Some PR stunts involving mostly-topless women to publicise the opening of the Viva Brazil Churrascaria on Castle Street didn’t seem to go down very well last week, but some additional pictures from the launch the other night seem to show things going with a swing.
Liverpool girls go wild for Brazilian
Will Viva Brazil buck the business district yuppie-chasing restaurant trend? That remains to be seen, but we’re not entirely sure what to make of this publicity stunt, staged yesterday in time for a weekend opening…
Berry Street’s Tribeca pizzeria briefly becomes drive-thru
Liverpool Culture Blog’s paparrazzi desk has uncovered these images from Berry Street, where relatively new restaurant and bar Tribeca suffered an attack by a Ford Fusion earlier this week.
We’re not English, we’re Scouse
There are a few areas around the country that are fairly unimpressed by the England football team, but none so much as Liverpool.
A Girl’s Night Out – Rihanna at Club Bamboo
Straight from the camera of the Culture Blog’s roaming paparazzo is this image of Rihanna – whom I’m told is some sort of torch singer – entering Liverpool Club Bamboo, wherever that its.
What’s to be done with Concert Square?
The bars, the clubs, the violence and the whole sickening spectacle of Concert Square are symptoms of the problem, but Liverpool’s city centre should never have been allowed to get in this state in the first place.
Liverpool bans more bars for Lark Lane and Allerton Road
A rare good decision from Liverpool City Council, whose licensing committee has advised that no further licenses be granted for Aigburth’s Lark Lane or Allerton Road.
The Best of Liverpool 2009
I’ve asked a group of people well placed in media, music, arts and other general culture vultures to venture their high- and lowlights of Liverpool in 2009.
Liverpool Food and Drink Festival
Look, I’m a big fan of food. I made an aioli dip all by myself to go with some fish I fried tonight, OK?
I love food, but I didn’t love the launch for Liverpool Food Festival today in Sefton Park.
I suppose in many ways it was a victim of its own success, but the congestion in the enclosure and queues evident throughout the day weren’t a lot of fun.