"If Narnia was down a flight of stairs in Liverpool, it would be HOBO Kiosk!". This tiny pub in the city's Baltic Triangle is run by husband and wife duo Delia and Tristan.
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00:00If Narnia was down a flight of stairs in Liverpool, it would be Hobo Kiosk.
00:06This tiny pub in the city's Baltic Triangle is run by husband and wife duo Delia and Tristan.
00:12Pubs are important social spaces for adults, that it gives us the capacity to
00:21basically engage with people, to meet new people, to continue relationships and to have something
00:27that, to be honest, is a bit of theatre, a bit of public theatre.
00:31Three days after Tristan moved to the city, he met Delia and they've been together ever since.
00:36The couple both worked in community art for 40 years before opening the space,
00:41first as a curiosity shop, before transforming it into a pub.
00:45We thought, well, we've got nothing else to lose and we always fancied
00:48doing something new, but not this. This was not something we planned.
00:52But then we took it on and we went with it.
00:54As well as serving up a curated selection of drinks from the likes of local breweries,
00:59the place is also a feast for the eyes with its distinctive design.
01:03Its walls are adorned with vintage prints, signs, paintings and it seems every spare
01:08space is taken up by unusual objects, from mannequins to a mariachi hat.
01:13When we first started off, this was an empty space and
01:18slowly we accreted, we gathered all of these things. Now, most of them come from our house.
01:24We've been gifted a lot of lovely objects from friends too,
01:29but we have a house that's very like this.
01:31The European Bar Guide, which visits and profiles pubs and bars around the continent,
01:35recently named the establishment Joint Top in the City, alongside Peter Cavanagh's.
01:41You know, to have somewhere where you can go where, as the cliche goes,
01:46everyone knows your name and treats you like you are that central person in your own story,
01:55I think is something that, you know, actually people need.