Nice pubs in Leicester

[boots60]

I thought the Quay would've made a good music/gig/stand up comedy venue.

Bigger than your average pub but small enough to be an alternative type venue 

Saw Simon Day (out of the fast show) there, great night out.

Also decent for when the sun shines with the square outside 

 

[RonnieTodger]

Sadly not Leicester, but Oakham and Stamford have some cracking pubs. 

[Wolfox]

Mobius did cracking food for a while

 

i I was at Loaf most weekends

[Paninistickers]

2 hours ago, boots60 said:

I thought the Quay would've made a good music/gig/stand up comedy venue.

Bigger than your average pub but small enough to be an alternative type venue 

Saw Simon Day (out of the fast show) there, great night out.

Also decent for when the sun shines with the square outside 

 

Saw Marlon Harewood in there years back. And (tho I may be confused) Noel Whelan. 

 

In those days, footballers still used to come to Leicester. 

[westernpark]

9 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Saw Marlon Harewood in there years back. And (tho I may be confused) Noel Whelan. 

 

In those days, footballers still used to come to Leicester. 

Harewood lived/lives in Peckleton. I see him in Sainsbury’s quite often.

[Wymsey]

1 hour ago, westernpark said:

Harewood lived/lives in Peckleton. I see him in Sainsbury’s quite often.

 

1 hour ago, Paninistickers said:

Saw Marlon Harewood in there years back. And (tho I may be confused) Noel Whelan. 

 

In those days, footballers still used to come to Leicester. 

In around 2002, my Father purchased a house in Markfield (in Thornton Park) from Noel Whelan; and then sold it later to Paul Dickov when the latter joined LCFC.

Edited 19 December 2024 by Wymsey

[SemperEadem]

Loaf did good food right?

[FLAN]

13 hours ago, boots60 said:

I thought the Quay would've made a good music/gig/stand up comedy venue.

Bigger than your average pub but small enough to be an alternative type venue 

Saw Simon Day (out of the fast show) there, great night out.

Also decent for when the sun shines with the square outside 

 

Loved that place when it first opened. 
couldn’t survive once a supermarket opened opposite and people just sat in the square drinking cans in the summer 

[adam1]

3 hours ago, FLAN said:

Loved that place when it first opened. 
couldn’t survive once a supermarket opened opposite and people just sat in the square drinking cans in the summer 

I'm reading this thread thinking "where the hell was the quay". Now I remember!

 

Great place. But. Out by itself and certainly now wouldn't survive with the change in student demographics.

[adam1]

On 17/12/2024 at 14:42, adam1 said:

Any decent boozers showing the boxing on Saturday?

Answer to my own question - duffys is alright and is showing it.

Edited 20 December 2024 by adam1

[RoboFox]

16 hours ago, boots60 said:

I thought the Quay would've made a good music/gig/stand up comedy venue.

Bigger than your average pub but small enough to be an alternative type venue 

Saw Simon Day (out of the fast show) there, great night out.

Also decent for when the sun shines with the square outside 

 

 

1 hour ago, adam1 said:

I'm reading this thread thinking "where the hell was the quay". Now I remember!

 

Great place. But. Out by itself and certainly now wouldn't survive with the change in student demographics.

 

It was a shame, but I'm not sure it was particularly well run and was certainly overpriced for the time given the demographic it should've been targeting. It should've been rammo given its proximity to DMU and location on the thoroughfare to the Narb student population. 

 

Soar Point and The Polar Bear were always well supported. 

[Grebfromgrebland]

Does anyone remember the massive fight outside the Quay maybe 20 years ago? Luckily I was inside on the balcony and people held the doors shut but it was pretty mental.

[Lako42]

16 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Does anyone remember the massive fight outside the Quay maybe 20 years ago? Luckily I was inside on the balcony and people held the doors shut but it was pretty mental.

Wasn't that for the England game?

[Grebfromgrebland]

25 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Wasn't that for the England game?

I can't remember really but it was a hot summers day and maybe 60  people just started fighting each other 

[Dr The Singh]

3 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Does anyone remember the massive fight outside the Quay maybe 20 years ago? Luckily I was inside on the balcony and people held the doors shut but it was pretty mental.

Yeah remember that, I think it was after a footy match, Larko reckons it was England.

 

I used to live down the road to Quay, it was my local, met loads of poon in that place.  Happy days.

[Soar Fox]

5 hours ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

Does anyone remember the massive fight outside the Quay maybe 20 years ago? Luckily I was inside on the balcony and people held the doors shut but it was pretty mental.

I remember Wolves fans fighting there after they beat us on the last game of the season. Must have been around 2006ish

[stretch1965]

Not necessarily a nice pub but Just got back from town,  not been for a long while and I know its spoons but 3 pints of Stowford press, 1 pint of Guinness and 1 pint of Poretti = £13.55. 5 pints for under 14 quid guiness alone is £6 something in my local.

 

[westernpark]

17 minutes ago, stretch1965 said:

Not necessarily a nice pub but Just got back from town,  not been for a long while and I know its spoons but 3 pints of Stowford press, 1 pint of Guinness and 1 pint of Poretti = £13.55. 5 pints for under 14 quid guiness alone is £6 something in my local.

 

I went on Wednesday with some people from work. Whilst I was annoyed we didn’t hit some bettee pubs, I can understand why people want to be going there. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

2 hours ago, stretch1965 said:

Not necessarily a nice pub but Just got back from town,  not been for a long while and I know its spoons but 3 pints of Stowford press, 1 pint of Guinness and 1 pint of Poretti = £13.55. 5 pints for under 14 quid guiness alone is £6 something in my local.

 

 

Diageo have hiked their prices to pubs up to an excruciating rate and basically have people over a barrel given the current popularity of Guinness; that's why it's suddenly become a pretty pricey pint. If you see a pub with an alternative stout on (i.e Camden) it's a soft launch to see how they can/could cope without because the mark up is greater for them.

[Lako42]

Guinness is bang average and the marketers are having everyone's easily led pants down 

[Samilktray]

7 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Guinness is bang average and the marketers are having everyone's easily led pants down 

It’s at least a 7/10 most of the time and you don’t feel daft saying it at the bar. Just a reliable pint imho. 

[grobyfox1990]

17 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Guinness is bang average and the marketers are having everyone's easily led pants down 

It’s an average draught pint at an average price point. That sounds about right. Average isn’t an insult.

If you’re switching from a spirit/mixer or another average draught to a Guinness, I can’t see how you’re having your pants down. 
 

[grobyfox1990]

11 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

It’s at least a 7/10 most of the time and you don’t feel daft saying it at the bar. Just a reliable pint imho. 

Yeh agreed. I get it’s fashionable to go against trends, hence it’s now v fashionable to insult Guinness. But as the poster above says, it’s an average and reliable draught. That’s it 

[Lako42]

1 hour ago, grobyfox1990 said:

It’s an average draught pint at an average price point. That sounds about right. Average isn’t an insult.

If you’re switching from a spirit/mixer or another average draught to a Guinness, I can’t see how you’re having your pants down. 
 

It's all the muppets who don't normally drink it who now do so because it's fashionable not because they like it. 

 

It's also not an average price point anymore because of said people. 

 

I maintain that neay all smaller brewery stouts I've ever had are better than Guinness. 

 

I mean black heart by BD is even superior and they tend to make absolute dross. 

[Lako42]

Listening to multiple people in the Bradgate order a Guinness and then decide to have a fake Spanish lager instead because the stout is Titanic Stout and not Guinness tells you everything about these people. 

 

It's a far better pint but not cool. 

 

 

Makes me want to vomit