Bar 25

You'll find this spot holding down the fort on Lark Lane, doing exactly what a good neighbourhood bar should do – serving decent drinks without making a song and dance about it. The kind of place where you can rock up at 11am for whatever reason (we don't judge) or settle in for the long haul until 2am on weekends. What works here is the lack of trying too hard. No craft cocktail manifesto, no Edison bulbs screaming 'look how cool we are' – just a proper local that happens to stay open later than most. The crowd reflects that: a mix of Aigburth locals, Lark Lane regulars, and people who've wandered down from town and decided to stay put.