The Victoria

Reviews

• Dave L.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 3 July 2026

  Famously the pub where slobby Red Dwarf protagonist Dave Lister was found in a box as a baby, the Victoria, or Aigburth Arms as it used to be known/will be known by the year 2155 when that event happens, is not actually worth a visit.
  
  With its low ceiling and clean but soulless decor, the pub falls short of being the place it has the potential to be. For a large, purpose-built tavern near a park, it sure does feel oddly claustrophobic. Lengthwise, the place is spacious enough but the drink selection isn't anything special and everything feels faintly tacky. Still, its place in pop culture at least is secure. This is after all the pub where Rob Grant and Doug Naylor concocted their idea for a sci-fi-sit-com, scribbling its details down on a beermat.
  
  By the time the last surviving human is discovered underneath the pool table here, the pub may have improved. I won't hold my breath though, and not just because it's 145 years away.