Itchy City guide to Liverpool. Food, drink, film, music, stage, events, shopping, offers and competitions within Liverpool, Great Britain.

Like someone suffering a particularly traumatic breakup, this hoary old flag-bearer...

The once mighty Cream empire may not have its regular, all-conquering...

This is a place that seems to delight in changing its name...

Until recently, this gay and lesbian bar (with a slight emphasis on...

A place just as famous for the impossibly glamorous female staff as...

If this bar was a bloke, I'd probably fancy him...

As they are across most of Liverpool, the crowd in here are...

Recent years have seen a growth in nationality-identified mega-bars, especially...

A huge yellow and green joint slightly off the beaten track, they...

The fact that 'test tubes' are only a pound is...

Situated opposite Paradise bus station, the pub is easily spotted by the...

The Blue Bar has made its mark as the city's...

Wondering why I was sitting alone in this empty, dark and lonely...

It isn't remotely salty or from Russia but it is...

High class but tiny boozer, with impressive interior decoration that resembles some...

Hot and smokey but worth putting up with as this is one...

As an outpost of a national chain of themed late-night bars...

Not the expected smoky cigar den, this exotic yet chilled place is...

A tri–level Irish theme pub –to be sure, to...

The Jacaranda is cheap, it's on Slater Street, but something...

Aaah, parent–friendly, steak–deal–offering pubs sited just...

White stilettos are practically a uniform for this place. Lads, you may...

Girls get ready to be impressed. The way the boys play air...

If you're sick of crappy old chain bars clogging up...

Very small but friendly gay bar, which is stuck down a side...

Mello Mello's looking a little old at the moment. When...

Modo rewrote the rules when it first opened, with it's...

Arena Bar is a very tidy bar indeed. The décor...

I've always wanted to go to New York... Central Park...

Grown up sophistication for classy types on a mission to impress. Listen...

One of those warm and cosy pubs which look like they&apos...

Without a doubt one of the best pubs in Liverpool. Go out...

If you like big, incredibly ornate pubs, this grade 1 listed boozer...

On the seemingly hair–dresser obsessed Allerton Road, sits Pod &ndash...

Part of the impressive – but still establishing – Queen's...

The Michelangelo theme falls flat on its arse if class was the...

The white tiled walls, yellow plastic shelves for propping you and your...

Great food, reasonable prices and a daunting range of flavoured vodka offered...

Top notch pub based in a former 17th Century slaughter house and...

As far as bohemian society in Liverpool is concerned, Lark Lane is...

Used to be the Black Horse and Rainbow, and I still can...

Once a spit 'n' sawdust sort of pub, The Cal...

The dated celebrity photographs of musicians from the past forty years are...

What used to be life cafe has had a face–lift...

Possibly Liverpool's best–known gay venue. The Curzon &apos...

A cosy little pub in the town centre. Dive in here during...

Cleverly punning title, which could equally apply to the font of knowledge...

A good old–fashioned boozer full of good old–fashioned...

It would be easy to pass this off as just a theme...

Mixed gay pub with a pool table – sounds exciting so far...

As slinkily sultry and saucily seductive as a telephone number ending in...

The sexy and luscious Magnet is one of the coolest places in...

Brand spanking new and brassy to boot –Nectar is more than...

Just how devout a drinker are you? Are you so devoted that...

Stuck in a nostalgic envelope of time, the New Millennium has not...

A robber from Bootle Thought it's time for a rootle...

One of a lurid chain of giant pubs offering battered chicken fingers...

Large, very new, multi–levelled and cheap. A photo of The...

Not every bar in Liverpool can claim to be the first de...

It's another one of those wooden mega–boozers that...

The first thing everybody finds out about this pub is that it...