Liverpool Travel Guide
It might be most famous for The Beatles, and its two high-flying football clubs but scratch the surface and you’ll swiftly realise that there’s more to Liverpool than sport and music. Its thriving cultural scene, historic architecture and irrepressible lust for life make this city an unforgettable travel destination.
Once hampered by a down-at-heel reputation, there’s no doubt that Liverpool’s industrial past is now part of its considerable charm. Thanks to decades of careful urban regeneration and its 2,500-plus listed buildings (that’s more than any city outside London), the waterfront and other thoughtfully revitalised districts are packed with museums, galleries, bars and restaurants, some of the best shopping in Britain, and a host of gleaming – and interesting – hotels.
Liverpool has been recognised not once but twice by UNESCO. Its musical heritage and ongoing musical influence recently gained it the status of UNESCO City of Music, one of only 19 in the world. The waterfront area has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004, reflecting the city’s global significance as a commercial port when Britain’s empire was as its peak.
Albert Dock is at the heart of the heritage waterfront, closely followed by Stanley Dock, the historic commercial districts and the bustling cultural quarter around William Brown Street. Throw in some shiny new constructions and the iconic principal waterfront buildings of the Pier Head – the Cunard Building, the Port of Liverpool Building and the Royal Liver Building, together known as the Three Graces – and you get one of the world’s most recognisable city skylines.
Nowadays, culture plays just as big a part in drawing in the punters as footie and the Fab Four. Liverpool holds more national museums and galleries than any other UK city outside of the capital. Its remarkable portfolio includes the award-winning Museum of Liverpool, the International Slavery Museum, Tate Liverpool and The Beatles Story, while the UK’s museum of popular music, the British Music Experience (BME), is the latest arrival on the city’s flourishing cultural scene.
As with music, sport continues to exert a hold on Liverpool, whether in the crowds that cram into the stands to watch Liverpool or Everton play, or the throngs of colourfully-dressed race-goers that turn out each year for the Grand National.
Liverpool started life as a small riverside village in the 13th century but its growth occurred when its port boomed during the 17th and 18th century via the slave and cotton trades. Profits from the slave trade helped the town to prosper despite the fact that prominent local men such as William Rathbone were at the forefront of the abolitionist movement.
By the early 19th century, 40% of the world’s trade passed through Liverpool’s docks. In 1830, Liverpool and Manchester were the first cities in the country to have an intercity rail link and in the following decade, the city’s population soared as a result of Irish immigrants escaping the Great Famine.
By 1851, one quarter of the population were Irish-born residents. Chinese immigration was also significant; Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe, numbering around 30,000. German, Greek, Nordic, Jewish and Polish communities also began to grow and make their mark on the city.
Many key landmarks were built during this period in the city’s history. The famous Albert Dock was completed in 1846. In the early 20th century, the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building were all built, collectively becoming known as the ‘Three Graces’.
80 air raids on Merseyside killed 2,500 people and destroyed half of all buildings during the WWII. Significant rebuilding took place in the post war years, some of which was deeply unpopular.
The 1960s saw the ascent of The Beatles and other local bands, while the 1970s and 1980s were characterised by the decline of manufacturing industries and the docks, plus a spike in unemployment; the city was overlooked by successive governments
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By the end of the century, Liverpool had embarked on ambitious regeneration scheme. As a result, the docks today are a thriving area packed with key attractions including Tate Liverpool, The Beatles Story and the Maritime Museum. The development of Liverpool ONE, the remodelled city centre, is part of Liverpool’s renaissance and opened in 2008 when the city became the first in England to be named
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Liverpool and Everton football clubs have collectively won 27 league titles, making Liverpool the most successful football city in England.
Liverpool has 10 listed parks and cemeteries, more than any other English city, bar London.
The Titanic was registered in Liverpool, the city’s name adorning the ship.
Liverpool enjoys a temperate climate, like much of the British Isles, with relatively warm rather than hot summers and mild winters. The most popular time to visit is between spring and summer when it’s pleasant enough to walk around the city and enjoy waterfront attractions. Average temperatures in the summer are between 17°C (62°F) and 20°C (68°F). Rainfall is evenly spread throughout the year. Winters can bring snow so be prepared.
Getting around Liverpool
Mersey Travel
Telephone: +44 151 227 5181
Website: www.merseytravel.gov.uk runs Liverpool’s excellent public transport network, operating a comprehensive range of bus, train and ferry services throughout the city.
