Bars in Liverpool
The best cocktail bars, pubs and drinking holes in the city
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Baltic Social; Another Sparkle In The Ever Growing Baltic Triangle
Update August 2022: The Baltic Social is now permanently closed. Do you like shiny, glitzy places? Do you like indifferent service from po-faced staff? Do you like overpriced food that’s style over substance? Yes? Well, you go find somewhere like that, go on, and leave the rest of us to enjoy the lovely Baltic Social. You really wouldn’t like it… Where Elevator used to be, on Parliament Street it’s a great space with stripped wooden…
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Berry & Rye; A Bar Worth Discovering
Old fashioned vintage bars are hard to come across these days. It’s very rare that we find ourselves sitting in a dim-lit room with men in suits and hats drinking gin and smoking cigars and women in classy gorgeous dresses sipping wine, like something from a 60’s movie. So have you come across any bars like that lately? Settled right at the top of Bold Street is an American styled bar known as Berry &…
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The Attic; Parr Street
Previously the 3345 bar, named after its address on Parr Street, The Attic is a bar with some serious class. The seemingly never ending set of stairs may drain you but once beaten you’re treated to an experience akin to walking into a musician’s house in the middle of a drunken night in. The lights are dim, every surface a dark shade of sexy. The walls exhibit pictures of past musicians, each of which acting…
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Smugglers Cove; Review
Smugglers Cove is now The Botanist. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Some PR people have been very busy promoting Smuggler’s Cove since its opening; very busy indeed. The buzz has been inescapable and Twitter is stuffed with people marvelling at the themed decor, posting instagrammed photos of the cocktails and proclaiming the food ‘the best meal I’ve ever had’. So it would have been rude not to check it out. I went…
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Some Place Absinthe Bar
I’ve been told that absinthe was the drink of choice for famous writers Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allen Poe. Well I can only imagine there was less selection available for them back then. I had my first glass of absinthe last week in some place in Liverpool, an experience akin to put your taste buds in a blender made of aniseed. The self-confessed “Absinthe Bar” is actually called Some Place and it certainly doesn’t make…
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Pi Bar Food Review
It’s a Saturday afternoon, the match is on and I am in need of some lunch (dinner to us scousers), but I want to avoid the raucous football-loving crowd. So where do I end up I hear you say? Well, “Pi” on Rose Lane of course! I am told that this place has recently extended next door to double its size, so it was a very good indicator of its popularity and I was eager…
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Gallaghers Pub & Barbers Review: Unique Wirral Pub is Cut Above The Rest
Is it a pub? Is it a barbers? Before you pull out your hair and throw down your ale, fret not: it’s both. Gallagher’s Pub & Barbers, Birkenhead has pulled off the unthinkable and the venture is rapidly growing, not only as one of Wirral’s favourite watering holes, but as a popular tourist destination. It is the brainchild and successful creation of landlord and landlady (and hairdressing entrepreneurs) Frank and Sue Gallagher who bought the…
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Motel Bar
Motel Bar is the kind of place one doesn’t simply visit. Motel is, in fact, the kind of place that you experience. The venue is decorated with graphic novel style art work on the walls, as well as neon signs, metal caging, chairs that don’t match and a collection of other things you wouldn’t expect to find in a bar. The neon signs, sporting quotes and slogans, add a layer of fluorescent light, that add to…
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81 Ltd Bar – A Little-Known Bar on a Well-Known Street
I received the code for 81 Ltd on Saturday afternoon, a few hours before my visit. I knew as soon as I got the text, this place was going to be cool. Lying in the heart of Liverpool’s nightlife scene, it’s easily one of the most chic places around. To reach the bar, we walked up a set of shady stairs to the forbidden door and typed in our code. On opening the door, there…
