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The Fly, Liverpool
Liverpool
L1 9AS
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6½ of 10) see review guidelines
Al Bundy left this review about Fly in the Loaf
Reopened after a refurb. Inside has been opened out even more with the removal of the upper level opposite the bar. The ledge and seats along the front windows have gone also. Approximately 4000 tellies to keep you up to date with the latest sport news. Still 6 handpull for proper beer and several keg taps around for those who like it fizzy, cold and bland.
On 27th November 2023
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Ian Mapp left this review about Fly in the Loaf
Quite an odd place - from the menu - all various types of loaded fries and burgers - and drinks offers, I think its aiming for students. Yet with no students around, this cavernous pub was empty.
Massive bar, with loads of tables and chairs - and more space upstairs. High stools in the Window to watch the world go by.
I automatically had a CAMRA discount applied (I'm not a current member) so my TT Landlord came to the odd price of £4.23.
GBG2023 but there's some serious competition around here!
On 10th July 2023
- rating: 5
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Brainy Pool left this review about Fly in the Loaf
I have given it so many chances, and I just cannot warm to this pub. Always a decent range of ales but the opened out interior just doesn’t feel inviting or comfortable and i inevitably have second thoughts and move over to the Roscoe Head up the road. I know I’m not the only one that feels like this. Give it a try, maybe you’ll feel differently?
On 11th March 2023
- rating: 5
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Fly in the Loaf
I haven't been into this pub for a few years now, but paid a return visit late on Wednesday evening. Formerly a bakery, this is a large pub which stretches back a fair way. Toilets are upstairs, along with a function room.
On the ground floor, the long bar has a number of handpulls and fonts for craft beers and more mainstream keg products. Okell's Bitter is the regular beer. Guests on our visit were Ossett White Rat & Red Centennial, Roosters Variation on a Theme & Mobberley 1924. Craft beers included Mobberley Loco Juice & Salt Jute.
Still in the latest Good Beer Guide, this is a worthy stop in what is a decent part of the city for pubs.
On 22nd April 2022
- rating: 6
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Gill Smith left this review about Fly in the Loaf
Called in this 2019 Good Beer Guide pub and found Okells beers plus four guests. Theakstons Shot in the Dark, Rat White Rat,Ilkley Summer, and Roosters Baby Faced Assassin. We chose the Theakstons which was fine.
On 21st August 2019
- rating: 7
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ROB Camra left this review about Fly in the Loaf
We've visited several times since my last review. Always a very good selection of beer and the staff are always excellent. I still think it's a great pub, despite the last couple of reviews. Maybe I'm still a bit hip. :-)) A excellent pint of Crate Pale this time around as well.
26/04/2013
Another pub we always visit when in Liverpool and this time was no different. Excellent choice of well kept beer, efficient and knowledgeable staff. It's a great pub, in fact it's Ms CAMRA's favourite in the city.
22/06/2009
Visited 3 times over a long weekend recently. Great pub with a decent selection of real ales, Okells + guests. We ate here one lunchtime and the food was good, it looked a bit pricey at first, but then we realised it was buy one get one free! The beer was excellent on all 3 visits as was the service. It was absolutely packed on the Saturday night, still got served OK though. One to visit.
On 22nd February 2016
- rating: 9
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Al Bundy left this review about Fly in the Loaf
Have to agree with Mr Quinno. I've never seen the appeal of this place, or Rigbys to be honest, despite the real ales available.
On 14th November 2015
- rating: 4
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Quinno _ left this review about Fly in the Loaf
Despite the magnificent exterior this in actuality a heavily modern Okells place, with four of theirs plus two guests. I tried one of each; Okells St Nicks (end of barrel) and Odyssey Evil Empire which was much better. Plenty of craft keg etc available. Long and narrow internally, a bit like a Spoons (I kid you not) with a raised area to the left. The large main bar area is for vertical drinking. Fairly blandly decorated (some wood panelling to the rear and tiled flooring excepted) the bar was the star, quite a striking charcoal black with some nice embossed finials and a very long marble-style bar top. Gripe point was the pub was stupidly hot, probably down to a preponderance of those crappy hipster lightbulbs on a wire that seem to be de rigeur at the moment; may have lost as much weight drinking my pint as Gary Lineker did against Cameroon in Italia 90. Decent enough beer barn but I’m struggling to see why it’s held in such high regard elsewhere, really. Preferred the other Okells house I sampled, Thomas Rigby’s.
On 15th January 2015
- rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about The Fly in the Loaf
Refreshed and renovated with a brighter paint job, new furniture and a new menu. They're also doing 1/3s & 2/3s of a pint but it's the same outstanding service and great beer. There's a slight re-branding with a Liverpool Born & Bread slogan, 1927 is emphasised as well. For my money the best pub in the city centre.
On 8th July 2014
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Fly in the Loaf
This is a large Okell’s pub that has been converted from a former bakery. The pub has a fairly open feel with the bar counter running down the right hand wall leaving a decent amount of space for vertical drinking, although the room is broken up by a few partitions and the odd stone archway. There’s a good deal of seating as well, mostly in the form of standard tables and chairs plus a few banquettes, with each corner of the pub having a raised seating area including one to the rear right which bizarrely includes an old church pulpit. The mosaic floor and nice wood panelled walls give the place more of a traditional feel when it might have been easy for the place to end up looking like a bit of a drinking barn. The bar back is particularly impressive with plenty of glasswork and a great number of bottles along its not inconsiderable length, as well as a few rugby shirts and a rugby ball. There is a second bar upstairs but this was closed on our midweek visit.
The Okell’s pubs I’ve been to haven’t really excelled in pushing their own beers and this place was no different, with just Okell’s Bitter available from their range, alongside Lancaster Black, Newman Bronze Beaver, Wapping Baggy Wrinkle Bitter, Brains SA and Salopian Oracle. I gave the Lancaster Black a try and thought it was a really good pint.
The pub seemed to be well set up and has a broad appeal judging by the mix of customers in on a Thursday night. One of several fine pubs in the area and certainly worth spending a bit of time in.
On 14th March 2012
- rating: 8
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