White Star, Liverpool

As you walk down Mathew Street and into the heart of tourist land ,your heart sinks at the tawdry array of bars,clubs and lock ups that must feature on millions of holiday snaps (facebook walls in the modern idiom).However The White Star is an oasis and has rejected any temptation to pander to it's location.After all it was here before The Beatles.The tiled exterior gives way to a large front room with a central bar offering 5 handpumped ales,a few from Bowland and changing guests.My Bowland Gold was indifferent but that was more the brew than how it was kept in the cellar.The highlight is the back room with wonderful buttoned down red leather upholstered benches and many prints of the White Star fleet.Elsewhere there is a strong boxing theme to the pictures and even an old telephone alcove has survived without a quiz machine being installed within.Apparently Beatles numbers are never played on the sound system. A scouse institution,this is surely the only place worth drinking in around The Cavern Quarter.

Great little pub. Both Ales that I tasted were in superb condition.

Lovely 2 roomed pub in 2011 Good Beer Guide well described by previous visitors. Enjoyed the Leyden Citra in the busy back room.

Fine old pub with a partially tiled exterior that is adjacent to the living hell that is the Cavern Quarter. It's a bit of an oasis from the madness around but it still suffers a bit from the scrote element, especially beggars and CD/DVD sellers, however the landlady gives them the heave ho as soon as they are spotted. The front bar was packed when we called in with a bunch of post work idiots who wouldn't move away from the bar. Four beers on tap that I could see, although there may have been more. I had a pint of the Bowland Sawley Tempted which was great. We moved into the back room, to get out of the way. This room has red leather settles and loads of pictures/memorabilia of the White Star line (no surprise there then). It's OK in here and it's definitely the best pub in the Cavern Quarter.