One of the best pubs in Liverpool. Friendly staff. Lively and traditional Ale house. Great selection of ale and a drink to suit all types of boozer!
On our regular Easter visit to Liverpool we paid several visits to the Diss and on each occasion we found the hospitality first class. But what I must also add is the White Rat really made it exceptional. What a beer! Knocks spots of the rest.This is the best pub in Liverpool. Great beer served by great staff. Tasted White Rat and Marble Logonda which spot on.

I am quite perplexed by the tone of the comments on this page, however after a recent visit things begin to fit into place. The barman and clients seem to have changed radically. The place was eery, there was a tangible hatred of anyone whose face was unknown. Most regrettable.@ILooklikeme Are you trying to be funny there or do you always talk like a know-all cunt?@dishwad. I too have lodged a complaint, as I would for any other objectionable comments I encounter. Furthermore I suspect you are a faker, and not a person of colour as you infer. Your comments come from below the level of dignity that is inherent in the well established and diverse communities that enrich this country. Good bye.

First time I had been in this pub but it won't be the last - what a fabuous place! Just round the corner from Hamilton Square station and as you enter the whole ambience of the place hits you! It was Friday evening and the bar was busy but I got served quickly (Brimstage beers appear to be regulars but there were guests). Tremendous decor with all the militaria and othe bric-a-brac (I like pubs with tons of pictures and bric-a-brac not just a few here and there) High-ceiling/raised bar area and of course the barber's shop at the back - must be unique in the UK? Well worth the short trip across - or under - the Mersey to find this excellent hostelry.This is still our most common port of call this side of the Mersey. We visited here on Wednesday evening. It was quiet, as it often is on a weekday evening. Brimstage Trappers Hat was on, as usual. There were also 2 guest beers - Salopian Oracle & Peerless Pale. The cider was Newtons Yarlington Mill. Not too far from the Birkenhead tunnel. So it doesn't take long to get into the centre of Liverpool from here.Very quiet last night but then it was a Monday.
Pleasant barmaid.
4 ales available, 2 from the local Brimstage Brewery, 1 from Salopian ans 1 from Roosters.
I had Brimstage 'Trappers Hat' which was well kept.
Two large screens showing Newcastle vs Fulham game but without sound.
Decent background music was playing at a reasonable volume.
Not often I get in here now that the nearby Pacific Road Arts Centre has closed (shame on Wirral Borough Council) but definitely a pub to pop into if nearby.
I noticed a sign advertising a room upstairs - the Spectacle - which was available for hire and that also hosts live music. I hope it is a success.

Always a fun place in my experience.

Last time I went, a young lady near us complained she was too hot. So my tall, well-spoken buddy kindly offered to open the antique lead glass window. The whole casement came off its hinges in his hands, and he was left holding it. "Good Lord! I seem to have dismantled the entire apparatus" he remarked. The scouse girl decided he was just weird on hearing this, and moved away...What can I say that has not been said before about The Phil? It is stunning and is a "must visit" establishment when in Liverpool. Beer wasn't too bad though I have had a naff pint in times gone by. Anyway, go there and enjoy (the Gents toilet must be the most photgraphed loo in the world!!)The meeting place for me and my pals yesterday. A pleasant atmosphere and an enjoyable visit. Various ales available. I had something from the Harviestoun brewery. Can't remember what it was called but it was a tasty IPA.

