O’Este

Restaurant with excellent conservatory main dining area and cosy bar.
Good for groups. Food mid priced. Friendly staff. Some special offer deals early in the week (Monday 2 for 1) are great value for money. Tapas also features, but can be more variable, with some dishes being held in the kitchen waiting rather than being served immediately each is ready. So I would go for the main menu.

If there’s one type of cuisine/​restaurant that you could definitely call the ‘flavour of the month’ (no pun intended), then it’s tapas. It used to be that tapas bars were fairly rare but these days they’re everywhere, popping up in many towns close to me (although not in Formby quite yet) and O’Este is Ormskirk’s offering.
Situated slightly away from the main village area, O’Este offers its diners a fine selection of tapas as well as main meals and a table d’hote menu offering 2 courses for thirteen pounds or 3 courses for seventeen pounds.
The tapas menu is quite varied and slightly more unusual and sophisticated than your usual tapas bar, offering sardines, mussels and swordfish alongside the usual favourites like chorizo and patatas bravas, all of which are fairly reasonably priced. The a la carte menu has a modest selection of dishes on it, including hanging beef and pork skewers as well as roast monkfish. This menu is a bit more expensive but all the dishes are well-​cooked and delicious.
The restaurant itself is bright and comfortable and the waiting on staff are both friendly and attentive at all times, ensuring any visit to O’Este is an enjoyable one.