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Bar Essentials: The Hightown HotelA good place to park your bike, but what about the rest of the craic?

Beatles-themed cocktailsHeather Smith tries fab four beverages at the Hard Day's Night

Five Bars...for late finishersLiverpool has hundreds of restaurants, but do the workers go home in the wee smalls? Not if they're like Thomas Byrne

Malmaison cocktail of the week: The BrambleThe blackberry just got a lot more interesting

Bar Essentials - BierAngie Sammons finds the Old Ropewalks pub is all new and 'on-message'

Bar Essentials: The Baltic FleetWith pies, pints, posers and a brewery on site, this is still a Wapping good boozer

Bar Essentials: The Philharmonic Dining RoomsThat most talked about pub has just had a makeover. So what's the score?

Philharmonic pub gets £300,000 makeoverDining room reopens for first time in years, but gastropub dismissed

Five bars ... with a backyard oasisIt's hot in the city, so where do you imbibe when you get a shade thirsty?

Everyman Bistro, the final countdownIt's the last ever drink at the mother-ship this Saturday. Even the road is being closed

Neil Sowerby's June wine tips 16/06/2011Our wine scribe on Provencal pinks, Chile, South Africa covered and affordable Claret. Plus Naked Wines comes to town

The Rail Ale TrailEast Lancs Railway wins pun of the week award

Bar Essentials: AlohaFeeling in limbo? There's always a rum do at the city's fun-foaming Hawaiian bar

Bar Essentials: Liverpool One BridewellWe meet the people who are great behind bars in Liverpool's newest pub

Alexander's the greatKatja Driver checks out the craic at the Chester's favourite jazz and comedy spot

Bar Essentials: The River View, WoodsideHeather Smith finds good food, real ale and fairy lights in this reinvented dockside pub

Cocktail capersMalmaison gets into the spirit of drink mixing lessons

Bar Essentials: Peter Kavanagh'sToxteth's finest hostelry is still standing well proud

Top five bars to.....end a relationshipIt's not where you start, it's where you finish, and you're going to finish on top - with our completely unscientific guide to the city's best dumping grounds

Bar Essentials: The Pen & WigPubs we have felt it necessary to adjourn to already this week

Beer festival in historic St Anthony'sReal ale beano this week refreshes body parts others have never reached, writes Mike Chapple

What a swell party...Everyman Bistro celebrates its big four-0

Bar essentials: The Fly In The LoafLiverpool Confidential's lowdown on pubs and bars that we've found ourselves in this week

Bar Essentials: The PilgrimLiverpool Confidential's lowdown on pubs and bars that we've already found ourselves in this week

Bar essentials: Ye CrackeLiverpool Confidential's lowdown on pubs and bars that we've found ourselves in this week

Bar Essentials: The Old Post OfficeLiverpool Confidential's lowdown on pubs and bars that we've found ourselves in this week

Bar Essentials: The Crown HotelConfidential's lowdown on pubs and drinking dens we've already found ourselves in this week

Bar Essentials: The Little GrapesWhat's black and white and red all over? A little gem in Roscoe Street with a slice of cucumber

Bar Essentials: Coopers Town HouseWelcome to the house of fun. Liverpool Confidential's lowdown on boozers we've felt it necessary to visit this week

Bar Essentials: The White StarConfidential's lowdown on pubs we have felt it necessary to visit this week...

Bar Essentials: The ElephantLiverpool Confidential's verdict on boozers it has felt necessary to visit this week – in this case twice, to make sure

Bar Essentials: Django's RiffBars and pubs Liverpool Confidential's writers have already found themselves in this week

Bar Essentials: The DispensaryLiverpool Confidential's lowdown on pubs and bars that we have already found ourselves in, this week, as the administrators march into Cains

Bar Essentials: The ElephantLiverpool Confidential's verdict on boozers it has felt necessary to visit this week – in this case twice, to make sure

Bar Essentials: The Beer House, Contemporary Urban CentreThe lowdown on the latest licensed establishments we have visited and the tinctures to be found therein

Bar Essentials: The Little Grapes, Roscoe StreetWhat's black and white and red all over?

The Ex-factorAA Grill takes shelter from the wind tunnel of Old Hall Street to discover who or what holds the pulling power at The Exchange

The smoking ban three months on: a freedom gained or one stolen?

The smoking ban three months on: a freedom gained or one…Cat Johnson loves the ban, Charlie Butterworth hates it. Who’s right?

Super FlyExclusive: Fly In The Loaf crowned Best Pub in Britain by BBC listeners

The pub-grub rubThe hostelry that strays onto gastro-turf may do so at its peril, says Michael McIlvenna after a trip to the Blackburne Arms

Breath of fresh airOne-time nicotine addict AA Grill isn't the only thing in Liverpool to be born again, as he discovers on a trip to Rigby's

Make 'em laughIn a bid to show the licensing people that it wants to clean up, not close up, Baa Bar has employed a special weapon in its smart and sophisticated makeover. However....

Time up for Baa Bar?Some say its the best bar in Liverpool, others call it Chav Central. Now police have had three bags full of antics at the Baa Bar and it is crunch time