Public transport runs frequently throughout the day and a number of bus services operate at night. Liverpool’s two bus stations are on Roe Street and Paradise Street, closer to the centre of the city. There is also an underground system that operates between the city’s four main train stations (Lime Street, Central Station, James Street and Moorfields).
A variety of tickets and passes are available, including the one-day Saveaway pass, which you can load on a Walrus Card, Liverpool’s contactless smartcard.
There are many taxi ranks throughout the city including at all the major train and bus stations. You can also hail taxis anywhere on the street. To pre-book a taxi, try
A1 Taxis
Telephone: +44 151 480 7777
Alpha Taxis
Telephone: +44 151 722 8888
Like most UK cities, if you’re driving around Liverpool, avoid peak commuting hours where possible. There are several car parks around the city – the Capital Car Park on The Strand near the waterfront, Queen Square car park which is open 24 hours and Q-Park, three separate car parks serving the Liverpool ONE shopping complex.
Liverpool’s bikeshare scheme is called
Citybike
Telephone: +44 151 374 2034
Website: www.citybikeliverpool.co.uk
The Rolling Fix Liverpool Cycles
Address: 198 Breck Rd, Everton, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 306 1398
Website: www.therollingfix.co.uk
There are more than 100 stations across the city and daily memberships are available.
The Merseyside Cycling Campaign ( Website: www.merseycycle.org.uk ) can offer information and advice for cycling routes in and around Liverpool.
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Attractions
This striking, ship-like museum is dedicated to local culture and history across three floors. Situated in the docks, its interactive collection explores how the people and the port have shaped the city. With sections on creative and sporting history, visitors can enjoy everything from the Beatles to football, conveyed with impassioned Liverpudlian fondness.
Address: P
ier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 478 4545
Opening times: Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00.
Website: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Admission Fees: No
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Telling the story of Liverpool’s great port, this splendid museum brings alive the story of mass emigration, as well as the city’s close ties to the Titanic. It focuses on the history of Albert Dock with models, maritime paintings, colourful posters and full-sized vessels. The third floor is the International Slavery Museum, dedicated to the history of the transatlantic slave trade and its appalling legacy.
Address: Albert Dock, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 478 4499
Opening times: Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00.
Website: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Admission Fees: No
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Finished in 1978, Britain’s largest Anglican cathedral is worth visiting for the stunning panoramic views from the tower alone. But set aside plenty of time to gawp at the spectacular interior too; it houses artwork by contemporary artists including Tracey Emin. The cathedral was the lifework of architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who was also responsible for Battersea Power Station and the iconic red telephone box.
Address: St James Mount, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 709 6271
Opening times: Daily 10:00-18:00.
Website: www.liverpoolcathedral.org.uk
Admission Fees: No
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
A multilingual audio tour guides visitors through the Fab Four’s story, charting the success of the band from their early days in Liverpool and Hamburg through to international superstardom and their eventual break-up and subsequent solo careers. It includes rare photographs of the band and life-size reconstructions of the Cavern Club and Abbey Road Studios.
Address: Albert Dock, Britannia Vaults, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 709 1963
Opening times: Daily 09:00-17:00.
Website: www.beatlesstory.com
Admission Fees: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Part of the Tate family of museums, the Tate Liverpool is one of the largest galleries of modern and contemporary art outside of London, with works from 20th-century greats from Jean Arp to Andy Warhol. As well as presenting regular visiting exhibitions, there are tours, lectures, family events and a café designed by Sir Peter Blake.
Address: Albert Dock, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 702 7400
Opening times: Daily 10:00–17:50.
Website: www.tate.org.uk
Admission Fees: No (except for major exhibitions).
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isabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Built in 1846, the world’s first enclosed, non-combustible dock warehouse system has been developed into the beating heart of Liverpool’s characterful waterfront. It’s an irresistible mix of old architecture and cutting-edge thinking. Many of the Dock’s thriving museums, galleries, bars and restaurants are housed in converted warehouses with iron colonnades. The Dock also has the largest grouping of Grade I-listed buildings in Britain.
Address: 34 The Colonnades, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 707 8384
Opening times: Daily 24 hours.
Website: www.albertdock.com
Admission Fees: No
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: Yes
The city is home to two of England’s most successful football clubs: Liverpool and Everton. While a behind-the-scenes tour of Everton’s Goodison Park is a great experience, their trophy cabinet doesn’t shine like Liverpool’s Anfield collection, which is adorned with five European trophies. Tours visit the stadium’s interactive museum, dressing rooms, and go behind the scenes of the enormous new Main Stand.
