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I go here several times a week and love it. Had a great pint of Cains FA yesterday served by a lovely friendly bar maid! Just hope it doesn't close down now that Cains have gone into administration!
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Friendly welcome in this busy pub, which has a good range of Cains ales. Well worth a visit.
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This is a great pub with a wide choice of Cains beers. I suggest have several half pints so that you can try a little of everything before you are in no state to remember what you've had! Fabulous tiled interior & nice relaxed atmosphere.
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I was served a very poor pint of Cains Dark Mild here this week. I took it back to the Bar person who grudgingly exchanged it for a pint of 2008; they didn't pour it properly and told a colleague to 'top it up' after I waited for the drink to settle. OK, so the bar person was tired my point it however that the "Tiled Room" was full of international guests and I thought what a thoroughly poor customer/visitor experience for any of our guests to have experienced in the hands of Charmless Barperson of the Year. Put it this way: Charmless Barperson would be their written warning if they worked for me. Finally, the men's restroom still ranks as one of the most disgusting this side of Hades, it is still truly vile.
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Fine flagship Cains pub in the City Centre near Queen Square and next door to The Marriott Hotel.
You can choose from Bitter, Mild, FA, IPA or the 2008 Ale celebrating Liverpool's achievement as European Capital of Culture.
Do be sure to visit the magnificent ornate tiled room downstairs - this part of the building was previously the headquarters of Pearl Assurance.
Dr Duncan was the first Medical Health Officer in Liverpool in the 1800's and these are interesting framed panels dotted round the pub giving more information.
This is another central Liverpool pub that is worth visiting, with its cental location making it an ideal start or finish point for a crawl
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Dark mild, yum yum yum! Beautiful tiled interior. Real gem.
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Excellant cains pub. The menu is very good. you can tell the brewery is local. Had the bitter which was super. 9/10
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Was in Liverpool yesterday. I trip to liverpool would not be complete without a visit to a Cains Pub. This has to be one of the best and its near Lime Street station on the way back from the Ship and Mite!
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The beer has much improved here of late. Although resembling a vasectomy clinic's waiting room its well worth a visit. Oh, the gent's is truly dreadful and reminiscent of boozers of yore, it smells, is dirty and the floors are often awash with....fill in the blank.
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Best pub of my weekend in Liverpool. Fantastic range of Cains beers. The Dark Mild was to die for and yet another great Liverpudlian pub interior.
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Cavernous city centre boozer with a great range of Cains that is always well served and kept and as it's only about 2 minutes walk from Lime Street station it's usually my first stopping off place whenever I go into the city on train. As has already been mentioned, the tiled room is one of real aledom's great hidden treasures. The only downside I know of here is the 'beer garden' a flagged area about 6 feet square that has a couple of rickety benches installed in it. It doesn't quite live up to the rest of the pub's ecellent quality. But so what? I'd much rather be in a cosy corner inside.
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Enjoyed the selection of Cains beers in this clean, friendly pub. Had a wander round the rooms and was amazed with the tiled room off the bar area. Wonderful column and fireplace.
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A great pub with a good range of beers and a fantastic Victorian tiled interior that is worth a look alone.
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Generally a good variety of Cains on offer and well kept. Like this place.
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Visited Liverpool from London a fortnight back. Discovered this place - a well cared for pub, with an array of Cain's brews. Very impressive. Enjoyed the FA.
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I think this is one of Liverpool's finest. Cains is a top brew and the variety on offer is always good. I recommend the 5% Formidable Ale - very quaffable and sent me into "alternative reality" land very quickly. No,not legless just pleasantly woozy.
Nice traditional front bar, a bit Dublinesque, not so keen on the back room-tacky- but the Dispensary part is tops.
Staff pleasant. Haven't tried the food yet but I go for the beer!
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Been using this pub as the alternative bar at the Marriott bar next door. Friendly staff and £2.06p for the Cains Bitter. Clean and Tidy, nothing wrong with this city centre pub in my book
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Perfect for an away fans pre match pint - hop in a taxi outside to get to Liverpool, Everton on Tranmere
anonymous - 15 Nov 2006 18:59 |
I'd say this is a poor example of a flagship pub. The beer is only ever 'ordinary' you can seldom get the famous Cain's Lager and I have not seen a guest beer here in many a month. Week in week out you will get an excellent pint at The Lion or The Fly. Why not here?
