Beware of the steps.....especially afte a long pub crawl. Decent range of beer on tap and bottle

Visited in januar 2012 on our pre-winter-ale-pubcrawl.. A bit tricky to find, placed in a basement, 5 steps down.. Mostly a place for younger people, therefore you can much more served than beers :-) while listening to loud music.. ( uhhh I sound like an old grumpy lady now... ) Not that huge numbers of beers, but we had a couple from the local Liverpool Organic Brewery..

In the evening the place is full of students having fun. In the morning you can very good and cheap english breakfast with real ale at 10am (2010).

This place is close enough to the university that it’s usually full of students. Offers the usual cheap commercial stuff, along with a couple of good real ales and (last time I was there) a decent dry cider. Gets very busy towards closing time - don’t count on getting a table inside if you’re arriving late! Good value, though a little less laid back than I prefer.

The Pilgrim is in a basement, entered down a covered cobbled alleyway. It has the kind of grungy alternative feel I associate with Camden in the 1980s (but perhaps actually more like Liverpool in the 1960s) and thus a kind of charm too. There are bare brick archways filled with painted mirrors, mainly with a Beatles theme, and every table in the booths along the walls has its own small wall-mounted juke box. I suspect they don’t work anymore but we didn’t test them out as there was already rather loud music playing. Somehow this all fits together nicely and despite the cheap drinks obviously intended to bring in a younger crowd (wine, Carlsberg, double vodka and red bull at knock down prices) I liked the place. What’s more, the choice of beer on the four hand pumps wasn’t bad and the beer was fresh and well kept. (Visited 16 January 2012).