Nice pubs in Leicester

[Lako42]

3 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Maybe I missed it here but I read elsewhere that the Bowling Green has shut.

Wasn't it leaking all winter and the people running it got no help from the brewery? 

 

May have made that up 

[CosbehFox]

Been on its backside for a while and is symbolic for how student drinking has gone. Really sad given its history. I have had more than one person who've worked with who used go to the old Polytechnic and the Bowling Green is mentioned. 

[Miquel The Work Geordie]

The lease is still up on Stonegate's site here. Hopefully someone takes it on, it was decent after the initial refurb during our title winning season when some big Scouse bloke ran it, but seems to have lost its way a bit.

[kenny]

Cask and coffee also up for sale, be a shame if it doesn't survive as it's a cracking place.

[westernpark]

1 hour ago, kenny said:

Cask and coffee also up for sale, be a shame if it doesn't survive as it's a cracking place.

Mill Hill?

[westernpark]

Bowling Green have great memories of the only time I really drank lager, in late teens and early 20s. So about ten years ago it was doing a roaring trade and I would go in with pals for 2.50 carling deal. Used to be poured with a massive head but was a great way to spend a midweek night for the grand price of a tenner. It is constantly on the stoneygate site being cited as available.
 

I definitely agree that its downfall is partly a result of changing habits of students, although football and rugby trade must give it a chance still. A concept that leaves me considering what reduced attendances in the future will do to our pubs.

[Stadt]

Rejoined Camra and looking through the What Pub listing, I've drank in 34% (266/772) of the pubs in Leicester & Leicestershire (discounting the separatists in the East).

Lots in the City's southern suburbs I haven't done including Oadby, Wigston, Whetstone, Countesthorpe, Narborough, Littlethorpe etc. I can probably clear 300 sometime this year with Sileby, Barrow, Syston, Shepshed and few more in Loughborough yet to do. 

 

Not sure if this is impressive or alcoholic, I only really got into pubs in my second year of uni which was ~7 years ago.

 

 

Edited 23 January by Stadt

[MattFox]

On 22/01/2025 at 17:25, Stadt said:

Rejoined Camra and looking through the What Pub listing, I've drank in 34% (266/772) of the pubs in Leicester & Leicestershire (discounting the separatists in the East).

Lots in the City's southern suburbs I haven't done including Oadby, Wigston, Whetstone, Countesthorpe, Narborough, Littlethorpe etc. I can probably clear 300 sometime this year with Sileby, Barrow, Syston, Shepshed and few more in Loughborough yet to do. 

 

Not sure if this is impressive or alcoholic, I only really got into pubs in my second year of uni which was ~7 years ago.

 

 

They were shut for basically a year of that time…

[Wolfox]

On 16/01/2025 at 10:46, Chris_OGrady said:

They must be doing a bit better with there being an absolute dearth of pubs by the train station. What's happened to Steamin Billy these days? Looks like they've got rid of all their pubs apart from the Cow and Plough in Oadby.

Point of order…. It’s the cow and plough in Stougton, I have never lived in Oadby….!!!  
 

Does a decent Sunday Roast too…

[SemperEadem]

The Rutland & Derby is having a refurb.

[SpacedX]

On 22/01/2025 at 17:25, Stadt said:

Not sure if this is impressive or alcoholic, I only really got into pubs in my second year of uni which was ~7 years ago.

 

Please take this as a compliment, but I always imagined that you were, how should I put it? - a more senior contributor to this forum - maybe on the cusp of retirement age. That you are rejoining CAMRA for a second time perhaps supports that assumption? 

[bovril]

Just now, SpacedX said:

Please take this as a compliment, but I always imagined that you were, how should I put it? - a more senior contributor to this forum - maybe on the cusp of retirement age. That you are rejoining CAMRA for a second time perhaps supports that assumption? 

Would be a fun thread. Guess the age and background of the poster from the stuff they post.

[Tommy G]

1 minute ago, bovril said:

Would be a fun thread. Guess the age and background of the poster from the stuff they post.

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[RoboFox]

On 21/01/2025 at 09:07, SemperEadem said:

Maybe I missed it here but I read elsewhere that the Bowling Green has shut.

Really hoping it's temporary until a new lease is found.

 

By all accounts Stonegate allowed the building to fall into disrepair and now they've just fvcked off. 

 

Shame man, had many a daft night in the Polar Bear. That place should be a license to print money given the proximity to DMU. 

 

Can't wait for it to reopen as a fvcking shit Costa or something equally bleak.

 

Edited 11 February by RoboFox

[RoboFox]

In fact, the area around DMU seems completely devoid of any pubs and bars at all now.

Swan and Rushes, Bowling Green, The Charlotte, The Quay, that weird Glo bar that used to be there. All gone. 

 

Seems to be just Riley's sports bar and Soar Point left. 

 

The fvck are students doing nowadays? Studying?

 

 

Edited 11 February by RoboFox

[Stadt]

41 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

Please take this as a compliment, but I always imagined that you were, how should I put it? - a more senior contributor to this forum - maybe on the cusp of retirement age. That you are rejoining CAMRA for a second time perhaps supports that assumption? 

Not the first time someday on here has thought  

 

Few years off thirty yet.

[Stadt]

4 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

In fact, the area around DMU seems completely devoid of any pubs and bars at all now.

Swan and Rushes, Bowling Green, The Charlotte, The Quay, that weird Glo bar that used to be there. All gone. 

 

Seems to be just Riley's sports bar and Soar Point left. 

 

The fvck are students doing nowadays? 

 

 

I’d be surprised if DMU’s students are 50% white British. Plus the price of a pint is probably outstripping inflation in student loans and minimum wage jobs.

[Dr The Singh]

2 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I’d be surprised if DMU’s students are 50% white British. Plus the price of a pint is probably outstripping inflation in student loans and minimum wage jobs.

Hello, I like a pint tooo

[boots60]

8 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I’d be surprised if DMU’s students are 50% white British. Plus the price of a pint is probably outstripping inflation in student loans and minimum wage jobs.

Nothing whatsoever to do with being white or British

 

The price of a pint has had an effect

 

The main reason is that younger people in general are moving away from socialising with other human beings.

This is obviously not the case with all, but the stay at home society, especially the young are growing all the time.

[Stadt]

5 minutes ago, boots60 said:

Nothing whatsoever to do with being white or British

 

The price of a pint has had an effect

 

The main reason is that younger people in general are moving away from socialising with other human beings.

This is obviously not the case with all, but the stay at home society, especially the young are growing all the time.

Pub drinkers are predominantly white British and white British DMU students make up a lower proportion of the student population - of course that will have an impact.

You see more students in pubs in Loughborough, generally.

[Stadt]

18 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

Hello, I like a pint tooo

I never see you in the Blue Oyster?

[Dr The Singh]

30 minutes ago, Stadt said:

I never see you in the Blue Oyster?

They gave me a lifetime ban, they said my behaviour was unacceptable.

[SpacedX]

5 hours ago, bovril said:

Would be a fun thread. Guess the age and background of the poster from the stuff they post.

@Daggers - 12 years old?

[Daggers]

37 minutes ago, SpacedX said:

@Daggers - 12 years old?

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

5 hours ago, boots60 said:

Nothing whatsoever to do with being white or British

 

The price of a pint has had an effect

 

The main reason is that younger people in general are moving away from socialising with other human beings.

This is obviously not the case with all, but the stay at home society, especially the young are growing all the time.

As someone who increasingly delivers all kinds of mundane parcels to people, I swear there are people who never leave their houses.

 

Honestly, there are people who buy stuff online that would cost less than the postage if bought from the shop down the road.