More than 25,000 people downloaded offers worth more than half a million pounds during Liverpool Restaurant Week with the initiative to return for a fourth year in 2027. Tony McDonough reports
Liverpool Restaurant Week 2026 has been hailed as a major success and will return for a fourth time in 2027.
Organised by Liverpool BID Company, Liverpool Restaurant Week saw 119 city centre venues take part. And by the end of the week 25,707 people had downloaded £522,745 worth of offers.
It took place from April 18 to 26 and the top 10 venues for offers downloaded were Hawksmoor, Fat Hippo, Moose Coffee, So Salsa, The Municipal Hotel, Ours Castle Street, On The Vine, Bean Coffee, Pho Castle Street and Core Coffee.
Each venue created culinary and drink offers ranging from £5 to £35. It was timed to coincide with the traditional lull between the Grand National and May Bank Holiday.
During the week a number of hospitality entrepreneurs and other business leaders came together to discuss the health of the sector at a round table event organised by LBN and hosted by law firm Gregory Abrams Davidson.
Hospitality is a crucial element of Liverpool’s visitor economy, now worth 36% of spend in the city centre, with one in 10 jobs in the city centre in hospitality.
Since 2019, data from Beauclair shows the food and drink industry has increased in debit spend (how much people spend in venues) by 16.4%. Since the pandemic, the industry is growing 2.4% year on year. In 2025, that expenditure was £322,654,686.
According to figures from Liverpool City Council, hospitality, equating to the food industry and accommodation, such as hotels, total to 9.3% of employment in Liverpool or 20,776 jobs.
Katie Bentley, director of strategic partnerships and communications at the BID, said: “What Liverpool Restaurant Week shows is that it takes a community to support hospitality.
“From Merseyrail supporting advertising, to restaurants broadcasting offers and events, it shows that when the city comes together it can make a real difference. It only works when it has the support of restaurants and the wider sector.
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“As food and drink becomes such a vitally important sector to the city’s economy, it becomes increasingly important for us to have a strategic understanding of the best way to support it.”
Paul Askew, chef patron at the Art School Restaurant in Liverpool, added: “Restaurant Week this year in Liverpool was stunning. We had so many happy people coming to see the restaurant who possibly wouldn’t have come previously.”