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It's an average pub with fairly decent beer.
anonymous - 12 Sep 2006 22:39 |
Cheap good beer in nice surroundings. The bar staff were very friendly and helpful when I asked about plaecs to eat in the vicinity. The location means that it was rather crowded, I can't vouch for it in the past, but I had a pleasing visit and an excellent Cains Mild.
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After a third disappointing visit I shall probably call time on this once highly rated and iconic Liverpool pub. Its the beer you see! At one time you could be assured that a good selection of well-kept beers was to be had. Now, you'd be lucky to find one decent one. On recent visits the flagship Cains lager was 'sour, the Cains IPA flat and tasteless and the 'guest' Cains Victoria bitter was similarly flat and poorly kept. Suggestion: Clean your pipes and look after your beers. I'm not paying £2+ per pint for poor beer. If 'The Fly' can do it properly week in week out Dr. Duncans can do it too. Flagship Cains Pub? You're having a laugh - but not with my money you aint.
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Still better than many, but the guests have gone and the Cains bitter and the IPA bore no resemblance to the quality beers sampled here a year ago. Food still looks good value, and it is still a favoured haunt of football fans post-Liverpool games.And the aspect across St George's hall is worth the visit.
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Came in here on a recent visit to Liverpool. The beer was terrible. I tried several different ones but all were in poor condition. It's a shame that one of Cain's flagship pubs can't look after its beer. Won't be recommending it to anyone else.
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Great beer, attractive surroundings and the food isn't bad either.
Can get a bit busy at the weekends but overall a fantastic Cains pub.
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Great beer,great tiled seating area(with lofted ceiling) and no scallies...One of my favourite Liverpool pubs,though it took me a few minutes to find it.
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An excellent pub, right next door to the Marriot Hotel. I always go in for a pint or two when I am up there on business.
They always have a great selection of beers, both Cains of Liverpool and guest beers. Definitely a pub for the mature drinker. No jukebox or slot machine (at least, I have never noticed them.) A good place for a quiet pint and a chat.
The tiled saloon room is fantastic, a converted insurance office if I have been correctly informed. The back rooms could do with brightening up a bit.
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An excellent pub if you like quality cask beer. Service is always very good and friendly.
Pub could do with some new decoration, especially the back rooms. One of the best real pubs in Liverpool.
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Doctor Duncans is one of the finest pubs in Liverpool. It is certainly the best place to go for real ales. It is not catered for young people, but I am 18 and enjoy the friendly atmosphere and great beer. My advice for any visitors is to try a Red Erick. Also if you like this you will probably like the Ship and Mitre which is not far from Doctor Duncans.
Simon Hewitt - 5 Oct 2004 22:28 |
Doctor Duncan’s attracts many real ale enthusiasts because of the huge variety of guest ales on offer (700 in the last 12 months) and the excellence of it cask ales, which won it the first Cask Marque accreditation in Liverpool.
A handsome pub, lovingly refurbished in authentic Victorian style, it lies at the heart of Liverpool's newly regenerated Queen Square area. The name commemorates Doctor Duncan, a relentless campaigner against poor living conditions in the Liverpool of the Victorian era, and the first Chief Medical Officer of Health to be appointed in the UK.
Wayne Storm - 27 Aug 2004 19:36 |
If you like the smell of middle aged men who only ever get off the couch to drink beer then this is the pub for you. Caters to an older crowd than the trendier pubs and sells the local Cains beers as well as a variety of guest beers. The best thing about it is the tiled side room which is worth a look if are interested in ceramic decoration.
seany - 25 Jun 2004 11:45 |
Forgot to mention that this pub accepts Euros. And coach parties.
palmwinedrinkard - 12 May 2004 13:33 |
This was an excellent pub when it first opened, slightly off the beaten track in Liverpool city centre. It's gone downhill a bit as it now tries to appeal to maximum number of bodies rather than quality, but that's more at weekends. It's still a good place to go in the afternoon.
It sells Cains beers and guests, which are best consumed in the back room, which was once the ornate reception to an insurance company, or some other wealthy Victorian commercial business. This room is very calming and invites you stay longer than you intend...
Haven't tried the food for a long time. Happy enough with the beer.
Handy for the station too, avoiding those horrible bars on the station concourse.
The toilets used to be part of an air raid shelter during the war.
Always busy and popular. (The pub, not the toilets.)
palmwinedrinkard - 7 May 2004 16:57 |