Address: Albert Dock, Anfield Road, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 260 6677
Opening times: Daily 09:00-17:00.
Website: www.stadiumtours.liverpoolfc.com
Admission Fees: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
It makes complete sense to house the UK’s museum of popular music in Liverpool, and about 10% of the exhibition is devoted to Liverpool’s remarkable contribution to the scene. The unrivalled collection includes gems such as David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust costumes. To add another layer of history, you’ll find it in the passenger lounge of the iconic Cunard Building.
Address: Cunard Building, Liverpool
Telephone: +44 151 519 0915
Opening times: Wed-Sun 10:00-17:00.
Website: www.britishmusicexperience.com
Admission Fees: Yes
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Opened in 1877, the Walker Museum was founded by local brewer and alderman Andrew Barclay Walker, and now houses one of the nation’s finest collections of sculptures and paintings dating from the 13th-century through to the present day, with an especially impressive collection of Pre-Raphaelite art. Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool by David Hockney is among its highlights.
Address: William Brown Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 478 4199
Opening times: Tue-Sun 10:00-17:00.
Website: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
Admission Fees: No
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Liverpool is blessed with more parks than Paris, of which Sefton Park is perhaps the most wonderful. With 95 hectares (235 acres) of rich parkland, boating lakes and blooming flowers to explore, this Grade I historic park is a peaceful oasis. Its centrepiece is the Victorian Palm House, built in 1896 and restored in 1993, and its surrounding statues.
Address: Sefton Park, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 726 9304
Opening times: Sun-Thurs 10:00-17:00.
Website: www.palmhouse.org.uk
Admission Fees: No
Disabled Access: Yes
UNESCO: No
Tourist Offices
Address: ONE, 5 Wall St, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 351 0300
Opening times: Mon-Sat 09:30-16:30.
Website: www.liverpool-one.com
The insightful, multi-lingual staff at the Albert Dock Visitor Centre can help with all visitor enquiries, including booking accommodation, restaurants, shows and concerts. There are also offices at Platform 7 of Lime Street Station, Liverpool John Lennon Airport and 112 Lord Street in Southport.
Things to do in Liverpool
- Enjoy some first class football
Boasting two Premier League teams, Liverpool has plenty of football action if you’re a fan. Join the supporters of:
Liverpool FC (
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Everton FC’s (
Website: www.evertonfc.com ) Goodison Park for an old school atmosphere.
- Forget the ferry – powerboat across the Mersey
When local band Gerry and the Pacemakers sang about the Ferry Cross the Mersey, they immortalised the boat trip in popular culture.
Liverpool Watersports
Telephone: +44 151 708 9322
Website: www.liverpoolwatersports.org.uk modernise the same journey on a powerboat by offering both lessons and hour-long rides departing from South Docks.
- Have a flutter at the Grand National’s course
Every April, thousands of devoted horseracing fans descend on
Aintree Racecourse
Telephone: +44 151 523 2600
Website: www.aintree.thejockeyclub.co.uk for the prestigious Grand National race.
The track has races throughout the year, so place a bet, take a grandstand seat and cheer your stallion on as the jockeys battle to clear the course’s notoriously difficult jumps.
- Test your swing on some of England’s best golf courses
Liverpool is close to three Royal Links golf courses that have hosted countless Open Championships and Ryder Cups.
Royal Birkdale
Telephone: +44 170 455 2040
Website: www.royalbirkdale.com boasts an art deco inspired clubhouse, whilst;
Royal Liverpool
Telephone: +44 151 632 6757
Website: www.royal-liverpool-golf.com is one of the oldest seaside courses in England.
- Tour Liverpool’s mysterious underworld world
Explore beneath the streets of Edge Hill where the labyrinthine
Williamson Tunnels
Telephone: +44 151 709 6868
Website: www.williamsontunnels.co.uk
Built under the direction of local eccentric Joseph Williamson, the reason for their construction is unknown. Some claim it was to help unemployment, others to escape the impending Armageddon.
Liverpool tours and excursions
Liverpool tours
There are several companies providing bus tours around Liverpool. There is no escaping The Beatles in Liverpool so embrace it and board a Magical Mystery Tour bus to see the places that helped bring John, Paul, George and Ringo together, from Strawberry Fields to the Cavern Club. It’s surprisingly moving.
