Penny Lane Wine Bar

I’ve worked in restaurants for three years and I go to restaurants, pubs and cafés quite often. I know what a decent dining experience should be. I loved eating at the Penny Lane Wine bar.
I have drunken at this establishment once before but in this occasion there were three of us on a beautiful Sunday afternoon with a hefty appetite. Whoever runs The Tavern Co. seemed like it was a good idea to stop serving in the early afternoon so we went to the Penny Lane Wine Bar.
We ordered nachos as a starter, the Chicken Supreme, Chef’s Own Burger and the Stuffed Peppers. Despite that there was only one member of staff working on the bar, taking orders and serving the food for what seemed like an unexpected surge in clientèle for that typically quiet day of the week, we got our food served with blissful timing. The nachos were HUGE and interesting because they were a style I had never eaten before, but the mains blew us away. For a slightly higher price than your average café, you got top-​quality and gourmet presentation food which tasted as amazing as it looked.
I was thoroughly pleased and so much so that I was glad I told the lady who served us to keep the change when I went to order drinks and food.

We all know and for those who don’t, this particular area of the city is now infinitely famous thanks entirely to the Beatles song of the same name. However it could be argued that this place was established before the tourist circus came into town.
Don’t be alarmed thus if you have to meander your way through a photo snapping coach party from the visiting Magical Mystery Tour. The interior here carries a warm, chillaxin, rustic charm. Terracotta walls reflect soft simmering lighting and the rustic nature of the place is linked to the worn out furniture.
The punters are a mixed bunch in here as you can imagine from shoppers, families and students to young professionals. This place is perfect for lazy sunday brunches with a newspaper. Food is served all day in the eating area and a finger menu is available in the bar area from 6pm-​9pm.
Night time the place comes alive and strip it to the bone as Ruth correctly points out it really is more of a pub than a wine bar. None the less a good haunt for drinkers alike.

Why does the phrase ‘wine bar’ still exist? It sounds so fundamentally tacky and yuppie-​ish I’m surprised the Word Police haven’t stormed them all and battered the signmakers with truncheons. Penny Lane Wine Bar would be first in line. The reason? It makes it sound like it’s caving in to peer pressure.
I shall explain. If you want to go drinking on Allerton Road, you’re going to be in for a dull night. There’s nothing there but restaurants, card shops and estate agents. What the place needs is a good old pub, or maybe ten. Some must have surely existed. When did they all go?
Penny Lane Wine Bar is the one that comes closest to reclaiming pubdom. It has a worn and wooden, yet unassuming and welcoming interior. Yeah, it can get crowded but this all adds to the charm. As I said, the thing that lets it down is that name. If it was called the Penny Lane Arms for instance, I’d be there like a shot.

More pub restaurant than wine bar this place is very pleasant to visit. Food prices are very reasonable with main courses around £7 and deserts fom £2.50. Bottles of wine range from £12 to £40.
The old fashioned exterior somehow looks a bit wrong but I can’t put my finger on why perhaps its the double awnings or use of neon that doesnt fit. The high metal fence is not immediately welcoming.
No where in Liverpool is complete without a widescreen TV thats always on and as they other reviewers have commented this place certainly benefits from going not over the top on Beatlemania.

Oh Penny Lane Wine Bar how you impress me with your unpretentious pubbish interiors with a lovely picnic benched garden area, your selection of wine– cheap for the allerton area, your friendly attentive go-​that-​extra-​mile staff, but mostly with your specials board.
I chose sea bass on a bed of green beans with roasted new potatoes crisped to perfection with cracked black pepper and salt, dressed with a tomato and chorizo sauce. And wow I chose well.
Mouth watering yet? It should be, this was one of the most delicious dishes to pass my lips in a long while! Well worth £8.50.
Add a bottle of wine to split with a friend, the mellow atmosphere and warm surroundings and you’re on to a winner.

I’m going to say that this is probably the best place for a drink along Allerton Rd. Unlike many of the other café/​bar/​restaurant places in the area, Pennly Lane Wine Bar has stuck to a no nonsense approach and forgone any pretensions to being something it’s not and it is a formula that has remained popular with the locals for many years.
The WAGs, gangsters and scallies can keep the tons of other venues along Allerton Rd, this place is a wine bar in name only. Yes there is the obligatory Beatles guff on the walls as I have come to expect more and more as I take in my surroundings — they really are bloody everywhere in this city — but the locals have come to accept that they are only there for the tourists and it isn’t as if their music is on a loop here.
Friday evenings have a good buzz about them especially in the summer when people fill out the small front patio and rear garden as people flock in after work.

Penny Lane is obviously famous due to the Beatles song of the same name, what would Liverpool do without the Beatles? The Penny Lane Wine Bar is a great rustic little wine bar, which does have a pub feel to it.
It is usually full of locals meeting up with friends or people grabbing an after-​work drink. The atmosphere inside is completely different to outside as The Magical Mystery Tour stops at the bar as it is a part of the Beatles heritage and you will often have to find your way through the group snapping away, which gives a false tourist feel to the place.
It has a very homely ambience, with the wooden furniture making you feel like you’re in a country pub rather than a city wine bar.
As well as providing a great place for a glass of wine, or whatever your favourite tipple is, the wine bar is also popular for food. Food is available all day and the bar menu is available between 6pm and 9pm. I strongly recommend the breakfast on a Sunday morning.

Great place for a date, nice and lively with a good mix of people

This is a nice little niche to crawl into on a cold day as there is a decent fire usually on the go in the middle of the room. Otherwise, it’s also a good place to go for a bit of food in the daytime of a good old knees up in the evening.
Definitely a locals bar, this place is the type where you walk in and have a chat with whoever’s behind the bar before going over to sit with your mates. There’s a good selection of drinks especially, as the name would suggest, wines. Having said that, I would think of it as more of a pub than a wine bar. I don’t think I’m alone in that either.
The pub grub is decent enough though when I went in around Christmas with a mate he was delighted to find they were offering a 2 course chrimbo dinner for less than a tenner — the reason being that it wasn’t that good. Serves him right for being a cheapskate in my opinion! The gravy was like someone had forgotten how much Bisto they’d added so they put the same again in — you could stand your spoon up in it. Still, the chips I had were lovely, and generally the food is good.

Living just off Penny Lane, this place is my local and it’s absolutely fantastic. It’s called ‘Penny Lane Wine Bar’ but it’s a mix between a pub and a wine bar. It’s not as posh or expensive as the bars on Allerton Road but it’s definitely on the nicer end of the pub scale. It’s an extremely popular place for both students and locals alike partly because it has great drink prices and a very friendly atmosphere. I quite like coming here during the day, getting a coffee and doing some work. It’s got a bit of a modern day rustic feel to it but there’s plenty of space to sit and stand.