Check out city's top pubs - as picked by celebrities

IVERPOOL is blessed with some of the greatest pubs in the world.

- By RYAN PATON & COURTNEY EALES ECHO Reporter

The drinking dens of Merseyside are part of the fabric of the city and each one has its own story to tell.

Thousands of people have walked through the doors of the many watering holes across our region and settled into their surroundings to wile away the hours with a pint.

A pub is shaped by who drinks in them and the ECHO is always intrigued to find out more about notable figures in the city and where they choose to go for a pint.

Where someone drinks says a lot about their personality and, in the ECHO's Best of Liverpool series, we like to find out where stars from the city choose as their favourite pubs.

We have compiled together the answers and scoured old interviews and stories to come up with a special celebrity pub crawl that we think works.

Now, the nature of the pub crawl means the bars need to all be within walking distance, so we have had to make some difficult omissions from Liverpool's neighbourhoods.

Jimmy McGovern called Kensington's Liver Vaults his favourite pub, while you could do a special West Derby pub crawl by going to Paddy Pimblett's favourite, The Deysbrook, before heading to the Sefton Arms, which Joseph Quinn said he is partial to whenever he's in the city.

All great pubs, no doubt, but sadly they do not feature in our pub crawl as we focused on the city centre for the purpose of this piece, which gets started in Liverpool's historic Georgian Quarter.

Peter Kavanagh's: Nestled in the elegant terraces of Egerton Street, Peter Kavanagh's is undeniably one of Liverpool's great pubs.

The 19th century enclave was selected by Jamie Webster, during his interview in the ECHO, as his favourite in the city, as the Scouse musician could often be found playing here at the beginning of his career.

The pub started life in 1844 and has been known as The Liver, The Liver Hotel, The Grapes, Peter's Hotel and Peter's over the years.