Independent Places in Liverpool
Independent bars, restaurants and venues in Liverpool. To help support independent businesses in the city
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Meet The Local Artist Creating These Amazing Greeting Cards
As the creative mind behind Lucy Maggie Designs we caught up with Lucy Spence to find out more about her love of imaginative greetings cards, which you’re going to want to send to everyone you know. “I’ve always enjoyed drawing and creating things, but being a greetings card artist is something I kind of just fell into.” says Lucy, who studied a mix of both English and Illustration at University whilst figuring out what she wanted…
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Top 10 Things To Do In Liverpool In September
September has some brilliant events lined up. Here’s are run down of the top ten things to do. Liverpool Pirate Festival – The annual Liverpool Pirate Festival at the Albert Dock returns with two days of swashbuckling fun on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September. More info here. Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia – This year’s big names include Super Furry Animals, The Horrors, The Wythces, Eagulls, Silver Apples and The Stairs. With four stages of music…
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Slim’s Pork Chop Express Late Night BBQ; Review
So, Saturday night we were out watching the Champions League final and we had not eaten. Dangerous that. Slim’s Pork Chop Express have started a late night menu called the BBQ CLUB – perfect. After seeing Ronaldo score that winning pen I was driven to food, my go to comfort. We arrived just before 10pm; the menu is available 10pm till late Thursday – Saturday and 9 till late through the week. We ordered some drinks – a Beavertown…
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Record Store Day; 16th April 2016
Jacaranda Records, Probe and Dig Vinyl are among the Liverpool stores participating in this year’s Record Store Day. Record Store Day is the one day of the year when over 200 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture. Special vinyl releases are made exclusively for the day and many shops and cities host artist performances and events to mark the occasion. Thousands more shops celebrate the day around…
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Liverpool’s First Binary Festival Launches May 2016
Liverpool’s Binary Festival has announced the first keynote speakers and participants of this year’s inaugural festival; revealing an eclectic mix of pioneering virtual reality software, performances in live coding and poetry, and radical funding ideas. In May 2016, Liverpool’s first Binary Festival will take place. It’ll be a lively two-day festival that celebrates and connects communities of innovators, inventors, leaders, makers and creators of our future. The ambition is to attract new business, new ideas and new people to…
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Smithdown Road Festival 2016
The Smithdown Road Festival returns for 2016 as a completely free weekend of music, art and food around some of South Liverpool’s finest bars and cafes, with a massive outdoor area and big top on Wavertree Playground. There will be stages at The Mystery, Kelly’s Winebar, Evil Eye Beer & Burrito Shack, Franks, Brookhouse, Fat Flamingo, Caffee Oro, Sefton Park Cricket Club and Gregson Institute. There will be performances from the likes of Natalie McCool,…
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Independent Liverpool Announce Spring Food & Drink Festival 25th & 26th March
After the huge success of their Winter Wonderland in December, Independent Liverpool have announced their latest event; The Spring Food & Drink Festival. They will return to the Great Baltic Warehouse in the Baltic Triangle where there’ll be Easter Egg hunts, street food, daffodils and the grand re-opening of Liverpool’s gin garden. Once again some of the finest restaurants in the city will have stalls set up to bring you tasty treats all day, along…
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Threshold Reveal 2nd Wave Of Acts Ahead Of April Festival
Threshold Festival returns in 2016 for its sixth annual festival of grassroots music and arts, and organisers have now revealed an alchemic array of acts set to play the event on the 1st-3rd April in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. The twelve acts join the six already released in December of last year and Artistic Director, Kaya Herstad Carney is looking forward to seeing her programming work come to fruition for the sixth edition of the festival: “We aim to…
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Jacaranda Records Ltd – Cafe/Bar & Vinyl Store
Not living in the city centre anymore it has become one of my goals to visit the recently reopened Jacaranda whenever I’m in town. My first visit was always going to be one of apprehension and nerves. A famous historical venue for the city certainly, but on a personal level it was one of my most frequented haunts as a student. Three floors that all offered something different in terms of a vibe; you could get bottles of Stella…
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‘Back To The Future 2’ Screening At FACT 21st October
With 21st October 2015 being the date that Doc Brown and Marty McFly came back to the future, what’s a better excuse than to screen Back To The Future Part II again in cinemas? In order to stop a series of events that could ruin the McFly family name, Doc quickly wisks Marty and his girlfriend off to the future, 2015. It’s in 2015 that Marty must pose as his own son in order to…
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REX: The Concept Store Returns To Liverpool City Centre In Brand New Store
