The Liar's Club - Manchester

Me and my homies needed some libations while we gossiped and caught up so I decided this was a great place to go after dinner. Plus, I read this place was known for its many types of cocktails so I wanted to check it out! The bar is well decorated and looks like it was taken from a set of the cheap version of Gillian's island or something. The decorations can be considered tacky, but come on... It's a tiki bar! I give props to them for their effort. They have a big cocktail menu so don't come here for just a glass of wine or beer... Nope, you're in the wrong bar for that! When we ordered our drinks, we found out that there was a 2 4 1 deal, so we ended up with one extra drink...score! We ended up ordering the zombie (it had fire so I thought it was cool) and three others I can't remember... Haha. All I remember is the drinks were strings, some were well mixed while others were eh it was ok... Just tasted like alcohol. Though the bar is cool, it does have a smelly funk to it so prepare to close your nose especially if the place is crowded...the drinks are cool, pretty creative but the art of making yummy cocktails is kinda lost because the proportion of the juices and alcohol isn't quite well done. Fun place to go to though if you don't care about that stuff!

It's hard to believe that a little over a year ago I had never been to The Liars Club! What a fab place. I've been many many times since and now I live so close by, it's one of my local bars on a night out. This underground tiki themed dive bar is small, but always has the best atmosphere. The drinks are all yummy, mainly rum based and the cocktails are a delight to watch being made and to drink! The bartenders in Liars are very friendly and are always up for a laugh. I do find that Liars Club is better during the week than at a weekend the weekend gives off a different vibe, and gets a little too busy for my liking but rest assured you'll have a good night in here no matter when you visit.

The best place in town for a zombie; the drink with a big big kick! Mixed up in this alcohol filled cocktail is a variety of rums and fruit juice served with a passionfruit half and set on fire for your enjoyment! Warning: you will only need one of these bad boys as its enough to pickle you! As for the tiki bar itself nice and chilled out place with comfy seats around the edge and plenty of decor to match with your bamboo huts! Downside: the later it is in the night means the toilets are never in tip top condition! Liars is always on my hit list at the beginning of a good night!

This 'dive ' bar as they call it is a nice change to your usual bar in the area. It would be more at home in the Northern Quarter than where it is. You enter through a staircase down an alley. You could easily miss it if you don 't know it 's there...Look out for Crazy Pedros next door which the Liars Club also own. As you walk down you are hit with a nice sound of smooth regae music which is good if you 're after a chill out with a few mates. The dimly lit seating areas are probably not to everyones taste but they work for me. The beer here isn 't up to much but why go to arum bar for beer? Cocktails are where it 's at here. There is an extensive cocktail list which I 'm about half way through yet to have a bad one. My favourite up to now is the Zombie just watch your hair as they set it alight! I doesn 't usually get busy till gone midnight but they do open at 5 and offer 2 4 1 between 5 and 9 Sunday Thursday which is good. I usually head here on a Sunday when it is more chilled out. Don 't pass this place by.

Oh liars club, you are a double edged sword, One of my places to go in town but I also have a little part in the back of my head going 'this is going to be a long (hazy) night ahead ' Having been introduced the Tiki bars via Keko up in the Northern Quarter to find basically a larger version of Keko so close to my office in spinningfields was awesome/lethal. Good layout if maybe a little on the dark side (don 't want flood lights but maybe tap the dimmer switch up a millimetre or two), never seems to get heaving which is a plus. they do other drinks beyond rum cocktails, I have no idea on the other drinks though, i 'm there for the Zombies, someone hands my a cocktail in a pineapple pint glass they 've just set alight with a blowtorch why would I want anything else... oh wait there is one other thing I would want, a wooden chest with several half-pint pineapple glasses set a light with a blowtorch for anyone getting lost by the above statement, the Captains chest is pretty cool from a showmanship point of view, a wooden Chest that just about fits on your table, filled with cocktaily goodness set on fire like the zombies. It 's a straight ton that you 'll hand over at the bar but it works out ok if you 're used to paying cocktail prices in general