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    Tap and Bottles

    5.0 (4 reviews)
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    Moderate noise
    Outdoor seating
    Good for groups

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    Lovely atmosphere, friendly staff, good service, amazing drinks plus board games available to play with friends. Would recommend.

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    Cafe D'Art

    Cafe D'Art

    5.0(2 reviews)
    6.7 mi
    ££

    This cosy little café/bar is carefully hidden away down a side street in the middle of Formby…read morevillage so could be easily missed. In the daytime, it is your typical little café, offering cappuccinos, lattes, various panninis and the like. However, it is of an evening when Café D'Art comes alive, as Formby residents flock there long after the other local drinking establishments close (they have late opening hours, ideal for those poor souls craving a replacement for Shorrock's Hill, Europe's number 1 hotspot). The drinks there aren't very cheap but by the time you get there you're usually too pissed to care, plus the beer they have there is pretty good compared to your usual pub draughts. The only negative is its size, meaning it can be full without really being that busy, which usually results in the action spilling out onto the alley and round the corner into the village but if you don't mind the squeeze then I highly recommend Café D'Art as a place to drink through to the early hours.

    There is a distinctly French theme to Formby's backstreet eat-and-drinkeries, well to two of them -…read moreCafe des Crepes and this little establishment. Its quiches, soups, pizzas and paninis all round here; mostly homemade (or at least constructed on site) and with judicious use of sundried tomatoes and oil. Dessert-wise it's spongy cakes, teacakes and sticky tarts - great stuff. Of an evening the little place goes full-on wine bar and serves a selection of beers, wines and spirits in a brassiere style. Of a weekend there can be a real throng of locals in here dissecting the week's events over a vodka tonic or a petite glass of beer. The walls of the establishment are hung with local art, usually of a surprisingly high quality and in a variety of styles, all of which is available for purchase. Definitely one of the best destinations in Formby for a drink, some light lunch or some art-gazing. Fantastic.

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    The Railway

    The Railway

    3.0(4 reviews)
    7.0 mi

    My local, for which it suffers and is praised accordingly. On the one hand they do serve hand…read morepulled ales (with a personal favourite Timothy Taylor's Landlord always on tap) and decent grub - thick steak burgers, hearty sandwiches with chunky mustard mayo, surprisingly delicately flavoured curries. But, on the other hand it suffers from familiarity - I know which chairs are unevenly legged, which tables will get oppressively warm once the place fills up, exactly what time they will dim the lights and turn up the music 'for the evening crowd'. It's simply hard for me to get very excited about The Railway - but then, the more I think about it this is probably the best thing about the pub, it's absolute consistency. The beer garden has a nice atmosphere in the summer too, with people sloshing glasses of increasingly odd-flavoured ciders into their faces and taking advantage of the few hundred hours of sunshine we manage each year. Lovely stuff.

    Until fairly recently I frequented The Railway often, going there at least once or twice a week,…read moremore if we were going on a night out. Recently though, with the emergence of The Grapes as a popular pub in Formby, The Railway has somewhat lost its charm. I guess the thing about The Railway is its reliability and familiarity - it doesn't really change, the same people are in there every week - and whilst it is its steadiness that makes it so comfortable, it is also its downfall. Despite this, I still find The Railway one of the better pubs to go for a drink in Formby, although it is quite expensive for drinks (even the cheapest pint is about £2.50). The pub itself is fairly large and has a vast array of seating, including a lovely outdoor area with heating lamps for those who choose to brave those colder evenings. The food there is also very good, with weekly curry and steak nights that are very popular. I would also recommend the Monday night quiz for those of you who prefer your quizzes a bit easier (not that I've ever won it, mind) but avoid the confusing Wednesday night one, which is a normal quiz mixed with bingo style rules. A good, reliable pub that will still be around long after the others have fallen from popularity.

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