I can’t agree with most of the other reviewers and come to see the plus points to Slaters. Although well established on Liverpool’s pub circuit for, well, decades I assume, it is not the place I think you can find irony in. Slaters is just a place to get smashed and there’s nothing wrong with ‘tying one on’ as Jack Nicholson once said, now and again but it’s something of a myth that this place will present a totally friendly scouse welcome as they don’t really do ‘students’ here — i.e. anyone not wearing a trackie and slurring words through a mixture of being pi***d and having a ridiculously exaggerated scouse accent. The karaōke, which is a prominent feature is typically a warbled affair sung by swaying old men with, well if it was your granddad you might laugh and give an encouragingly patronising smile but is pretty criminal stuff!
Liam M.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Liverpool, United Kingdom
It calls itself the college of knowledge not really sure why but there you go. Slaters is a popular student haunt as its simple fairly cheap and theres always a crowd of students frequenting the bar so the atmosphere is good. The place is sort of semi Irish but seems a little confused almost as though someone began building a bar and never got to finish the job. It is quite shabby as a whole with the toilets being a particular low point. These things do not detract students from Slaters though and why would they who cares about the hygiene of a place when they have deals on jagermeister and the epic creation of quad vods. The music is okay a mix of indie and cheese really and there is an ancient juke box if music this millenium is not what you fancy. To criticise Slaters though is to be fussy its simple and if your a student definitely gets the job done.
Helen T.
Rating des Ortes: 2 Liverpool, United Kingdom
I’m still going to give this place 2 stars even though it is ever so slightly more pleasant(less of a cesspit?) than it’s partner in crime next door The Faculty. Again, Quad vods are the order of the day and you need to be rip-roaringly drunk, preferably not able to recognise a) yourself in the mirrored wall, b) at the stage where every drink you buy you drop onto the floor because your motor skills are way out of the window. If at said stage, then enjoy this grimey student bar for what it is, a dive, but one which is top of its class as such. To graduate from ‘The College of Knowledge’ I fear, is to understand what it’s like to get your stomach pumped. However, if you want to go crazy without spending too much then get learning!
Dave L.
Rating des Ortes: 2 Liverpool, United Kingdom
Infinitely more pleasant than the Faculty next door, Slaters is still crummy enough to warrant two stars. It does exactly what it sets out to do(i.e. be the dive bar to end all dive bars) but it’s still the kind of place you need eighteen litres of ethanol swamping through your arteries before you can begin to enjoy it. The clientele are a mixed bunch. One half resemble the cast of Skins, the other look like Billy Elliot’s dad. Infamously, the home of the ‘Quad Vod’, when I got one of these drinks, I found it to be half a single at best, while my mate had half a bottle of Asda Smart Price vodka in his coke. I got the feeling they’d just sloshed whatever amount of alcohol they felt like into the glass, with the inkling that nobody would bother saying anything. Shame on you, Slaters.
Marcel D.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Liverpool, United Kingdom
Home of the infamous ‘Quad Vod’, Slater’s is the prime location if you want to get absolutely blind drunk and spend very little money. Just around the corner from ‘Concert Square’, Slater’s is one of them places that are frequented by an older crowd of drinkers in the day, and then a younger crowd of student drinkers by night. It’s famous for being very cheap and serving quadruple measures at very little cost. I went on a Saturday afternoon after bumping into some mates in town the other week. Three quad vod’s and a jagerbomg later, and I was in bed by 8pm!, Don’t go hear if you don’t want to end up wrecked! The beer wasn’t the best pint that I’ve ever had, but was ok none the less. The bar staff were older and very friendly, the toilets were absolutely rank, as you’d expect, but all in all i would give this place 3⁄5!
Matthew H.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Liverpool, United Kingdom
Seemingly always rammed with a good percentage of the city’s student populous(as well as a fair few local chancers hoping to try their luck with the new-in-town girls) Slater’s is, as Rebecca Unilocaled before me, grotty. It is however almost the only place to start a cheap night out in Liverpool — two drinks here and I promise you will not need another all night. Three and you definitely won’t need anything else but a sleep and an Anadin the next day. The music borders on criminal sometimes but I defy you to not sing along(and further defy to remember the next morning anything you happened to have sung along to). The key thing about Slater’s(aside from the dirt-cheap, dirt-tasting vodka of course) is it’s positioning — equidistant between the cool bars and clubs of Seel Street and the popular drinking dens of Concert Square. A night that starts in Slater’s can quite literally go either way.
Rebecca C.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Liverpool, United Kingdom
Slaters, the self acclaimed ‘College of Knowledge’, is somewhere you want to go if you want to get roaring drunk and still have change of a £20 note. Not just a karaōke bar, this has built its reputation on quad vods served in pint glasses(4 shots of vodka) with a bottle of WKD to top it up. And by heck is it popular. Not being a vodka drinker myself, I’ve always asked why they can’t do four whiskeys instead, but apparently the name wouldn’t catch on. This is a massive student pub and as a result, looks a bit grotty. Its had a relatively recent facelift on the exterior, but not a lot, if anything, has changed inside. Nobody cares though, because the music is like the stuff from your favourite radio station combined with that mix tape you made when you were younger, and the quad vods soon dim most people’s senses. This place is right up there with The Raz as somewhere you have to go to if only for the experience.