Not a comment really just a word to correct what "saido" wrote, he was obviously in The Rosco which is opposite The Dispensary and sells the most wicked pint of Doombar you can imagine. It also has a dummy Elvis which moves about the pub. Racing is all day on the telly. I go in there when it's raining and Dave across the road is still mopping out. It's curious but over the last couple of years, it has consistenly got worse but I still patronise the place so that I can say to Dave across the road that I've had a Doombar in the bar of doom.Another Liverpool classic - plenty of beer on when we went (twice) and a very friendly atmosphere inside. Jennings and Tetley's are regulars but there was a nice selection of other ales - we did also try the Big Bog beer which was fine. Multi roomed pub which has been a CAMRA favourite for years and really is well worth a visit. Part of a good little pub crawl in this part of the city.Went in here midweek and drank some continental lager or other, might have been San Miguel. Fine. They advertised Doom Bar outside and on several posters inside - all out, no real ales on at all. No blonde either through pump still on bar. Lady serving was quite apologetic and friendly, customers all seemed a laugh, but when the first few attemts to get a drink are met with apologies, it isn't brilliant. So, fine for what it is, but it doesn't seem to know quite what it is, given it is a pub supposedly liked by real ale crowd but out of real ale, a community pub with TVs on and music loud. I wouldn't go back when next in Liverpool, but did experience very friendly service, and it seemed a neat, clean and friendly pub.

The Globe has had a bit of a refurb, as McRoyal states. But the old character is still there. It's the same clientele and the beer range is still not as good as many Liverpool pubs. But it's still worthy of a quick stopover if you're out shopping or have spare time before catching a train. Beers on yesterday lunchtime were Liverpool Organic William Roscoe, Robinsons DIzzy Blonde & Unicorn, Sharps Doom Bar & Black Sheep Best Bitter. Busy and lively as always.I love it - great little pub which has just recently had a sensitive refurbishment but still has cheery staff and good beer and an ever changing clientele as well as many regulars. Right opposite Central station and near the main shopping areas. The floor still slopes; the rooms are pleasant and cosy (especially when it's busy) but service is good and the Liverpool Organic "Bier Head" was excellent as was the 1960's music on a Sunday night! Note the huge Map of the World in the back room (only spoilt by a shelf and some lights screwed to it!). Highly recommended.We got to the Globe on a quite frosty lunchtime and got stuck into a pint of Howell's Frosty Bells and a pint of Bateman's Rosy Nosy which were both superb. We sat on the dias in the front window and had a marvelous view of the slope. I can inform you that the toilets hace been completely modernised and are now a pleasure to use. The Christmas decorations are beautiful and the clients as friendly as ever.

A classic little pub with some fine fittings and a large range of ales. A couple of minutes walk from Mooorfields station and right opposite the old Liverpool Exchange station. Friendly staff and they even provided free sarnies! Always worth a visit to admire the architecture and enjoy the ambience and beers.I hadn't been to the Lion for a while. So I strayed here for a swift one between Rigbys and the Ship & Mitre on Saturday. The pub was busy with people watching the football. But service was quick and the beers and the pub itself were just as good as ever. Available on Saturday was Pennine Real Blonde, Caledonian Deuchars IPA, Wharfebank Celtic Red, Copper Dragon Golden Pippin, Rat Cheating Rat, Ossett Silver King, George Wright Lion Returns & Beartown Bearly Literate. Ciders were Westons Old Rosie & Traditional Scrumpy. Always worth the detour off Dale Street.Excellent pub, first class range of ales and cider, plus all the usual lagers etc. Friendly and efficient staff. Beautiful old building. Had planned to do a pub crawl of the area and ended up staying here hours. Had sky sports on as well, know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but was a bonus for us football fans.

After the Dispensary and the Ship & Mitre, I staggered into the Vernon on Saturday evening. The Ship still has a better range of beers. But you can always rely on the Vernon to have a decent selection itself and unlike the Ship & Mitre, you can generally find a seat. Beers on were Boggart Rum Porter, Peerless Triple Blond & Whiteout, Liverpool Organic Johnny Handsome, Sandstone Onyx & Brains The Rev James. Cider as always was Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon. Consistently good and worth its place in any Liverpool crawl.A basic 2 room corner pub. Good selection of ales which are well kept. Their down side is the numerous large tv screens.Definately a worthy candidate for the Dale Street Pub Crawl. Normally a good selection of ales available in two bars (main and rear). The footy is shown here and in fairness its not a bad place to watch it, the barstaff are quick and friendly and you should be ok for a table/seat if you get in handy enough.