For a different perspective on Liverpool, try one of these unusual walking tours. Wrap up warm and head deep beneath thecity with Mersey Tunnel Tours. The Mersey tunnels appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Fast & Furious 6, but just as compelling is the chance to see an engineering masterpiece first-hand. Shiverpool’s historic ghost tours will chill you in a completely different way. There’s no holding back on the theatrics when it comes to telling tales of Liverpool’s grisly past.
Mersey Tunnel Tours
Telephone: +44 151 227 5181
Website: www.merseytunnels.co.uk
Shiverpool Ghost Tours
Telephone: +44 151 709 2030
Website: www.shiverpool.co.uk
Liverpool excursions
Overlooking the city’s skyline as well as the Welsh hills, the scenic Wirral Peninsula offers 40km (25 miles) of dramatic coastline and peaceful villages including pretty Port Sunlight. It also has plenty of unspoilt countryside, including award-winning Botanic Gardens. The Wirral is also home to a Michelin-starred restaurant Friache and numerous gastro pubs.
Website: www.visitwirral.com
Around here they say that Napoleon re-modelled parts of Paris based on Southport. Whether that’s fact or folklore, this traditional seaside resort, with its lengthy iron pier, traditional arcades and long sandy beaches, is a wonderful day trip just north of Liverpool. Don’t miss Antony Gormley’s thought-provoking art installation Another Place where 100 life-size cast-iron figures gaze out to sea at the mercy of the tide along Crosby Beach.
Website:
www.visitsouthport.comShopping in Liverpool
Extremely style-conscious, Liverpudlians are big on their brand names and visitors will find most major high street shops having at least one outlet in the city. Shopping in Liverpool is helping to transform the city’s image.
Liverpool ONE is the new, buzzing retail and leisure district close to Albert Dock, featuring more than 160 stores, including John Lewis, Debenhams, an Apple store plus designer brands. A few minutes’ walk away off Whitechapel is the Metquarter, featuring designer stores such as MAC, Molton Brown, Flannels, Hugo Boss, Jo Malone, A|X Armani Exchange and Diesel.
Bold Street is great if you’re looking for alternative, bohemian shops. Other shops are on or close to a few main streets around Williamson Square, but it is worth exploring side streets for some of the city’s more unusual boutiques and stores.
For something a little different, head to Chinatown where every other Sunday there is a large Chinese market that sells everything from freshly prepared food to traditional Chinese cooking pots. There are also farmers markets and Christmas markets at specific times of the year.
Of particular note is the Cavern Designer Shopping Centre on Mathew Street in the Cavern Quarter, where Vivienne Westwood has a boutique alongside other designer brands and independent boutiques.
Alternatively, there’s Grand Central housing 40 small shops ranging from alternative clothing to used furniture, whilst Bluecoat stocks the best in contemporary fashion, homeware, craft and design.
Like other large UK cities, larger department stores and shops stay open till 20:00 on weekdays, until 19:00 on Friday and 17:00 on Sundays.
Football and Beatles memorabilia and fashion are among the most popular purchased items in Liverpool. In addition, maritime-themed gifts and artwork are also available from souvenir shops in Albert Dock such as Nauticalia, Impressions of Liverpool, With Love From Liverpool and The Gift Company.
Restaurants in Liverpool
Liverpool has a thriving restaurant scene, from sophisticated fine dining to independent bistros, ranging from top Indians to spicy Thais.
The restaurants below have been grouped into three pricing categories:
Expensive (over £40)
Moderate (£25 to £40)
Cheap (up to £25)
These prices are for a three-course meal for one, including half a bottle of house wine or equivalent, tax and service. A service charge of 12.5% will be added to your bill in most restaurants. If ‘Service is not included’, 10% tipping is customary.
Expensive
- Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill
Cuisine: Steak house
Steakhouse Bar & Grill Liverpool is situated within the contemporary boutique Hotel Indigo. It pays homage to the rich industrial heritage of the restaurant’s location on Chapel Street, once home to the city’s cotton trade and Liverpool’s enduring music legacy. Marco’s is a place where guests feel welcome and relaxed, to unwind and enjoy great food. It’s the perfect mix of affordable glamour and understated elegance.
The menu is exclusively curated by Marco himself. To suit all tastes, it typically includes a mix of childhood favourites and modern-day delicacies. Marco’s ethos is all about classic dishes, simply cooked using the best locally sourced ingredients.
