It’s the battle of the big screens in our rundown of the best places to watch the Euros 2024 in Liverpool. We’ve chosen bars, pubs and food halls that are known for their live sports, casual food and match-day atmosphere. Rest assured, these places are going to have screens aplenty showing every goal, missed penalty and dodgy tackle in glorious HD.
Celebrate or commiserate (let’s hope it’s the former) with crowds of fellow-football fans, or book your own private area to enjoy each nail-biting moment with just you and your bezzies.
Make sure you bookmark this Guide because when it comes to any major sporting event, these bars are the place to watch them all.
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Ropewalks
Almost Famous Liverpool
Located in Liverpool city centre’s Ropewalks area, Almost Famous is a burger restaurant with bite. They serve up behemoth burgers, gargantuan sides and killer cocktails in a candy-coated setting.
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Book Now Princes Dock
Malmaison Liverpool Bar & Grill
Malmaison Liverpool Bar & Grill is much more than just another soulless hotel restaurant. With its dockside location and terrace, celeb fans and cool boutique vibes, it’s one of Liverpool’s most impressive dining destinations.
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Book Now Ropewalks
Pattersons
Fried chicken in a bar setting with a big emphasis on music, beer and cocktails – Liverpool independent Pattersons has hit on a winning formula here.
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Baltic Triangle
Baltic Market
Liverpool’s Baltic Market is the city’s first food hall, built on the redeveloped Cains Brewery site. It’s the sort of place where there’s always a buzz and a carnival atmosphere. Food comes courtesy of some of the city’s best street food traders offering everything from burgers and burritos to more refined European bistro-cooking.
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Vauxhall
Blackstock Market
Blackstock Market is a huge all-in-one food, bar and entertainment destination. It’s absolutely massive and incorporates Liverpool’s largest food hall as well as being the new home of the Hot Water Comedy Club (now the world’s largest regular comedy club space). Big laughs indeed.
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Baltic Triangle
Boxpark Liverpool
It’s a transplant from that-there London but at least Boxpark Liverpool is full of local food names. This food hall meets events space is home to eight or so vendors including, at the time of writing, Rose Street Falafel (from the founders of Maray), Madre Burrito, Pukht and Yoki Social Table and Yumcha. There’s also Shake, Crazy Pedros, Simply Salt and Pepper and Stateside Grill. Choosing between them is not easy.
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Liverpool City Centre
The Bierkeller Liverpool
The Bierkeller Liverpool is one of the best bars in Liverpool if you’re looking for a lively party atmosphere or somewhere to watch sport on the big screen – you can play it too with pool, darts, beer pong and shuffleboard.
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Business District (Liverpool)
The Denbigh Castle
The Denbigh Castle is a characterful pub on Hawkins Hey, one of Liverpool’s most distinctive streets. Dating from 1815, the pub has come full circle, starting out as The Denbigh Castle before trying a few different names then reverting back to the original in 2020 when it was refurbished by the current licensees.
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Ropewalks
Einstein Bier Haus
If it’s dancing, drinking and Deutschland-inspired plates of schnitzel and wurst you’re after, you’ve come to the right place. Described as a “day to night venue”, the two-storey Einstein Bier Haus serves up hearty food, great bier, on-screen sport and live music on buzzing Concert Square.
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Liverpool City Centre
McCooley’s Concert Square
This cavernous tavern on Concert Square fills up fast on weekends and match days. But there’s big screens throughout so even when it’s rammed, it’s not hard to get a good view of the sports action, and with three separate bars, getting served isn’t a trial either.
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Ropewalks
PINS Social Club
As the name suggests, PINS Social Club is more than just a bar – and it’s more than just a ten-pin bowling alley too, with pool, table tennis, shuffleboard and karaoke to keep you entertained, along with bites and burgers plus plenty of pizza courtesy Rocco’s Deli & Diner.
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Liverpool City Centre
Pogue Mahone Liverpool
Situated on the booze-soaked Seel Street, Pogue Mahones is a long-standing, much-loved spot for Saturday night shenanigans (or any night for that matter).
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Georgian Quarter
The Philharmonic Dining Rooms
This impressively ornate pub was built over 120 years ago and stands proudly on the corner of Hope Street. The Philharmonic splits off into separate rooms, each more show-stopping than the next.