Here's when historic Liverpool pub The Monro is reopening and what to expect

One of Liverpool’s most historic and best-loved pubs The Monro will be reopening in August after months of restoration and remodelling.

The Monro, which had been closed since October last year, was taken over by The 1936 Pub Company.

It owns a string of other traditional pubs in the city centre including The Vines on Lime Street, The White Hart on Hope Street and The Red Lion on Slater Street, as well as several venues on Lark Lane.

Now a new design for The Monro, in the style of a 100-year-old Dublin pub, is almost ready to be revealed.

The 1936 Pub Company has announced it will reopen on Thursday August 8, with the ground floor, first floor and beer garden areas complete.

MJ King from the company’s operations team says the revamp has breathed new life into a building that’s hugely popular in the city.

The former Georgian merchant’s house, dating back to the 1700s, has undergone a complete refit.

But one of its best-known features still remains and another wow factor one has been added.

MJ says:

“We love a big open fire so the one at The Monro was a gift for us. It’s one of the things which people associate with building and so it’s been very much cared for by us over the past few months; it’s been fully renovated, cleaned, and we’ve done a lot of decorating around it so it’s even more of a focal point.

“The two first floor rooms will also have lovely working fireplaces and some big TVs for watching sport.

“Downstairs, the other real statement is the bar which has been made from beautiful reclaimed wood and covers pretty much the entire wall. There’s an entry way, where we’ve used some old wooden columns from the original building to make a centrepiece, then you walk in and there’s lots of seating around you and you just hit the bar that runs all the way down.”

There’s a quirky new feature which drinkers can discover for themselves, that opens up the space between the ground and first floors.

The frontage has been given a new look too, retaining the familiar façade but giving it a distinctive fresh pale terracotta paintwork.

And at the back, The Monro now has an extended beer garden that’s been designed to work all year round.

“At the back of The Monro there was a large garage and a small courtyard area between that and the main building,” explains MJ. “We’ve made the courtyard into a really nice open air beer garden and the garage has been gutted and converted into an indoor/outdoor beer garden space with the roof still intact.

“We’ve also installed two log burners back there so once it gets to colder weather we’ll have heating out in that area too.”