WOOLTON

PubBeerCommentsLocation
Cello's (Chardonay's) (Cafe 49a) John Smith's / 1664, Foster's, Miller Although branded as a cafe bar this is really just another pub with a Friday night disco. The inside is like a barn, with iron roof beams and a wooden floor. Three different names, but the place remains exactly the same, with an odd lack of atmosphere.
Last visited July 2007.
Allerton Road / Church Road
Coach and Horses (Coach and Horses) (Negresco Deco) Hand pumpBateman's, John Smith's / Carling, Foster's The Coach and Horses was a large pub which seemed to drift over time from up-market comfort to a pool hall full of kids.
2007: Negresco Deco, on the other hand, was a very posh piano bar/restaurant with dark, atmospheric decor and a nice black and white tiled floor in the bar area.
2009: It's gone back to being a pub again, and they've got real ale! The nice decor remains, and the menu looks good, but it was deserted on a Saturday lunch-time when I visited.
Last visited March 2009.
Kings Drive / Speke Road
Cobden (Cobden Vaults) Hand pumpDirectors, John Smith's / Foster's In 1999 I remarked on the extremely nice, totally fake, wood beam interior complete with cart wheel partitions etc. More recently I found a total transformation, to a very nicely done modern interior. The quality real ale remains. Very quiet on a Saturday lunchtime.
Last visited December 2008.
Quarry Street / Cobden View
Coffee House
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Boddingtons, John Smith's / Budweiser (US) A rather plain interior, lacking in atmosphere. Reputed to be the oldest pub in Liverpool - The building is dated 1641.
Last visited 2006.
Woolton Street
County Court Hand pumpBlack Sheep, Hand pumpGreene King IPA, Tetley, Worthington / Carling, Carlsberg, Foster's, Stella Plain but very well looked after two bar pub. A friendly pleasant atmosphere on a Saturday evening.
Last visited July 2007.
Quarry Street / Gladstone Street
Derby Arms Hand pumpBlack Sheep, Hand pumpDirectors, Tetley / Foster's, Stella A large pleasant knocked through corner pub very nicely decorated and looked after. On a visit in 1999 I fixed the TV!
Last visited February 2009.
Menlove Avenue / Allerton Road
Elephant (Famous Elephant) (Casa Del Cocodrilo) Hand pumpBombardier, Hand pumpDeuchars IPA, Hand pumpOld Speckled Hen The Famous Elephant:
Before its refurbishment in late 1998 this was a large lively one bar pub with a nice interior and some fine ale. Afterwards the nice interior remained but the ale had gone - The pub was now aiming at the younger market, with plenty of lager and only keg bitter, although there were still two hand pumps on the bar.

In 2007 this became Casa Del Cocodrillo, a rather posh restaurant/bar, retaining and improving on the interior. The elephant pub sign remains outside (I'm told it is listed), but the elephant's head from over the door has disappeared.

In late 2009, after a period of closure, the Elephant pub returned, keeping the fine decor of the restaurant and serving a range of decent ale. The pub food menu looks good. There's a function room upstairs.
Last visited December 2009.
Woolton Street
English Rose Falstaff, Tetley The interior of this curved building seems much smaller than the outside would suggest. A pleasant lounge and a bar with LSTV and dart board. A large room forms the "cool cubs club" play area. Feasting Fox food.
Last visited 1998.
Halewood Road / Mackets Lane
F.A.R.G.O. Originally a function room behind the Famous Elephant, then an Italian restaurant called Il Bambino Elephanti, and now a Twin Peaks themed whiskey bar and grill, I'm told.
Not visited.
Woolton Street
Gardeners Arms
GBG
Hand pumpBlack Sheep, Hand pumpCains, Hand pumpDeuchars IPA, Hand pumpguest / Carling A beautifully done out friendly two-sided pub serving fine ales.
Last visited December 2008.
Vale Road / Gladstone Street
Grapes Tetley / Carlsberg A well cared for and nicely decorated one bar pub with real fires. Some rather nice Walkers etched glass.
Last visited July 2007.
Allerton Road
Victoria John Smith's, Tetley / Carling, Carlsberg, Stella Partly knocked through but retaining a separate front room, the interior of this one bar local is nicely done out with wood panelling.
Last visited July 2007.
Quarry Street / Pit Place
Village Inn Boddingtons A very pleasant quiet one bar pub. The fake decor is particularly well done. Hidden downstairs is a large, nicely decorated disco/function room which has a late licence on Friday nights, when it is busy with a mixed clientele. The above was written in October '98. A more recent Friday night visit found the downstairs closed and the upstairs with a disco and a late licence very lively and popular.
Reports in 2008 tell me they now have real ale as well!
Last visited 1999.
Quarry Street / Rodick Street
White Horse
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Hand pumpCains, Hand pumpguests Nice decor perhaps a little over cluttered with horse brasses and the like in this busy friendly pub with one bar plus two small side areas. Friendly staff serving fine ales.
Last visited July 2007.
Woolton Street