The Albert — Restaurant in Liverpool

Gonna start with the positive which is it's a great old school pub, the decor inside is fantastic. The location on lark lane is perfect, in fact it's probably the best pub in the area, and there is a great, and really lovely atmosphere on a Sunday evening with the open mic nights in the back room, where everyone including some really talented people gets up, and has a sing song.

I would like to mention on here through, that there is a few issues I would like to raise with the place which is that on a Sunday night there are these two really strange staff on the door who are constantly walking up down for no reason, while patrons are having a drink and a few times they have even followed people into the men's loo, and watched them do their business without even saying a word, or use the toilet themselves it's really odd.

Also there have often been occasions when last orders have gone at 22:45, and by 23:00 the door staff are demanding everyone leaves ten or fifteen minutes after they have brought a drink, and are shoving a plastic cup in peoples faces like they are trying to intimidate, people into leaving earlier.

Guys it's a great boozer with great people especially the staff behind the bar who were absolutely fab on Christmas day. But please sort the doorman issue out, it kinda ruins the otherwise nice atmosphere.

People who give you their business deserve to be treated better than that. Not to be harassed, and bullied out of a pub not long after they have brought a drink. Let people finish their drinks, and let the guys go to the toilet without being spied on by a creepy doorman.

They may just be doing their job, but they are doing...

I have been visiting the Albert hotel on Lark Lane for over thirty years as I'm local in fact just a couple of hundred yards away - great venue, great beer, shows sports what more can a person want!!!!!! Unfortunately they don't serve food at the moment but I have heard that the landlord is thinking of providing hot pies for sale to people enjoying a drink at the great Albert Lark Lane. post edit November 2021 I have changed my mind about this establishment its not what I thought it was they treat staff terribly ignore health conditions "Asthma Diabetes COPD Epilepsy ETC" so if you thinking of applying to work here be warned stay well away however not all Stonegate pubs should be tainted with the same brush. They have no interest in customers apart from numbers going to head office aka landlords assentation into higher office and they have no idea of what is going on locally as I found out personally and have no interest either which I found extremely troubling they "management" may seem friendly to your face but turn away and you get laughed at...

The Albert is a great example of a historic pub that doesn't really care that it's historic and is just getting on with selling beer to people. It's fairly priced, not that many people order food, bar service is always quick, there's a nice beer garden and they don't mind dogs walking through the pub to the garden if you're out walking the dog and fancy a pint on the way home. There's a host of regulars and it has a feeling that if you turned up every day, there's probably several interesting story lines happening between the regulars, bar staff and other Lark Lane characters at any given point. I've ended up having a drunken singalong with strangers in the garden here, I've sat in corners writing with colleagues, I've been for the pub quiz, I've been for beers countless times. A proper local pub replete with everything a local pub...