| Pub | Comments | Location |
Coach and Horses (Coach and Horses) (Negresco Deco)
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The Coach and Horses was a large pub which seemed to drift over time from up-market comfort to a pool hall full of kids.
2007: Negresco Deco, on the other hand, was a very posh piano bar/restaurant with dark, atmospheric decor and a nice black and white tiled floor in the bar area.
2009: It's gone back to being a pub again, and they've got real ale! The nice decor remains, and the menu looks good, but it was deserted on a Saturday lunch-time when I visited.
2010: Closed.
Last visited 2009.
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Kings Drive / Speke Road
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Cobden (Cobden Vaults)
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In 1999 I remarked on the extremely nice, totally fake, wood beam interior complete with cart wheel partitions etc. More recently I found a total transformation, to a very well done modern style. The quality real ale remains. On my most recent visits there were four real ales, and the ones I tried were spot on.
Last visited October 2022.
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Quarry Street / Cobden View
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Coffee House
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A rather plain but well cared for interior in this large and very popular boozer. Reputed to be the oldest pub in Liverpool - The building is dated 1641.
Reported closed in March 2024.
Last visited October 2022.
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Woolton Street
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CookHouse (English Rose)
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The interior of this curved building seemed much smaller than the outside would suggest. The lounge side was the English Rose Restaurant, the plain bar side retained some nice 30s/50s features and was fairly busy with friendly locals when I visited.
It was thoroughly refreshed some time in the 2010s for its new incarnation as the CookHouse, concentrating on carvery food but still providing drinks.
Last visited March 2024.
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Halewood Road / Mackets Lane
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County Court
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A plain but very well looked after two bar pub. A friendly pleasant atmosphere on a Saturday evening. On my most recent visit the decent real ale was absent. In 2014 I found this place closed, with For Sale signs, and it has since been converted into flats.
Last visited 2013.
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Quarry Street / Gladstone Street
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Derby Arms
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A large pleasant knocked through corner pub very nicely decorated and looked after. The food looks good. On a visit in 1999 I fixed the TV!
Last visited October 2022.
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Menlove Avenue / Allerton Road
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Elephant (Famous Elephant) (Casa Del Cocodrilo)
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The Famous Elephant:
Before its refurbishment in late 1998 this was a large lively one bar pub with a nice interior and some fine ale. Afterwards the nice interior remained but the ale had gone - The pub was now aiming at the younger market, with plenty of lager and only keg bitter, although there were still two hand pumps on the bar.
In 2007 this became Casa Del Cocodrillo, a rather posh restaurant/bar, retaining and improving on the interior. The elephant pub sign remained outside (I'm told it is listed), but the elephant's head from over the door disappeared.
In late 2009, after a period of closure, the Elephant pub returned, keeping the fine decor of the restaurant and serving a range of decent ale. The food looks good and the pub is aimed mainly at diners. There's a function room upstairs. And they've replaced the elephant's head!
Last visited 2019.
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Woolton Street
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Gardeners Arms
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A beautifully done out friendly two-sided pub serving excellent ales, although the selection was down to just one on my most recent visit.
Last visited October 2022.
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Vale Road / Gladstone Street
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Grapes
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A friendly well cared for traditional one bar pub which retains some original features.
Last visited December 2022.
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Allerton Road / Quarry Street
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| Liberty Tavern (Baby Elephant) (Bubble Room) |
Originally, the Baby Elephant was a function room behind the Famous Elephant, then it became an Italian restaurant called Il Bambino Elephanti, followed by an American themed whiskey bar and grill called F.A.R.G.O, in 2010 a member of the Bubble Room restaurant chain, and then later Liberty Tavern.
Not visited.
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Woolton Street
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Loft (Chardonay's) (Cafe 49a) (Cello's)
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Although branded as a cafe bar this is really just another pub with a Friday night disco. The inside is like a barn, with iron roof beams and a wooden floor and is pleasantly decorated. Three different names, but the place remains exactly the same, with an odd lack of atmosphere early evenings - I imagine it's more lively later on.
Since it was renamed Loft it has become more bistro-like, and many customers were eating on a Saturday afternoon, but drinkers are still welcome in the very well done interior. The menu looks good and good value.
Last visited December 2023.
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Allerton Road / Church Road
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| Pickled Olive |
Cocktail bar. No draft beer.
Not visited.
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Woolton Street / Mason Street
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| Quarry |
Formerly the British Legion, I think, this has been well refurbished and features a large function room and a smaller comfortable bar.
Last visited 2018.
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Allerton Road, behind the Loft
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| Reigate |
Social club.
Not visited.
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Reigate Close
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| Victoria |
Partly knocked through but retaining a separate front room, the interior of this one bar pub is nicely done out with wood panelling. The beer yard is pleasant in sunny weather. Somehow, this place manages to retain the ambiance of a cheerful friendly local, long may it continue to do so.
Last visited October 2022.
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Quarry Street / Pit Place
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| Village Inn |
A pleasant quiet one bar pub. The fake decor is particularly well done. Hidden downstairs is a large, nicely decorated disco/function room which has a late licence on Friday nights, when it is busy with a mixed clientele. The above was written in October '98. A more recent Friday night visit found the downstairs closed and the upstairs with a disco and a late licence very lively and popular.
In 2010 I was told it had been refurbished and the downstairs part is now called the Bodega Bar.
In 2012 I found it closed and the building gutted.
Last visited 2011.
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Quarry Street / Rodick Street
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White Horse
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Nice decor perhaps a little over cluttered with horse brasses and the like in this busy friendly pub with one bar plus two small side areas. Always friendly staff serving fine ales and food.
This excellent pub's only down side seems to be that it is usually packed when I go in.
Last visited October 2022.
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Woolton Street
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