Food and Drink in Liverpool
Liverpool’s food and drink scene. The best bars, restaurants and pop up food events
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Celebrate World Gin Day At The Botanical Garden This Saturday 10th June
Now fully in bloom, The Botanical Garden in Liverpool is the city’s most idyllic hideaway, nestled in the backstreets of the Baltic Triangle in the shadow of the Anglican Cathedral. There’s a special day taking place there on Saturday 10th June, as The Botanical Garden celebrates World Gin Day – if ever there were two concepts more suitable together, it is these – featuring a day and night of education and entertainment. Throughout the day…
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Titanic Hotel’s Stanley Bar & Grill Restaurant Review
When the Executive Chef has a past that spans the QE2, Sydney Olympics, Chester Grosvenor and the DoubleTree in Chester you can pretty much guarantee that the food is going to be good. And we were not disappointed by the new summer menu at Stanley’s Bar & Grill at the Titanic Hotel. With everything from Fish and Chips to duck breast, pork chops and scallops there’s something for all tastes. The hotel itself is luxury…
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Chef Gary Usher Smashes UK’s Largest Ever Kickstarter Campaign For A UK Restaurant – Wreckfish Liverpool Is Coming!
Chef owner, Gary Usher, launched an ambitious £200k Kickstarter campaign on 2nd May to open a 100-cover restaurant in the Ropewalks area of Liverpool city centre. With high profile and humbling support from the likes of Tom Kerridge, Simon Rimmer and several other Michelin star chefs, Usher’s campaign reached the £200k goal with 45 hours to go, from the support of 1,441 backers and counting. The record-breaking £200k crowdfunding campaign is the largest ever amount…
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Pier Head Village Announces Programme For This Summer’s Village Festival
Pier Head Village announces its programme of entertainment in the run up to the official opening on 30th June. The festival takes over Liverpool’s iconic waterfront next month with an action-packed, summer-long programme combining a wide range of enticing offers from thrills to music and art to culture with all things in between, and all on the most iconic waterfront in Europe. The Pier Head Village is Liverpool’s newest and most ambitious leisure attraction and will…
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New Liverpool Bar YARD Now Open In The Baltic Triangle
YARD – Liverpool’s newest outdoor bar, opened it’s doors on Friday. Situated in the heart of the Baltic Triangle, next to District, YARD is an intimate and vibrant space, offering a fine selection of drink, music, and soon-to-be, food (with ItalFresh bringing back their Thursday night pop-up from 8th June). Using a 15ft shipping container as the bar and scaffolding boards as tables, YARD truly embraces and celebrates its industrial surroundings. YARD will continue the good vibes over the Bank Holiday…
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LIV Food Market Celebrates Vegan & Plant Based Lifestyles This Sunday
This bank holiday Sunday, LIV Food Market is holding a Plant Based Power Celebration in their cultural home of Radiant House on Bold Street. Promoting the hugely popular plant based diets, LIV will celebrate the power of plants and the many different benefits that this diet and lifestyle comes with. With an array of delicious free samples for customers and locals to try and taste, including lots of their freshly baked vegan cakes, cheeses and…
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The Countdown Is On For The First Ever New Brighton Seaside Festival
With the end of May coming swiftly over the horizon, the countdown is now on for a big, exciting attraction to sail into the shores of New Brighton. There’s just over a week to go until the first ever New Brighton Seaside Festival will make a huge splash – transforming the town into one huge seaside extravaganza like no other. Coming to the Wirral resort this Spring Bank Holiday, the festival brings three days of seaside fun for everyone! The festival…
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The City’s Most Unusual Dining Experience Is Back – The FINCA Paladar
The city’s most unusual dining experience is back – and this time it’s going al fresco. The FINCA Paladar will be returning and taking place on Wednesday 24 May in the garden of Greenland Street venue, Constellations, where diners will be treated to an unique three-course menu of Cuban dishes. FINCA will be using the outdoor, intimate dinner to give diners a real experience of Cuban food. The Paladar is a nod to the restaurant’s Cuban roots as…
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51 Mill Lane Opens Its Doors In The Heart of West Derby Village
West Derby Village’s newest dining addition has officially opened its doors. With the address as its namesake, 51 Mill Lane’s Bar, Kitchen & Garden is serving up a selection of small plates inspired by cuisines from across the globe alongside a range of cocktails, wines and pale ales. Following a five-figure sum investment, the eatery is home to laid-back dining areas, a bustling bar and an intimate garden space. Managing Director at 51 Mill Lane Kate…
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Castle Street Townhouse Restaurant Review
What makes a restaurant really successful depends on a variety of factors, which although seemingly disparate, if they do not mesh together detracts against the aim of the culinary exercise. These are, in no particular order, the quality of the food and drink, the environment, and the staff. All these elements need to work together almost symbiotically to achieve a great experience for the customer. And by this yardstick, the Castle Street Townhouse scores extremely…
