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In to Liverpool's city centre on a sunny Saturday afternoon for a selection of very different venues. I started at the Slug and Lettuce:(My picture came out all blurry - usually that happens at the end of a crawl, not the beginning - so the above is from 2021.)Most of the signage seems to call this "S&L", I wonder if I should record a name change?It was very busy at half one on a Saturday, is it the beginning of the Christmas rush already? I eyed the throng at the counter with concern, the young lady at the door recommended a less crowded counter in the cellar. She was right so I dodged the wait upstairs and ordered a Neck Oil. This required a change of barrel or something, "take a seat and I'll bring it over". She did, and then ejected me from my seat because the table was reserved. I could have argued that I would be well gone before the 14:30 reservation, but instead I followed her suggestion to an even deeper cellar clearly aimed at drinkers with no table settings and no…

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