It is all hands on deck for the award winning Revolver Retail team as they prepare to launch the second incarnation of their department store concept REX. This time at the prestigious Metquarter on Friday the 14th of August. REX opened it’s doors in October 2014 within Rapid’s iconic George Henry Lees Building on Basnett Street. The aim was to test the market and see what retail talent Liverpool had to offer and create an…
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New Asian Inspired Food Truck 'pao!' To Launch In Liverpool's Baltic Triangle
Asian inspired sandwiches, Japanese Ramen and South-East Asian Curries will be the order of the day as new food truck Pao launches in Liverpool’s Baltic District. The project is the first of its kind in Liverpool and promises to give workers and food enthusiasts a convenient, healthy and affordable culinary option. Pao’s food is a celebration of the flavours of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Japan and China. It will offer fresh and colourful dishes with…
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Treat Yourself & Your Mum To A Vintage Pamper With Madame Medusa At Rex Concept Store This Mother's Day
Rex, the concept store are serving up a Mother’s Day treat this Sunday (15th March) with a vintage pop up hair and beauty shop. This will include; £5 Beauty Fix – Perfect Pouts & Vintage Winged Liner £10 Vintage Express Hair – Victorious Victory Rolls, Buzzin’ Beehives, Rockin’ Rockabilly Quiff £15 Vintage Express Up Do – 40’s Sweetheart, 50’s Marilyn Set & Betty Grable Poodle £20 Vintage Makeover – Vintage Hair & Beauty Fix Also,…
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Artisans in the Palm House Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 March
The artisans are back in the Palm House… Join the most diverse range of artists/makers under the fabulous glass roof. There will truly be something for everyone, with emphasis on quality & value. A treasure trove of products that are not found on the High Street, wonderful world foods prepared by chefs and refreshments including freshly brewed coffees, specialist teas, locally brewed beers & ciders. To see up to date information go to: www.facebook.com/ArtisansInThePalmHouse Artisans in the…
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Camp & Furnace Make Film Screening's A Weekly Feature
Camp & Furnace have announced that ‘Screen’ is going weekly every Thursday beginning on January 22nd with a dystopian future double bill of District 9 and Blade Runner (Directors Cut). Then on January 29th it’s the battle of the comedy hitmen with Grosse Pointe Blank and In Bruges and a double bill of left-field life-affirming loveliness as we show Being John Malkovich then Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind. Hardshakes, street food, big screen, big…
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The Critter Shed Announce First Birthday Party 25th January At Zanzibar
The Liverpool-based screen printing collective The Critter Shed have announced their first Birthday launch party we will be held on 25th Jan at The Zanzibar. This event is to celebrate one year since starting The Critter Shed as well bringing party attendees the latest pack, Creatures of the Night, and introducing their new venture into comics. The Critter Shed Press recently announced they are collaborating with some of the best past artists they have worked…
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Baltic Arts & Crafts Fair At Constellations 9th November
Baltic Arts and Crafts Fair returns, this time to Liverpool’s newest multi purpose venue – The Observatory (Constellation’s younger sister). Located on Greenland Street, Constellations is a brand new independently minded Baltic adventure. An indoor/outdoor space set over 12,000 square foot. As the nights are drawing in there is the distinct feeling that Christmas is upon us. Get ahead of the crowds and join in with the Arts and Crafts fair this November – escape…
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Vice's MUNCHIES Food Channel Feature Liverpool In 'The Guide To The North'
Vice’s MUNCHIES food channel have teamed up with Hungryhouse to create a 5-part series called ‘The Guide to the North’ – exploring food culture in all its weird and wonderfulness in the North of England – we feel it’s a really under-explored area on the UK food map. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBqsScfZOAU] The first episode was around Whitby and Middlesborough, and episode two, focuses on Blackpool, and Liverpool – including traditional Scouse at Maggie Mays, The Baltic Bakehouse,…
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New Coffee Bar And Lounge Barley & Beans Opens Its Doors In The Heart of Hatton Garden
The city’s commercial district has welcomed a new coffee bar and lounge ‘with a difference’ in the form of Barley & Beans. Located at 17 Hatton Garden, the independent brand provides customers with first class food and drink around the clock, serving a wide selection of signature classics including all-day full English breakfasts, sandwiches, burgers and light bites – whilst also housing a fully-licensed bar complete with signature cocktails. Director Nick Strauss said: “Our aim…
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Meet Joe Black Coffee; Liverpool's Only Coffee Roaster
I don’t often spend much time pondering over the provenance of my morning caffeine fix, but Bootle-based coffee producer Joe Black has got me thinking. Liverpool’s only coffee roaster have been producing some of the finest beans and blends in the city for over fifty years. They supply coffee directly to coffee-lovers in the know, as well as some of the most popular cafes, bars and restaurants across Liverpool, such as London Carriage Works, 60…
