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United Kingdom
Dialling Code
+44
Currency
£
Time Zone
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The Brink
£15
(15-21 Parr Street, tel: 0151
703 0582) Liverpool’s first dry bar, a social
enterprise staffed by recovering alcoholics, serves
food achieving that rare combination of quality and
great value, from chicken salad on home-baked
bread for £2.95 to excellent battered fish and chips
for £6.95.
Delifonseca Dockside
£30
(Brunswick
Quay, BrunswickWay, tel: 0151 255 0808) Martin
Cooper is regarded as a culinary demi-god in
Liverpool and his cooking here on the waterfront
brings comfort and joy with the likes of mutton
and spinach curry with spicy dhal and shin of
Welsh black beef braised in locally brewed porter.
Caveau
£50
(59 Allerton Road,Woolton, tel: 0151
428 6966) Located in the lovelyWoolton Village
conservation area, about 20 minutes’ drive out of
the city, Caveau is an intimate, low-key restaurant
with rustic features and a reputation for consistently
accomplished French cooking.
The Roscoe Head
(24 Roscoe Street,
tel: 0151 709 4365) Full of character and
frequently full of characters, the Roscoe is an ambient
antidote to the decibel-rich bars around it. It has the
Liverpool
distinction of being in every edition of the drinkers’
bible“The Good Beer Guide”.
The Kazimier
(4-5
Wolstenholme Square, tel: 0151 324 1723) There is
nothing quite like The Kazimier; arty, atmospheric,
knowingly cool, fabulously eccentric.With bizarre
themed nights and artists fromaround the world
including, in September, the rootsy and hauntingly
harmonious Simon Felice Group fromNewYork.
Dafna’s Cheesecake Factory
From
modest premises south of the city centre,
Dafna’s Cheesecake Factory has taken on a cult-like
status among its worldwide legion of fans, to whom
accommodating staff will airfreight any of their 10
divine varieties (240 Smithdown Road,Wavertree,
www.dafna.co.uk).
Liverpool One
When you’ve had enough
of the 130-plus shopping opportunities in
Europe’s largest urban regeneration project, you
could try sampling Liverpool One’s leisure-based
pleasures which include indoor crazy golf featuring
swamps and live active volcanoes, a 14-screen
cinema complex and 20 restaurants, covering much
of the world’s cuisine.
Gerry Corner
Fly from
Alicante,Amsterdam, Barcelona,
Belfast, Berlin, Bodrum, Bordeaux,
Brussels, Faro, Fuerteventura,
Geneva, Gibraltar, Grenoble, Ibiza,
Innsbruck, Isle of Man, Jersey,
Krakow, Lanzarote, Lisbon, Madrid,
Majorca, Málaga, Malta, Menorca,
Naples, Nice, Paris (CDG), Rhodes,
Salzburg,Tallinn
FromtheAirport
Visit the Europcar desk
for special car hire rates.
Taxi
Pre-book your taxi at
easyJet.com.A local taxi costs £15.
Bus
The 500 departs every 30
minutes for the city centre.
Tickets: £2.80.
TRAVEL INFO
@
writer’s tip
“
Liverpool’s
Imperial Arch,
50ft tall and
embracing 200
dragons, is the
largest outside
China and
was shipped,
piece by piece,
from Shanghai.
It’s well worth
a look.
”
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