Your Guide to Liverpool Shopping, Restaurants & Businesses

From authentic old pubs serving bar meals, fast food, and familiar chains, to high-end fine dining, Liverpool has an array of options for eating out.

Traditional Cuisine
Most traditional restaurants and chains can be found in the Hanover Street area of the city, with a few more around Church Street, including fish & chip restaurants and pubs serving bar food.

High-End Dining
Head to the Georgian Quarter for high-end and unusual restaurants, and over to the other side of the city centre, around Victoria Street, for fine dining.

Casual or Trendy Spots
Closer to the train station and up onto Bold Street, you’ll find some quirky restaurants, world foods, and more unusual places to eat, including vegetarian and vegan eateries.

Food Markets
The city centre has a number of food courts, with stalls serving world foods, but for a traditional food market, Monument Place holds a fruit and veg market. Even further out of town, in the Kensington area, there’s a specialist fish market.

Liverpool has become a major tourist destination over recent years, offering tours, museums, galleries, and historic areas with important cultural landmarks.

• Beatles Museum: You’ll find displays and references to the Fab Four all over town, but this dedicated museum has the largest collection of Beatles memorabilia in the world.
• Liverpool Cathedral: High up on St. James’ Mount, the biggest cathedral in Britain features stained glass and stunning architecture, plus a café and shop.
• Walker Art Gallery: With a room dedicated to sculptures and a large amount of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, the gallery offers wide-ranging displays and is free to enter.
• Royal Albert Dock: The regenerated docks are now an area for restaurants, boutique and specialist shops, and the Tate Modern.

Baltic Triangle
A former industrial area of town, now a hip hangout for creatives and cool folk, with workshops, cafes, and a skatepark.

Georgian Quarter
This residential area of upmarket townhouses is where you’ll find the cathedral, traditional pubs, and the Institute of Performing Arts.

Cavern Quarter
Beatles fans flock to this area of town for a peek inside the famous Cavern Club and Beatles-themed pubs.

Blundellsands
Journey up the coast to the sand dunes and windswept beach with Anthony Gormley’s art installation ‘Another Place’, a series of figures looking out to sea.

Ropewalks
This artsy area of town features cool cafes and music venues, and is also where you’ll find the city’s Chinatown.

Public Transport
There’s a good bus service to get you around Liverpool, though they become more infrequent the further out of town you want to go. The train service from London takes around 2 hours, and just half an hour from Manchester.

Driving Directions
It’s a little longer to drive, at around an hour from Manchester along the M62, and around 4 and a half hours from London, up the M40 and the M6, and this route does involve a toll road.

Walking/Cycling
Liverpool is a very walkable city. Although there are different ‘quarters’ and areas to the city, it’s easy to get from one to another, and you can walk all the way from the train station at the top of town to the waterfront, easily. There are a few cycle paths in town, but it’s not a very cycle-friendly city and traffic does get heavy.

Parking within the city centre is easy and there are plenty of options in long-stay and short-stay car parks. Once you venture out to the surrounding areas and the ‘quarters’, it gets more difficult, but these areas are easy to walk to from car parks in the city.