I mentioned elsewhere that I was a bit disappointed with The Guardian’s top ten list of Liverpool craft beer pubs. Mainly because a lot of them were just pubs that sold some […]
Why is a low cost Wetherspoon’s breakfast 50p cheaper in Liverpool than it is in Leeds?
If you walk out of Lime Street station and do an ‘eyes right’, you’re met with a stunning vista of neo-classical buildings, something Liverpool has in abundance, their semiotic presence denoting the city’s […]
The Willow Bank and sad times down Smithdown Road, Liverpool
Despite the old saying, ‘You should never go back’, in February I revisited Liverpool, where I spent three happy years as a student in the early 80’s. For two of those years […]
Why Save The Roscoe Head?
Sat in the little room at the back of the pub, she asked me why I’d called in? I said I was a bit sceptical and I’d come to see for myself […]
No Dead Pony Club?
I’ve noticed a theme building recently which came to a head in Liverpool BrewDog, when I discovered yet another BrewDog bar with no Dead Pony Club on draught. A phenomenon experienced in other BrewDog establishments ; […]
BrewDog Liverpool
I stumbled across Liverpool BrewDog by accident. I knew there was one, but not where. It definitely wasn’t in The Guardian top ten craft beer pubs in Liverpool, which I found on […]
Liverpool CAMRA beer festival review
The decision to have a few days in Liverpool was a last minute one so I hadn’t really done much research and simply ripped out the two page ‘Liverpool pub feature’ from […]
The Pen Factory – Liverpool Revisited
The Neo Gothic monolith that is the Anglican Cathedral didn’t disappoint, but apart from that, things weren’t going too well on my Liverpool revisited trip. Wandering round the streets at the top […]
Liverpool revisited and The Baltic Fleet
People always say it’ll never be the same again. You can’t recreate something that was really good, really special, so you should never go back. I sort of held with that for […]