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Another fine, but smallish traditional Liverpool pub in a side street a couple of blocks away from the Philharmonic.
The Roscoe Head has been in every edition of CAMRA's GBG to date and I enjoyed a reasonable pint of Jennings in here last Friday lunchtime - 27 June 2008. There's 3-4 real ales on in total.
Perhaps unusually for Liverpool, there are several side rooms off a central drinking lobby ( rather similar in layout to Manchester pubs such as The Hare and Hounds on Shudehill )
The pub offers good honest lunchtime pub grub ( eg - steak and kidney pie, chips, peas and gravy for £ 4.75p ) . None of this poncey gastro food nonsense here !
The pub is named after William Roscoe, a famous anti-slave trade campaigner in the 1780's.
Read more about the pub in the Liverpool Historic Pub Guide, which is well worth getting hold of.
Visit recommended - try and make time to do this one if you can.
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cosy, friendly atmosphere and fantastic quality ale, consistantly excellent. nice decor too, a perfect pub for after work pint-and-paper situations.
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bit like a street corner local..well run..well kept beers and a friendly staff and clientele..situated off the main rd..but quite easy to find..pubs like this are a godsend to beer efficianados..quiet and respectful..worth a visit while in liverpool.
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Great little pub, traditional layout with bar serving into open entrance hall with 2 rooms off and a screened snug at the end of the bar. Serves Jennings and a few other real ales, look for blackboard on right of bar and food. Agree with the comment about the refurb deserving an OBE, sitting there one night and it slowly dawned, after a bit of discussion about the place, that it had been refurbished.
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Recommended by drinkers outside a crowded Dispensary as somewhere without football on the TV. What a lovely cosy friendly pub. We sat in the snug area, and enjoyed our real ales and chat with the locals. Smashing pub.
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Nice little back street boozer...worth seeking out
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Superb, traditional, multiroom pub. Friendly welcome, excellent ale and good value food. Not to be missed.
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great place got wasted in there in 2002 on a double gin, double martini rosso and double chinzano bianco with drop of angastura's bitter.
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A decent friendly pub and a good selection of ales.
anonymous - 29 Oct 2006 19:07 |
Whoever handled the refurb deserves an OBE - it's in the same style and spirit as before but if you look closely you can see it's all clean and new. Got to admit, this is the first time I've seen a refurb improve a place - the best has just got better. Now serves food if you're into that sort of thing.
anonymous - 29 May 2006 14:01 |
The Roscoe has been refurbished and is even better than ever. Some fine Belhaven and Black Sheep to be had on my recent visit. Visit The Fly en route to here for a very pleasurable 'double'
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Timeless, classic 'Pool boozer. Untouched by the vagaries of fashion. Has been in every edition of the Good Beer Guide. Reputed to have the smallest bar-room in the City. A must see establishment of the highest merit.
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Classic Liverpool pub - highly recommended, but it's a bit small so don't go in all together in a large group
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I never went in this place when I was a student here, always being dragged to Ye Crack and the Phil. What a shame. I went in recently and was v. impressed with the beer, the unspoilt layout and friendly staff. Probably the best pub in Liverpool for well kept ales.
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Like drinking in someone's front room listening in to the conversations. All come thickly buttered with Scouse wit. Beer selection is quite decent and impeccably served
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Good place. Clean and friendly. Excellent beer.
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Friendly backstreet local,which looks like its been unchanged for decades...Decent beer.The daytime punters aren`t too young.You do (unintentionally..!)eavesdrop on other peoples conversation due to the pubs layout
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Feels like someone's home. Always a good welcome wioth good ale and simple plain food. Very difficult to walk past
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Been in every God Beer Guide since its first publication. Tiny bar area, two tiny rooms, and an even tinier snug. Not the place to go for a private conversation but well worth a visit. It's amazing how it's survived unspoilt all these years, but then why change something which works. I don't know if the same woman is still doing the food, if she is you might get to sample her latest experiment - usually a treat.
Quiet during the day after lunch so good for hangovers. Stay there and create a new one.
palmwinedrinkard - 24 May 2004 15:26 |
A classic unspoilt backstreet local gem. Usually two Jennings beers plus a changing guest beer. I have only visited once in the late 1990s, but if it hasn't changed since then it's definitely worth a visit. A compartmentalised pub featuring all sorts of snugs and drinking areas. Go and see for yourselves!
Lee Newton - 14 Apr 2004 17:32 |
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