vintage Port or one of the fine wines found on The London Carriage Works’ extensive drinks menu. 

Set in the Georgian Quarter, this unique restaurant is housed in the lantern room of a Victorian ‘Home for Destitute Children’ dating back to 1888. Depending on which menu you choose, you’ll tuck into your cheeses in either the main dining room, the Champagne cellar bar, or The Moriarty Room, a private wine-tasting space that was named in homage to Chef Askew’s mother’s love of Sherlock Holmes.

The Cellars’ Light Bites Menu offers a sharing platter Chef’s selection of British artisan cheeses and charcuterie with Art School bread, oak smoked raw milk butter, dipping oil and aged balsamic. While the more formal Pescatarian and Vegetarian Excellence menus (served in the dining room) present an optional course of British cheese served with quince, Peter Jones truffle-scented Liverpuddlian honey and Eccles cake. 

Cheese with a view? This family-run establishment is set in a 40-storey building, the tallest in the city and 45th highest in the UK. So you’ll enjoy a bird’s eye view of Liverpool’s landmarks as you dine. Sunday’s lunch menu (served from 12 pm to 8 pm), the standard lunch menu (12 pm to 2:30 pm Tuesday to Saturday) and the Prix Fixe (noon to 2:30 pm and 6 pm to 9:30 pm, Tuesday to Saturday) finishes with a selection of British cheeses, alongside spicy fennel and celery chutney, grapes, candied walnuts, ginger sponge and sourdough crackers. Or you can get a cheese platter in the cocktail lounge, accompanied by a glass of wine from a diverse range of producing regions, including Sussex and Lebanon.