Celebrate your graduation at one of these Liverpool restaurants

Book a table for your graduation celebrations and mark it with a real sense of occasion at Barnacle. In fact, enter ‘Graduation’ in the booking notes and a glass of Henner’s sparkling English wine will help toast your success.

Celebrate graduation in Liverpool with Frederiks. It’s in exactly the right location, in the shadow of the Anglican cathedral and bookings are now open for graduation dinners.

Enjoy a more relaxed graduation meal at Le Viet Social. Top quality pho and authentic South East Asian street food provide a sense of occasion that doesn’t feel overwhelming.

Convivial and homely, La Famiglia is one of the best Italian restaurants in Liverpool. It’s another option that provides a welcoming atmosphere and food that everyone will enjoy – no-one is going to foist a bone marrow ice cream on you as an amuse bouche here.

Liverpool’s award-winning, fine-dining restaurant The Art School brings together inventive Modern British cooking and an impressive historic setting. It’s definitely grand enough for a special graduation meal and doesn’t veer into experimental territory.

If you want to celebrate your graduation Texan-style with smoked hickory barbecue meats and bourbon on the rocks, this is the place.

Cargo is the sort of restaurant that knows how to make a meal seem special. It’s not dizzyingly fancy but is a solid mid-range choice. It has stunning views from Princess Dock which give it a sense of occasion. The menu specialises in seafood but with enough crowd-pleasers for everyone.

A memorable meal in a memorable building with stunning waterside views. Graduate in style at Liverpool’s fanciest Chinese and consign all those memories of instant noodles to your student past. Grandeur not grot lies ahead of you now.

Liverpool’s top Japanese restaurant is the place to go if you love sushi and you love the thought of someone else paying for it. Etsu is a bit of a departure from standard graduation destinations but there’s no point in doing the same as everyone else if that’s not you.

Hawksmoor Liverpool is in the beautiful Grade II-listed India Buildings. It’s probably the best place for steak in the entire city and is suitably fancy for a graduation celebration meal with a bit of grandeur.

Manifest is a restaurant serving up the cooler end of fine-dining. If you’ve always fancied dining out at one of Liverpool’s best restaurants, now’s your chance to get your folks to pay for it.

Nord is one of Liverpool’s serious dining destinations with proper food credentials. It strikes the perfect balance between cool and contemporary as well as being accessible. They’re great with graduations and give out a free glass of fizz to all the new Bachelors and Masters dining there.

Panoramic 34 is a place to feel like you’ve arrived. This chic destination turns a celebration meal into a bit of a spectacle. People go for the views but the Modern European cooking is actually very good.

For a milestone meal, you want spectacle and Seaforth offers total opulence in every way. If you can’t be lavish when you’re celebrating graduation, when can you?