Baa Bar

If you want to inject a bit of cheese into your night out, give Liverpool’s Baa Baa venues a try! I would recommend this one over her sister in concert square, partly because it’s never and partly because it has a noodle bar attached to it, perfect for when you’re about to spew your hoop because you’ve had too much Sperm of Barman!
This place has a dazzling dance floor upstairs, in a private party area which I’m almost certain is free to rent as long as you can guarantee bringing a certain amount of people willing to get pissed on shit alcohol and rubbish shots for the night, don’t we all like to though?
They do the normal cheap bottle and a shot deal, and even have a wheel to spin and decide your drink for you if you can’t decide!

I’m writing this largely as an exercise in time-​wasting as, if history repeats itself, I thoroughly doubt it to be relevant a short time from now, for Baa Bar inhabits a building that has been home to at least 3 previous bars in my drinking years; all of whom lived fast and died young. (Except the Varsity: that was just shit.)
Firstly, The Symphony, which became immensely popular with students because of its £1 a pint nights, before it ran out of money because of its £1 a pint nights. Secondly, Geisha, a bar with its head so far up its arse, it couldn’t hear the failuretrain a-​coming.
Now, Baa Bar. If utterly average in every area is your thing, you’ll never leave. It’s much nicer and brighter, in both building and clientele, than the Fleet Street version BUT it’s in the absolute arse-​end of town. Draught isn’t cheap BUT it sells £1 shots, thus you get to concoct a sentence including French Kiss and Slippery Nipple without being slapped. There’s plenty of staff tending the lengthy bar BUT they’ve all been slighted with tunnel vision. The faux-​Japanese air of Geisha still lingers around in the guise of the in-​house WokIt restaurant BUT Pot Noodles are cheaper. The upstairs dancefloor is spacious and uniquely designed BUT would genuinely kill an epileptic.
I suppose it has a good a chance of survival as any previous, but I’ve no idea for whom this place caters. If your ivories are tinkled by an out-​of-​the-​way mishmash of contradictions, knock yourself out. At least, unlike the Concert Square manifestation, you don’t have to worry about somebody else doing it first.

When you think Baa Bar you think £1.00 shooters and then you think drunken fun and GOOD TIMES!
Baa Bar is the archetypal student bar it is bright and modern inside and the drinks are cheap. You can visit Baa Bar seven days a week and never be let down by the mix of contemporary music and the constant stream of student customers. The bars are long, there is an out door smoking area which is smart and also the staff are friendly as anything.
Student types in Liverpool should definitely get their selves down to Baa Bar it might be a bit mainstream but thats no bad thing at all.
Baa Bar gets the mix right every single time and its the perfect place to either start a night or even continue right on through.

I’ve drank in this place in all of its incarnations since it was the Varsity back in the uni days and will continue do so every time it gets new management until it is eventually the Organ Harvesting Clinic or the Rollerball Recruitment Office.
From its retina-​scorching dancefloor upstairs to the fact it’s in a more noticeable building, the new Baa Bar is a huge improvement on its previous generation which occupied a spot on Fleet Street. That’s not saying much though because that place was horrible. The problem with Baa Bar now is that it’s just too far away from central town. It’s a bit too raucous to start a night in but if you visit somewhere else before coming here, you’re going to be doubling back on yourself if you head anywhere else. And doubling back is only what confused gypsies and Neil Armstrong do.

On the merit of the Rawhide Comedy night alone, I give this Baa Bar 3 stars. Tuesday nights here see the make and mainly break of youngster/​amateur comedians, which if you have a dark sense of humour, £3 for a good old crash and burn or an unexpectedly funny newcomer is quite a good bargain.
The main appeal here is to students being around the corner from the campus and all, so if you’re not into the rowdy scene in an evening then you should probably give it a miss.
However, the décor of this Baa unlike the one in town is much more modern and well, new, give it a few years and I’m guessing it will look pretty much the same. But for now, the interiors are cool they have big booths if you’re in with a large group of mates and the shots as ever are cheap. Just don’t get ‘Brain Damage’ as I think enough of them will give you just that!

This is the second Baa Bar in Liverpool, further out of town towards the universities from the original hell hole on slater street. Different venue, same BS.
It has to be said that this BB is a more student orientated venue than its sister bar although that isn’t to say the regulars are somehow more sophisticated than the scallies you find at the other end of town. Shots are the order of the day in any of the Baa Bar venues and this one is no different only the aim of customers here is more likely to be as drunk as possible they can indulge in some random property damage follwed by a kebab unlike the other end of town where it will be GBH follwed by a kebab.

I wouldn’t usually venture into Baa Bar on a Saturday night but was invited to a friend’s 40^th birthday party and didn’t want to miss it. Luckily, the party was taking place in a seperate room on the first floor with it’s own bar and deejay. The room itself was nothing special but the curved dancefloor with strips of neon light made it look pretty cool and within an hour, people were throwing shapes to Lady Gaga and 70s disco!
I wouldn’t have thought Roxy Music would appeal to the JLS and Girls Aloud lookalikes in the main space but this didn’t stop dozens of them trying to gatecrash all night. Luckily, most of them scampered towards the Exit sign when they saw our friend Gordon dressed like Leah Bowery in a fabulous, handmade dress!
Contrary to other reports I’ve heard, both the bar staff and bouncers at Baa Bar were friendly and there didn’t seem to be any trouble kicking off. My only grumble is that the bar itself was abysmal. There was no Absolut vodka, no Havana club rum and no fresh limes. If it hadn’t been a special occasion I’d have definitely high tailed it somewhere else.

Unlike the Baa Bar by Concert Square, this one is a lot more classy and student oriented. The Baa Bar premise is simple: cheap drinks and a range of 40 shots for £1. And yes, you do get those idiots in who want one of every shot and the poor bar staff have to spend a good ten minutes concocting them all.
Which brings me to my next point — bar staff. Every time I’ve been in this particular bar, there always seems to be a senior member of staff at the end of the bar chatting away to another member of staff. And rather than pause the conversation and come to serve me, they ignore me and let the one other bar staff serve everyone who is waiting. This annoys me. Whenever I’ve worked at a bar, I’ve always understood that waiting customers is bad, and regardless of what else you’re doing, if you’re stood behind the bar when someone needs serving and everyone else is busy, you bloody well serve them. If you’re on your break, get away from the bar. There is also no sense of urgency with these staff, they just get to you in their own sweet time.
My issues aside, it is a decent bar and the comedy nights held on a Tuesday are brilliant and an absolute bargain at £3 entry. The music is varied, the décor fab and there is a big screen to watch sports on.