What I like the most about the Egg is the chilled out setting and the fact you can get a good range of vegan meals. Although they don’t make as many vegan cakes as they used to they still do a tasty chocolate crunch. You can also take your own wine and the meals are very well priced so this is an ideal place if you want good food for under a fiver!

posted: Jan 3, 2008

I love the Egg and it’s a great place for a brew, but let’s be honest the food’s never been any good. Went recently and had the spicy burger – dry, stodgy with an unpleasant salsa. Cheap, tasty vegetarian food shouldn’t be that difficult.

posted: Feb 15, 2008

well I always wanted a chilled out veggie/vegan cafe on my doorstep, but Egg seems to be missing the point…food!
stuck in the 70’s ,change it please! My son doesn’t like Egg food but the staff are soooo mean they won’t make him beans on toast, shame on you.On the other hand it is a nice place for cake and a cup of tea,but somewhere the size of Liverpool deserves better.

posted: Feb 29, 2008

I luv the egg!!!! Always a variety of food to pick, dead quick service and a good munch after a few hours shopping!!! staff are great and there is nothing they should change about the place although i did like it more when they had the fab couch in the corner!!!! x

posted: Jun 16, 2008

We live in Tipperary and were home in Liverpool for a few weeks.The Egg was recommended by Johanna who used to work there and was playing with a fab band in Clonmel, Ireland at the Platform in Gleesons Pub. We thought it was brilliant. Great food, lovely atmosphere and friendly and obliging staff. Their eggy bread is to die for. I was even given the choice of soya milk in my hot chocolate! We’ll definitely be back! Don’t change a thing!Love the artwork too.

posted: Apr 9, 2009

Yes the food is pretty bad and its always full of goths nursing a cup of tea for 4 hours.

posted: Apr 13, 2009

I really liked the egg actually, it was the first place I found that I could eat in when I arrived in liverpool and reminds me faintly of my favourite place in Edinburgh. Anyway, yes, decent prices, beautiful place, gorgeous food, and exactly my kind of place.

posted: May 2, 2009

It’s always great to go up to Egg. Good food, great friendly service, BYOD . Highly recommended.

posted: May 2, 2009

The Egg is awesome!
First tried it on Friday and went back again on Saturday. I did get a few strange looks considering I was sporting a t-shirt with ‘All American Classic’ and a picture of a hot dog, along side my vegan tattoo…. but that’s my own fault. ha.

Staff were really nice, service was really fast, especially on Saturday as it was PACKED. Can’t wait to get back to Liverpool so i can go again. =D

posted: May 3, 2009

A really great find for a vegan with a few days to spend in Liverpool and even better for regulars who can get to know the many different dishes. I would like to have visited again as I made a poor choice of main course. I opted for a three course meal which, including a cup of tea or coffee, was £9.95. The vegan mushroom soup, served with a glorious door stopper sized garlic herby bread, was superb, I should have just ordered that as it provided a very sufficient lunch. My choice of main course, called Creamy Mushrooms, apparently made with vegan cream cheese, had no visible sign of cream and no taste of mushroom; it was a rather sloppy dish consisting of mainly onion, pepper and tomato with a few mushrooms thrown in at the end of the cooking time. I took my dessert away with me and enjoyed later that evening the vegan chocolate cake. This restaurant reminds me of the early London vegetarian restaurants such as Mildred’s in the West End or Kingston’s Riverside Vegetaria which initially offered very stodgy food. Egg’s salad, for instance, consisted of two carbs and several root vegetables. The only other option as an accompaniment to the main courses was boiled rice. It’s a better restaurant for vegetarians than vegans as there were a couple of very nice looking quiches on offer. The restaurant itself has a lovely relaxed atmosphere and the staff were extremely helpful, friendly and accommodating. It’s probably unfair to judge this restaurant on a single visit and I’ll make a point of returning when next in Liverpool.

posted: May 25, 2009

I love the egg. I love the random bright purple door in the middle of an otherwise dull street. I love the beanie burger, it amazing. I love the great prices. I love the fact that you don’t have to pay for a glass of water and I love the foreign guy who works on weekdays. I love that its bright purple from floor to ceiling and I love the gold painted vines. I love the upstairs seating. I love the painting upstairs and I love the mis-matched tables and chairs. I love it when I take someone new there and they look confused when you reach the top of the stairs and there’s just a purple make-shift door. I love the hot chocolate and the bananna cake. I love that its so close to Quiggins and Bold Street but its so quiet and you don’t get any chavs or screaming kids in there. I love the atmosphere most, its great for revising or just relaxing. I love sitting by the old wooden window and watching the rain with a cup of tea. One of only a few great places left after the Paradise Street project knocked everything down.

posted: Jun 14, 2009

Once described as the most Bohemian place on Earth, the Egg is a veritable garden of delights.
The stairway is like going up the Rabbit Hole instead of down. From Rachel (The Painting Fairy’s) interior design and stunning mural upstairs from The Temple of the Flora (an obscure 18th century compendium of graphic art) to the notices and tables full of interesting things going on in town, from the pictorial art to the always friendly staff, not to mention the imposing and mysterious visitors who are occasionally seen there, and yes, the grub too, which is a bit hit and miss at times I must admit, (I well remember Carrot and Orange soup with BIG lumps of carrot and an excruciating excess of orange zest!) there is a baroque charm to it that at once captivates and envelops the inquisitive mind and senses with divers fascinations.
There’s always music; not everyone likes that. It’s never loud though, and, consistent with the Egg formula, it’s always something different and somehow never seems to intrude. It’s just a part of the whole wonderful mess of the place.
The building is old and a bit decrepid, the staff are young and learning; as art exhibits come and go, and structural improvements are often in progress, and supplies being moved up the stairs, there is a sense of constant change and renewal. You never quite know what to expect when you go there. Maybe bare walls if a new installation is imminent. Or perhaps a riot of colour and texture, or a more subdued and adumbrating theme; a packed house full of college types gossiping and older intellectuals behind their journals and books, bemused itinerants, mysterious acolytes, a breeding colony of stuffed monkeys, solicitous paramours, or a largely deserted welcoming space, it’s always different.
And the graf in the loos of course which is always of the most direct sincere and polemical kind.
Then there’s night-time. As the lights go off and the candles are handed out and lit, the environs take on a whole new life of shadow and mystery, and late on a cold Winter’s night, there’s nowt quite so delightfully warming as a bowl of Egg crumble and a mug of Yogi tea.
It is what it is. The sofas aren’t there any more, it’s all decorated, much of the raw anarchy has left it. The Egg has grown up, the Slipknot hoodie has gone to the charity shop, the piercings are out and gone, but under that slightly shabby suit is a flamoyant bow tie and a pair of the most ridiculous odd socks you’ve ever seen.
This is a place for the adventurous. If things go wrong, if you get stood up, if your life stinks, don’t worry, because at the Egg you’re never more than a spicy burger away from happiness.
Just one last thing. As with all places of mystery, there are certain superstitions surrounding it, one of which is, leave a tip and make a wish. Even if you’re totally strapped, leave a penny in the magic tips bowl and the Painting Fairy and her friends might just grant your wish, who knows.

posted: Jun 20, 2009