I'm still not the biggest fan of the Fly in the Loaf. But there's enough other really good pubs around that it inevitably ends up in the middle of a pub crawl of this part of Liverpool. Yesterday, it was our third port of call after the Dispensary and the Roscoe Head. Beers on were Arighi Bianchi 150, Liverpool Organic Kitty Wilkinson Chocolate & Vanilla Stout, Lancaster Blonde & 1842 Pilsner, Cotswold Spring Stunner & Okells Bitter.Nice place. The lovely barmaid took a pub call whilst we decided on our drinks but asked first if that was OK, and apologised for the delay in coming back to serve us. She told us to take a seat whilst the beer settled and she would bring our drinks over.

A lovely pub with great service, but slightly expensive.Sunday lunch with a pint or two of real ale was just the ticket in this wonderful pub. We sat at a table right at the end under the pulpit and scoffed our roast pork, roast potatoes and broccoli and it all went down a treat. This area of town is so rich in fine pubs that you are spoilt for choice.

Saturday evening - absolutely rammed so we had to move on which was unusual for us as this is one pub we always visit when in Liverpool. I can recommend it though for the beer range and the food so another visit will have to wait but will not be forgotten.This is a cracking pub and well worth a visit if you're in Liverpool City Centre. It's away from the shops but is a short stroll from Lime Street and the bus station. It had a great selection of real ales and ciders when I went that included several American and 'continental' beers as well as a changing number of some excellent English brews: the Salopian Stout was especially fine. The service is brisk and not unfriendly. With its woodlined walls, the decor is pleasingly reminiscent of a Scandinavian chalet. The quiz (Thursday evening) was doing a roaring trade. The food looked and smelled like standard pub fayre and was resaonably priced but I can't vouch for its quality as I had none. I will definitely go again when I return to 'Pool. Perhaps I'll eat there, I'll certainly sample some more beers.In here for the first time in a while at the weekend. It wasn't quite as busy as usual, despite it being a matchday. However the usual problems with slow service remain. There always seem to be plenty of staff. But instead of serving customers, they are stocking fridges and shelves or putting glasses onto shelves. The beer and cider range was good as usual - Wellcross Tower Hill, Quantock Ginger Cockney, Wilson Potter, Newmans Noble Swan, Brew Company Hop Ripper, Elland Fireball, Downton Pumpkin Ale, Moorhouses Ruby Witch, Leadmill Rapture, Williams Brothers Black, Arbor Oyster Stout & Plain Ales Incognito with also Spendrups Pear Cider, Addlestones & Westons Old Rosie. Still a nice pub with a decent beer range. But no longer my favourite pub in Liverpool. Try the Dispensary or the Roscoe Head if you want to get acknowledged within 10 minutes of entering.

Called here on Friday, got charged £1.75 for half a 3.8% bitter which was no better than average. Good thing that they don't factor in transport costs to their prices!We finally got onto the brewery tour and we were treated to a very illuminating history of the brewery by a very pleasant young lady who later took over the role of barmaid to serve all those on the tour with their free pint of the tipple of their choice. We enjoyed the tour very much and the pints we supped beside the fire lit fireplace just like in the days of yor. On an early Friday evening, the joint was jumping and we thought we wouldn't be able to get to the bar, but believe it or not the throng opened up as if Charton Heston had raised his staff and we proceded through the tunnel to the promised land. The magnificent array of Cains beers was like a Caravaggio. The Cains bitter just the job.

Hadn't been to Rigbys for a while. With the Ship & Mitre, Vernon and the Lion nearby, it rarely gets a look in. Nevertheless, I ventured there yesterday. The place was just as busy as ever on a matchday and the interior is still the same Rigbys. Beers were also good - Nutbrook Responsibly, Clearwater Devon Dympsy, Okells IPA & Bitter, Jennings Dark Mild, Lancaster Blonde & Bays IPA. Although sadly they no longer serve a real cider, having scrapped the Thatchers Cheddar Valley due to lack of sales.I went for Sunday roast only to find there where no Yorkshire puddings on it.
After it took me ten minutes to pull the waitress away from the weekly horoscopes magazine of the Sunday Mirror I asked where's my Yorkshire pudding, answer "Oh the chefs off today so there is none". So if your thinking of going it seems you need to check who's working,You may get what you pay for or you may not!Strange how a CAMRA GBG listed pub refuses to give a taster of their ales.Bar man said they were not allowed to do this.Not a very good way to encourage customers when all other real pubs are happy to. See the Lion for how a bar should be run. Having said that there was a good selection of beers and mine was well kept.