Address: 10 Chapel St, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 559 0555
Website: www.mpwrestaurants.co.uk
Cuisine: Fine dining
The 360-degree views from the (you guessed it) 34th floor of Liverpool’s highest skyscraper encompass the Liver Building, the Irish Sea, Liverpool Cathedral and ferries crossing the Mersey river. And the menu is as varied as the panorama. Take in sparkling views over a Champagne afternoon tea, watch the sun set over cocktails, or dine as the city lights up at night.
Address: 34th Floor, West Tower, Brook Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 236 5534
Website: www.panoramic34.com
Cuisine: Fine dining
Set in the handsome surroundings of a former Victorian home for destitute children, the Art School creates changing menus starring local, seasonal produce. At the helm is renowned chef Paul Askew who oversees the wonderful five-course masterpieces that come from the kitchen, delivered by impeccable staff in rather art gallery surrounds.
Address: 1 Sugnall Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 230 8600
Website: www.theartschoolrestaurant.co.uk
Moderate
- The London Carriage Works
Cuisine: Fine dining
Created by the city’s most decorated chef, Paul Askew, The London Carriage Works offers classic menus either in its relaxed brasserie or the adjacent restaurant. The building, erected in the 1860s in the style of a Venetian palazzo, was once the home of a coach and carriage builders, hence the name.
Address: 40 Hope Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 705 2222
Website: www.thelondoncarriageworks.co.uk
Cuisine: Pub grub
With open fires and an old school charm, The Monro is an excellent, cosy gastro pub offering a good-value menu of delicious food. The restaurant uses only British produce and sources ingredients as locally as possible, thereby supporting local food producers and reducing its environmental impact. Don’t miss the Sunday roasts.
Address: 92 Duke Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 707 9933
Website: www.monroliverpool.co.uk
Cuisine: Indian
Yukti is an excellent Indian restaurant that mixes traditional curries with modern culinary twists. A particular favourite of seafood curry lovers and vegetarians, plates are wonderfully styled, making the short trip out of the city centre well worth it. Try the West County soft shell crab in Chennai-style batter.
Address: Liverpool L1 2SJ.
Telephone: +44 151 228 2225
Website: www.yukti.co.uk
Cheap
Cuisine: Sandwiches, salads and soups
LEAF on Bold Street is a unique, independent teashop and bar located in the heart of Liverpool city centre with a fab café menu serving wholesome food from sandwiches, salads and soups and countless varieties of loose-leaf tea. More than just a café, it also hosts art, music and club nights.
Address: 65-67 Bold Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 707 7747
Website: www.thisisleaf.co.uk
Cuisine: American
For hearty all-day breakfasts, you can’t beat Moose Coffee. The American-style dishes come in all-American portion sizes too, meaning great value for money. The homemade potato hash of The Mighty Moose is delicious but if you’ve got a sweet tooth, try the apple and salted caramel pancakes. They also do a tasty line in sandwiches, salads and burgers.
Address: 6 Dale Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 227 4880
Website: www.moosecoffee.co
- Bakchich Lebanese Restaurant
Cuisine: Lebanese
Bakchich is quite simply a little piece of Lebanon that sits on the chic and quirky Bold Street in Liverpool. This most beautiful and lovingly crafted restaurant is, from start to finish an experience and flavour of the Mediterranean. Our food menu is created with magic and mystery at every turn and the menu is a treasure hunt of culinary tastes, vision and feel. Each dish is lovingly created to reflect a little piece of the Lebanon. Every mouthful, designed to be a taste sensation of learning and understanding of the culture and ethos of Lebanon cuisine. New for 2021: we are now featuring Moroccan cuisine on our menu.
Address: 54 Bold St, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 707 1255
Website: www.bakchich.co.ukLiverpool Nightlife
Liverpool has a well-deserved reputation as a party city. From traditional pubs to trendy bars and throbbing nightclubs, the city has something for everyone. The greatest variety of nightlife is found along Seel Street, while old boozers can be sampled on Hardman Street. The Liverpool LGBT scene centres on Stanley Street with the revamped warehouses of the Baltic Triangle host to arty events and festivals.
Bars in Liverpool
This Prohibition-style cocktail bar takes the era’s inclination for secrecy to extremes. You’d never guess that behind a rather humdrum door – you may even have to knock – and thick velvet curtain lies a portal back to 1930s Chicago. Think candles in wine bottles and gin and whiskey cocktails that slip down all too easily to the jazz and blues soundtrack. No bookings – just turn up.
