The Art School Restaurant

You'll find yourself in one of the most beautiful dining rooms in the city, where Victorian architecture meets contemporary elegance under those famous skylights. Paul Askew has created something genuinely special here – this isn't just fancy food for the sake of it, but proper seasonal British cooking that actually means something. The lunch menu is surprisingly accessible for somewhere this polished, while dinner is full theatrical fine dining territory. The service strikes that perfect balance between attentive and unobtrusive, and you can tell the kitchen genuinely cares about where their ingredients come from. Yes, it's expensive, but when you're celebrating something important or want to remind yourself why Liverpool's food scene punches so far above its weight, this is where you come.