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The Cornmarket, Liverpool
Liverpool
L2 7NT
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Will Larter left this review about The Cornmarket
This building was originally a boarding school in 1792 but has been a pub for a lot longer, and was joined with the Bulls Head in Moor Street in the 1960s, but it seems that entrance is no longer used. There is some nice wood panelling in that part of the pub. This is a popular place for food at lunchtime, with about thirty or forty people in by the time I got served with my simple half of Black Sheep Best after 12:30. The server was working flat out, taking orders, pouring drinks and carrying plates of food from the dumb waiter to tables. My beer was not very good, but with non-specific faults that I would have had trouble explaining even if I had the undivided attention of someone knowledgeable about cask beer. £2.80 for a half of beer that barely scrapes NBSS 2 is the price we pay for calling in to random pubs. I left my drink unfinished.
On 13th January 2026
- rating: 4
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Strongers . left this review about The Cornmarket
Sat off Fenwick Street on the Old Ropery, the Cornmarket is easily missed by those not in the know. The entrance opens into a bar area with a wooden floor that looks like it’s been smothered in a tar like resin, black and shiny. To the right past a short beer shelf with stools is a door to an enclosed square patio with café seating that is looked over by adjacent office blocks. Back inside, the long serving counter runs up the right-hand wall, standard and premium keg products were available alongside TT Boltmaker and Black Sheep from the two hand pumps. At the far end of the bar is a carvery counter that was empty during my recent Monday afternoon visit. To the left of the entrance is a carpeted lounge cum study with a mix of tables and period seating, including red leather sofas and armchairs. An impressive fireplace with burner is found in the middle of an equally impressive panelled wall up the left and at the rear, on the other side of a central staircase is some more seating, including green leather high backed booths up the left and a piano against the rear wall. The central stairs lead down to ill-maintained toilets with no soap and up to an area that was out of bounds. At the rear of the bar a door opens into another bar where a short L-shaped serving counter sits on the wall to the right. In here are brown leather banquettes and booths, I think at busy times this acts as a dining area. The pub was very quiet and the service was dismissive, I think the barman would have rather been elsewhere. This certainly feels like an historic pub, and it is worth a look, but I think it needs a little TLC, and a more interesting draught selection.
On 21st July 2025
- rating: 6
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Moby Duck left this review about The Cornmarket
A pub with a pleasant and classy interior however the beer range is pedestrian and I settled for a Black Sheep Bitter, not really my thing but well kept all the same, worth a look but wouldn't be on my repeat list.
On 10th June 2024
- rating: 6
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ROB Camra left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
Hidden down an alleyway (Old Ropery) off Fenwick Street, this isn't a pub that many people stumble across. It's now one large room, but used to be two separate pubs. There's a well presented beer garden at the rear, which is why we headed for here on a very sunny Monday afternoon recently. The pub itself is quite ornate in an understated sort of way, with loads of interesting things on the walls. Sadly the beer selection isn't great with only Wainwright available on our visit. Still it was very warm so I had a pint of Estrella. It was so pleasant in the beer garden with both sunshine and friendly and chatty punters that we ended up staying for another. Well worth seeking out.
On 27th July 2023
- rating: 7
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peter ashworth left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
The Cornmarket Hotel was originally built as a boarding school in 1792 which survived the blitz in 1941 and is now a public house and used to be 2 separate pubs till the 1960's with the Bulls Head being the other.
Found this pub OK on my Friday evening visit and certainly made a pleasant change from the nearby noisy pubs.The pub is quite spacious with 5 cask beers and a beer garden to the right on entry.Certainly worth a visit only if it is only to admire the oak panelling in the room on the left which was originally the cigar lounge oak panelling from a 1930's Liverpool cruise liner.
On 25th August 2019
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Brainy Pool left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
a really good pub, if not particularly good beer. it has one of the shiniest floors i have seen in a pub and loads of nice areas to sit. they were all packed today but I had a good chat in the beer garden. food appears to be canteen style and the smell spread all around the place.
On 6th October 2018
- rating: 7
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Graham Coombs left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
An excellent pub with two sides; the smaller side in Moor St in only open on weekdays so was not visited. It connects through to the main side in Old Ropery which has a quite splendid interior. There is one large room, sectioned off with polished wood and glass and liberally strewn with shipping memorabilia. One long bar down the side, with some interesting half booths opposite, and at the far end a piano, which the barman periodically used to great effect. At the back is a beer garden. A good range of beers, including Ubu, Wainwrights and others and condition was excellent. One of those increasingly rare pubs where you feel at home as soon as you walk in.
On 17th July 2018
- rating: 9
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Al Bundy left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
This is a plush 2 roomed pub hidden away behind James St Station and easily missed. Its a lovely interior that unfortunately has a poor selection of real ales. However it is a pub worth seeking out. There are 2 entrances at either end of the pub but if there's a function on one maybe closed. Its too grand for me to describe so I won't.
On 29th February 2016
- rating: 7
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Toby Jug left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
An old stomping ground when I worked in the city centre, lunch time pint and food then back to the desk. Warm atmosphere all day, weekends see an older crowd in the afternoon, but a lovely place to sit chat and drink, with livelier bars just a stones throw away if you want to up the pace.
On 1st March 2015
- rating: 7
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Peter Rydings left this review about Cornmarket Hotel
Another of Liverpool gems a lot bigger than it looks nice beer garden you could soon walk past this place
On 8th August 2013
- rating: 10
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