Address: 48 Berry Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 345 7271
Website: www.berryandrye.uk
At NQ64, we bloody love cocktails. Our cocktails are serious business, top notch bartenders, only the best quality stuff and loads nostalgic vibes.. Our boss little neon-splattered bar is open late 5 days a week on Colquitt St. Head down for game-themed cocktails, retro arcade machines and consoles, specially-chosen beers, wines, spirits, and sodas, and all the good vibes you can shake a stick.
Address: 22 Colquitt St, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 673 1657
Website: www.nq64.co.uk
Beer enthusiasts should check out The Ship & Mitre, a CAMRA Pub of Excellence. Housed within one of the city’s few remaining art deco buildings, it is thought that a pub has existed on the site for at least 120 years. The Ship stocks one of the region’s biggest range of beers so visitors can sample everything from cask ales and German pilsners to draught beers from the Czech Republic.
Address: 133 Dale Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 236 0859
Website: www.theshipandmitre.uk
Clubs in Liverpool
Camp and Furnace is housed in one of the revamped industrial complexes in the dock area rebirthed as the Baltic Triangle. Offering a line-up of alternative and experimental music acts, critically acclaimed food, plus some stomping club nights, check out Nightgarden on Friday nights, where food and drink meet art and performance.
Address: 39 Greenland Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 708 2890
Website:www.campandfurnace.com
Nightspot with banquettes, booths, light wall, club room and terrace, for cocktails and dancing. A multi-purpose venue open throughout the week, Modo regularly welcomes guest DJs and curators for warehouse nights that can run until 04:00.
Address: 2 Concert St, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 709 8832
Website: www.modoliverpool.co.uk
Harking back to the hedonistic heyday of rave, Level is Liverpool’s largest club and is modelled on the mammoth super clubs of the 1990s like Manchester’s Hacienda. Split over three levels, there are six rooms and seven bars, plus some 2,600 partygoers lifting hands in the air to house, electronica, hip hop and bass music.
Address: 18-20 Fleet Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 351 6709
Website: www.levelnightclub.co.uk
Live music in Liverpool
Originally a meeting spot for The Liverpool Royal Institute art collective, this historic 19th-century arts building on Seel Street has been transformed into a multi-functional venue for cutting-edge music, comedy and club nights. Expect anything from Fatboy Slim to Foals. It also contains a superb bar and kitchen, serving quality meals and craft beer.
Address: 90 Seel Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 539 4110
Website: www.arts-club-liverpool.com
Built in 1905, The Olympia is one of the city’s largest concert venues, with an interior modelled on the Moscow Kirov Ballet. Expect large touring acts ranging from anything from Robert Plant and Placebo to New Order and Tame Impala. This converted cinema hosts comedy, boxing and wrestling as well.
Address: West Derby Road, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 263 6633
Website: www.liverpoololympia.com
The Zanzibar Club has an excellent reputation for handpicking the very best of the underground scene and covering anything from indie and metal to folk and country. Breaking bands long before they hit the big time, the Zanzi is small, so you’re never too far from the action.
Address: 43 Seel Street, Liverpool.
Telephone: +44 151 351 6700
Website: www.thezanzibarclub.comLiverpool Food And Drink
Food In Liverpool
Scouse is Liverpool city’s traditional dish. A stew often made with lamb, beef, or both, it originates from the word ‘lobscouse’, which was a stew often eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe, popular in port cities such as Liverpool.The most famous of Liverpool’s foods, scouse is so popular in the region that the name has become a nickname for people from the area and the name of the local dialect.
This classic toad in the hole recipe features a homemade Yorkshire pudding batter with sausages. Serve with onion gravy and mash for the ultimate comfort.
The name “bubble and squeak” likely comes from the noises the ingredients make when they are fried together in a pan. Since cabbage contains a lot of water, it tends to make “bubbly” noises as it wilts and cooks.
Welcome to the world of Everton Mints, Originally called Everton Toffee. A butterscotch-type sweet infused with the tiniest hint of lemon zest. The history of Everton mints stretch back to the 1760s, in Liverpool where the Molly Bushell first made these marvels. They’re a real classic.
This local Liverpool favourite is a moister version of Nelson cake – a Lancashire fruit cake – hence the name Wet Nelly.
Drink In Liverpool
Liverpool is Officially the Tea Drinking Capital of the UK.
A pint of beer has been revealed as the drink that most Brits would choose above the rest, showing that irrespective of the ever-expanding drinks menu, Brits are happiest with a perfectly poured pint.
Spirits that were originally made in the UK include gin, in the south of England.
Scottish whisky is famous around the world, and similarly, Irish whiskey is also popular and renowned.