Crown Hotel, Liverpool

Extraordinary looking “art nouveau gone mad” pub next to Lime Street Station. The inside is a little more restrained but the ceilings alone are worth a visit. There is a large main front bar, a wood panelled lounge with an amazing ceiling at the rear and a function room upstairs. There are many handpumps in situ serving mainstream beers like Tetleys Cask, Deuchars, John Smiths and occasionally slightly rarer beers like Youngs Special, all at competitive prices. Availability of the cask beers is however variable, sometimes there will none on but the quality is generally good. The staff too can vary in quality and knowledge. Sadly the low prices do attract more than a fair share of crazies, scallies and weirdies but there never seem to be any resulting problems.