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Chef & Restaurant Owner Aiming For Crowdfunder Success With New Campaign
Local chef Gary Usher is looking to raise funds for his latest restaurant venture, Wreckfish, in Liverpool. Cutting his teeth at the Michelin starred Chester Grosvenor, followed by time spent at Chapter One, Chez Bruce, York & Albany and Jamie’s Italian, Gary Usher is no stranger to hard work. Opening Sticky Walnut in Hoole, Chester, back in 2011 on a shoestring budget, he now owns two additional restaurants with a potential fourth in the pipeline.…
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Castle St Townhouse Welcomes New General Manager As Part of Its Evolved Dining Destination Concept
Castle St Townhouse has welcomed a new General Manager to head its expanding team. Robert Andrew Scott, 37, joins the all day, night and drinking destination following an impressive background in a variety of Rosette, Red Star and Michelin Star properties including Hipping Hall, Lower Slaughter Manor and Manor House Castle Combe. As part of ongoing developments, Castle St Townhouse has also unveiled an eclectic new dinner concept to add to its holistic dining options…
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West 34 Restaurant Review
Unfortunately, West 34 is now permanently closed. Last week, West 34 welcomed various guests to try out their brand new Seafood menu. The restaurant, situated on Banks Road, offers an eclectic menu looking to entice diners from across the region. Upon entering the restaurant we were greeted with a glass of fizz and asked to take a seat. When we first entered, it was fairly quiet as we had booked for an earlier seating. Although…
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Constellations Garden Is Now Open For The Summer
This year Constellations have a few surprises in store for visitors to the garden. First up there’s Finca, the Cuban street food vendor who will be the first garden food residency to have their own pop-up restaurant. They will be launching on the 21st April. Finca will be serving up their Cuban street food throughout the summer from Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm – late, every week. No matter the weather, they’ve got it covered; the…
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Step Inside LIV, Liverpool’s New Independent Healthy Living Store.
The first of its kind, this brilliant new organic and natural food market, café and health and beauty destination opened yesterday afternoon. With a 10,000 sq ft market area and 50 seat restaurant, LIV is perfectly placed in the heart of the city’s thriving independent food and drink quarter, celebrating the best that Bold Street has to offer. The LIV concept is being launched by Knowsley-based Healthy Food Supplies. Inside, the market area is a must…
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Whitmore & White Food Hall & Wine Merchants; Review
Whitmore & White: where fine wines are on tap and the brownies are as sweet as they look. I’ve been writing for Liverpool Noise about all things arts and food in the city for a good few years now so I think it’s about time I came clean and told you all the truth… I actually live on the Wirral. Yep that’s right, I’m a Wirral ‘ead, a plastic scouser, a wool, whatever you want…
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FINCA To Open Outdoor Restaurant In The Baltic Triangle
Street Food Pioneers to Serve Up at Constellations. The Baltic Triangle is set to get a taste of Cuba this summer when FINCA launches its first full restaurant in an outdoor space at Constellations. Opening on Friday 21 April, the covered al fresco restaurant will serve up FINCA’s signature dishes including cubanos, croquettas and sweet potato fries, as well as many new menu additions. Launched in April last year, the Cuban eatery has already undertaken residencies at…
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New Brighton Seaside Festival Announces Mouthwatering Food & Drink Programme
New Brighton Seaside Festival organisers Orb Events, have announced a little taster of the food and drink programme to whet festival goers’ appetites. The first large scale seaside festival of its kind in the area, the weekender taking place over the Spring Bank Holiday (27-29 May) promises to dish up cocktail of amazing street food, chef demos and fun foodie activities for little chefs to get involved in. There will be a hive of fun foodie activities taking…
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Smithdown Road Festival Announces More Acts For Showcase of Music, Art, Food & Dance
With just a few weeks to go until the annual free Smithdown Road festival, there is no doubting that the program of events has grown considerably this year – and that festival goers are in for a brilliant weekend of music, art, food and dance. Perhaps the biggest news of all is that due to the overwhelming popularity of last year’s festival, there will be a huge outdoor area on the Saturday and Sunday to be held…
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Our Kitchen Restaurant Review
Updated for 2019 – Unfortunately Our Kitchen is now permanently closed. But there’s loads of amazing vegan food places in Liverpool. Have a read of our Best Vegan Places In Liverpool guide. It’s not often that a new vegetarian/vegan restaurant opens in Liverpool so when it happens its big news. The brainchild of former CBBC presenter Tara Maguire, Our Kitchen was designed as an inclusive and holistic venue for people to enjoy organic, nutritious vegetarian…
