Cheers to the Northwich bar serving the best cocktails in Mid Cheshire

With seven owners and one bar manager, the award-winning Market Street venue has a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise that has contributed to its success over the past two years.

The wine bar offers a relaxing space for customers to enjoy a wide range of draught and bottled beers and top quality wines as well as locally roasted coffee and an unrivalled collection of teas – and also award-winning cocktails!

Passion fruit martinis are available on the new sharing cocktail benches

Each week, we will be searching for the best Mid Cheshire has to offer in different categories.

Oliver Gibney Hairdressing took the first Best of 2023 title – Best for Hair in Mid Cheshire – and Ka Pie is officially Best for Pies with Samantha Dean Nails and Makeup being crowned Best for Nails and The Red Lion in Little Budworth is Best for Roast Dinner.

Voting for Mid Cheshire’s Best for Breakfast is currently taking place and we’re also looking for nominations in our latest search - Best for Fitness.

Next up was cocktails and as we raised a glass to the best eight cocktail places in Mid Cheshire, Grape and Bean beat off some tough competition to take the title.

The Grape and Bean on Market Street in Northwich

The venue is owned by James Wilmington, Ian Barstow, Peter Leigh, Craig Walker, Richard Caldwell-Hoe, Peter Price and Carl Gabbott with Janine Siddall employed as the bar manager.

As a team, they’re keen to see Northwich grow into a destination town and when the opportunity came up to open a new business they knew they couldn’t say no.

The seven men met and became friends at Northwich Round Table, getting involved in charitable events in the town with a #domore motto, and it was this that drove them forward in their business venture.

Fancy a cocktail in the sunshine this weekend?

Janine said: “At Grape and Bean we have the finest cocktails in Northwich.

“We have regular live music and a ranger of popular entertainment events like cheese and wine evenings and ukulele club.

“It’s a relaxed atmosphere and the customers are at the forefront of everything we do.”

But what do the customers think about Grape and Bean? Why did they think the venue should win Best for Cocktails 2023?

One very happy customer said The Grape and Bean serves “by far the best cocktails in Northwich” and another said that “they have a large choice of cocktails that are all made fresh and don’t come from at tin.”

They added: “Made to perfection.”

Janine Siddall, general manager at Grape and Bean

Grape and Bean serves classic cocktails like espresso martinis, pina coladas and Mai Thais and their new summer menu with include a bubblegum martini, cherry blossom bliss and a raspberry Tom Collins.

Everyone at Grape and Bean team was excited to hear that they’d made the award shortlist and they were grateful for all the nominations.

Janine said: “We are so proud to have won Best for Cocktails and it’s brilliant that so many people think so highly of our cocktails in our small corner of Northwich.

“We’d like to thank each and every person who took the time to nominate us and then for us – it really means the world to a small business and we look forward to welcoming new customers – and our old ones and regulars - to Grape and Bean.”

For more details go to facebook.com/GrapeandBean.Northwich

Inside the award-winning bar