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The Bookbinder, Liverpool

Pub added by Al Bundy
2 Lark Lane
Aigburth
Postal town: Liverpool
L17 8US

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Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) Add Review see review guidelines

Ian Mapp left this review about The Bookbinder

Is it a pub, cafe, bar or eatery? Beans on Toast - on an extensive breakfast menu are £7 - so that may help you make a decision. RAR "French Style Cafe" fits the bill nicely. If they had beans in France.

The beer is far more reasonable - White Rat for just over £4. Excellent condition - but with every table setup like a cafe - including one that had a baby having a nappy changed on top of it (Jesus!) - I decided the street was a better place for drinking.

A million tramps cannot be wrong.

On 15th October 2026 - rating: 6
[User has posted 1926 recommendations about 1886 pubs]

Real Ale Ray left this review about The Bookbinder

Another pub in the ever expanding 1936 Pub Co group. They now have 5 pubs in the Lark Lane area and seem to be doing well here. This is a French style cafe/bar with an upstairs seating area. Very busy on my Monday visit. Beautiful old bar on the right hand side of the side street entrance. 3 handpumps with a Lilley's cider and 2 ales, White Rate & Salopian Shropshire Gold, priced at £4.30 a pint. Has those annoying candles on tables, it's trendy with plants hanging from the ceilings and those American type ceiling fans. There's also an upstairs seating area, which we were chucked out of as the staff were preparing it for a private function. It's nice enough but not really my sort of place.

On 28th September 2026 - rating: 7
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Al Bundy left this review about The Bookbinder

A small corner cafe bar. The place serves 6 keg beers from 2 T-bars and 3 handpulls for real ale. Today's real Ale choice was Beartown Best Bitter and Chapter Dead Mans Fist. It's fairly typical of a cafe style place and the eye watering £4.40 for a pint of cask nearly makes you call out for a strong black coffee. But at their prices drinking up and leaving is the more sensible option.

On 24th May 2021 - rating: 5
[User has posted 3487 recommendations about 3390 pubs]