The Blackburne Arms Gastropub & HotelThe Blackburne Arms

The Blackburne Arms is the pick that best answers the plain 'best Sunday roast Liverpool' search: it is the venue local editorial (Confidentials' 'according to Scousers' list, a LiverpoolWorld review) most consistently name for the roast itself. Its official menu offers a choice of roast beef, chicken, lamb or a vegetarian roast (which can be made vegan on request) with all the trimmings, so meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans can book together - broader than the beef-led rivals above it on quality. Crucially for this vertical, it serves 12pm-7.30pm on Sundays (booking required), the longest window on our shortlist, which makes it far less likely you'll arrive to find the roasts gone than at sitting-limited rivals. It's a traditional independent gastropub in the Georgian Quarter rather than a chain or hotel dining room, and pricing sits in the mid-range pub bracket. The trade-off versus Hawksmoor at #2: you give up dry-aged, chef-driven refinement for breadth, flexibility and better value.