{"id":153289,"date":"2025-06-02T23:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153289\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T23:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:10:16","slug":"liverpool-city-centre-pub-shuts-for-four-weeks-as-refurbishment-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/153289\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool city centre pub shuts for four weeks as refurbishment begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pub has has become increasingly popular in recent yearsDan Haygarth<\/strong><\/a> Liverpool Daily Post Editor and Regeneration Reporter<\/p>\n

16:46, 02 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Excelsior pub in Liverpool city centre(Image: Iain Watts\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

A Liverpool city centre pub has closed and will reopen in four weeks following a refurbishment. The Excelsior on Dale Street announced on X (formerly Twitter<\/a>) today that it has shut its doors for work to begin.<\/p>\n

In a brief message, the pub’s account said: “The doors are closed and the refurb has begun. See you all in four weeks.”<\/p>\n

In December, the ECHO spoke to The Excelsior’s manager Rachael O’Donnell<\/a> as part of our pub profile series. Asked about working at the pub, she said: “It’s loads of fun, I really enjoy it. It’s like my social life as well – I love it.<\/p>\n

“We’ve definitely picked up, Christmas time<\/a> is when we go really, really busy all the time and through the week. We love our fireplace as well – that’s a big talking point in here in the winter.<\/p>\n

“It’s a great sport for Christmas, we have Christmas<\/a> parties booked out, you can hire the back room for free. We have all sorts of parties.<\/p>\n

“We’re also a massive Everton<\/a> pub, so Everton games go absolutely massive in here. We’re busiest at weekends – Everton games are our biggest days. Christmas time is busy and at weekends we get really, really busy quickly.”<\/p>\n

The Excelsior has become a go-to spot in the city centre for Toffees – along with The Denbigh Castle on Hackins Hey<\/a> and the newer arrival of The Lock Up on North John Street.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TheThe Excelsior pub in Liverpool city centre(Image: Iain Watts\/Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

About her pub’s football connections, Rachael said: “We’re a family of Blues. Matchdays are great, you can’t move in here on matchdays.”<\/p>\n

“People think this end of town is more of a midweek thing, but it’s definitely not. We get a lot of the students in at the weekends now, because they just live up the road.<\/p>\n

“We get a lot of them in the night-time before they are going out. We’ve got a really good regular base as well, even though it’s a city centre pub, we’ve got a lot of regulars and it just seems like word is spreading everywhere.”<\/p>\n

There is more to The Excelsior than football, however. A pub<\/a> is only as good as its beer, but they are renowned for theirs, as Rachael explained.<\/p>\n

“Our ales go really, really well”, she said. “We’ve won a few awards, we’re now part of the Timothy Taylor’s Champions Club and fewer than 500 pubs have got that.”<\/p>\n

“Our Guinness<\/a> is excellent here. We’re very well known for our Guinness here. We’ve got really rave reviews and it’s definitely a point of pride.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pub has has become increasingly popular in recent yearsDan Haygarth Liverpool Daily Post Editor and Regeneration Reporter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,2349,15650,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-153289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-city-centre","13":"tag-liverpool-pubs","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114616298620240182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}