Must have got this one on a bad day as the beer selection was very poor for a Good Beer Guide pub (GK IPA being one of them. Fantastic exterior and of course it is very handy for the station - maybe next time?After a visit to Queen square to see the reindeers we were amused when one of the ales on offer was aptly named Reinbeer, so obviously we felt it our duty to try it and it turned out to be well worth it. A pint of Liverpool Organic was also excellent. The Crown is a must for any visitor to Liverpool and I can't think of any other place with cheaper and well kept real ales.Nice friendly welcome off the barmaid when we entered having just got off our train next door at Lime Street. Had a well kept Marstons EPA. Interior was a splendid design. Customers were a mixed bag and very friendly. Certainly better in here than the JDW across the road. Will be our first port of call next time on Merseyside.

A good range of hand pumps (Phoenix Hopsack especially) and I didn't suffer the bad service that one recent reviewer did, quite the contrary in fact. Its shabby appearance might put some people off but it's a friendly place. And if you want to hear Purple Haze, Dazed & Confused and
Paranoid in the space of 60 minutes, you know where to go!First time in this pub on Tuesday night. After a couple of hours of supping Hydes Original and Phoenix Hopsack which was in excellent form amongst the rockers and superb jukebox I made the mistake of ordering a pint of the Geek Brewery 'Geek Unique'. It certainly was unique in that it was rancid, I mean really sour and totally undrinkable. I politely told the barmaid who told me it tastes like that and no one else had complained ! I tried again and was told again it was not 'off' and that she would not change it ! Unreal ! All my drinking years i've never been spoken to by anyone behind a bar as obnoxious as this. I left the beer and ordered another pint of Hopsack which she left with a 1 and 1/2 inch head which i had to ask to be topped. She went ballistic and snarled at me for some reason...... An appalling experience. Another pub to avoid and spread the bad word about unfortunately.......
Will stick to 'The Globe' in future which was excellent all round.We arrived just as the doors were opening and they were still cleaning up from the night before so there was a niff of stale beer coupled with cleaning fluids. However, we were warmly greeted and the beer was fine (sometimes the first beer out of a pump in the morning can be a bit dubious but ours were OK). It is a bikers/heavy metal bar and I could imagine a different atmosphere on a Saturday night but we found it fine and enjoyed a pint before moving on. (the large baguettes looked good and they do a good range of foreign ales as well as the real beer)

Massive place with all the usual Spoons offers and problems (lack of staff). In fact although it was only 10.30 they appeared to be shutting up shop and trying to get us all out! A couple of guest beers available but I think I can survive without having to go back here again.Without doubt probably the worst JDW that I've been in on my festival crawls up and down the country. We went in as it appears in the GBG 2013 and how it made it in there is beyond me. Besides the usual fodder ie) Abbots etc... there was half a dozen handpumps dispensing ale. After a seemingly endless wait, we got served by a blonde lady dressed differently to the staff -so I guess management or supervisor- and when we asked for a pint of two different ales, her reply was a curt "Only got that one on!" My mate asked her why she had not turned the pump clips round she just sneered. We had a pint of Abbots instead and swiftly left the place. Full of rough and ready customers and certainly not as friendly as the Crown where we first went after getting of the train. Out of 80 or so JDW I've been in it is definately the worst!My first time in Liverpool for over twenty years and found this to be a decent Spoons, had a couple from a brewery called Lymstone. Both pints were excellent and well priced at two quid. Very handy for the 82 bus which goes all the way to John Lennon Airport.