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good selection of ales, however quality is inconsistant. very unfreindly and unwelcoming staff. what a shame!
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Enjoyed good pints of Hobbs Bitter and Brigadier. The atmosphere debate below is probably one of personal taste as much as anything. The pub has high ceilings and is not a "cozy boozer" but a decent town pub and extremely god beers looked after by an enthusiastic landlord.
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What are all these reviewers looking for with their comments about ‘atmosphere’? I found the welcome friendly & down to earth from the locals and the knowlegeable, beer enthusiastic guv. The pub has a simple interior with L-shaped bar serving two rooms, nothing wrong with that, or the local feel of the place. Hoskins beers, EXS (5%), Brigadier, Hob Bitter, Mild, Navigation Ale (7%), Tollgate TGB, Ale Wagon Traditional Cyder (8%). I nearly missed this place due to its artificially low rating on these pages, but I’m glad we caught a few well-conditioned beers here before heading off to the train.
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It's a pub on my circuit in Leicester. I'm a ticker so only an occasional tick here for me. They do regular fests but for a reason only known to themselves they fail to advertise them. Guys people will come if you let them know! The beer is well kept. If you like to drink in oppressive victorian dad style silence this will be your bag. The Hoskins lads keep threatening to brew. I think i'll open a brewery before they get around to it.
Worth a visit on a beer fest. Look on scoopgen if you want that info
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Does lack Atmosphere,but found the beer of good quality and staff very helpful.Do not think they will be brewing their own beer there as the site is not big enough.The interior does still require more tlc but it still welcoming.
lotus - 30 Mar 2008 11:23 |
I would agree with most of the other comments that this pub serves excellent ales but lacks atmosphere. It is nice in some ways that it seems to have changed very little since the middle of teh last century but wothout the atmosphere it is not somewhere that I would want to use all the time.
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Called in for the recent beer festival that I had not seen advertised but heard about in the Vaults. There was a good range of beers available, and I enjoyed those I had.
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There has been some (slow) progress over the years, with refurbishment and redecoration. Time will tell if it eventually turns into a pub as good as The Swan & Rushes or The Criterion. I've never had a problem with the staff, and I've always found the beer to be excellent. Once I was a third of the way through my pint when one of the Hoskins brothers brought another over to me. "Have this one instead, it's from a new barrel". That's what I call good customer service! The Hoskins EXS really hits the spot. The HOB's not bad either. That said, I agree with some of the other comments about the lack of atmosphere, etc.
Slake - 30 Oct 2007 22:27 |
Service was surly, ale range was limited, and quality was left wanting. Won't be going again. Enough said!
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The moon has rather more atmosphere than this pub.
Can be intimidating for an outsider, felt like a lamb to the slaughter when going upto the bar.
Certainly a shame as it has been known to have the occasional good beer (ok, once in a blue moon).
anonymous - 8 Oct 2007 21:41 |
Just down the road from the new Arts Centre, this is stilla good reason to visit Leicester's Cultural Quarter. An exceptional range of real ales is avilable and the festivlas are very good as well. The only fault of the place is a very lowkey atmosphere and some cliquey locals. The pub does seem to have been having some success in attracting yuonger regulars recently and is usually buzzing after work on Friday afternoons.
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Superb beer range and top quality, but lacks atmosphere. Best to take your friennds and provide your own atmosphere!
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Extensive, unusual ale range let down by an unfriendly, lifeless environment. Even during one of their in-house beer "festivals" we were sneered at & generally couldn't wait to leave.
Such great potential but sorely lacking in atmosphere. Do the only sensible thing & take the short walk to OUT OF THE VAULTS on King Street where the beer range is even bigger & more unusual, the atmosphere is terrific & the staff will take your money with a smile on their faces.
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This place looks better at night when the lights are on. Beerwise it can’t be faulted with 9 pumps dispensing real ales including several Hoskins beers which are at present contract brewed until the pub’s own brewery is ready.
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Two big rooms with a smattering of old men looking at the Racing Post and waiting for something to happen, like tumbleweed to blow past perhaps.
Has an alright Real Ale range and the Dolphin wheat beer was nice. A regular comedy evening was advertised too. It'd have to be bloody good to get the resident old farts to chuckle though.
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