Firebug is a great bar to go if you decide to venture into town. It is open late (4am) and tends to…read morebe a good alternative to going to a club after the other pubs close. It has a good outdoor area, with heaters and some interesting furniture. I always seem to end up here - by accident - I'd like to see what it was like during the day. I know it also has gigs and comedy events taking place on the first floor. It is a nice little independant pub - which is always good to have in a city like Leicester.

If it wasn't for distance (well, it's about a mile from my house), this place would be my local…read more Your average rock pub it's not - your feet don't stick to the floor and you can actually see five feet in front of you. They have a huge array of drinks (hurrah, raspberry beer!), awesome cocktails, an eclectic playlist of indie/alt past and present - oh, and the food's not bad too. The Sunday roast and the burgers come very recommended. And that's not to mention the beer garden, the frequent gigs, the lindy hop lessons (yes, you read correctly.). I like this place muchly.

Decor is like a cross between a 1966 Chevy Fleetwood station wagon, a Nixon/Fossil wood-grain wrist…read morewatch and something on the back of a 1973 Blind Faith LP. In other words, it is the glorious epitome of 1970s chill lounge grooviness (the closest thing to it in Seattle is the now defunct 'The Apartment' on 1st - RIP). Wide mix of folks from pretty to plain, chavs to posh, but no one was fugly (there were three extraordinarily attractive girls from Denmark the night I was there). Staff are a little standoffish, but they are competent. Crowd seemed open to conversation with foriegners which I found somewhat uncommon in Leicester. I would definitely return.

Cool 60s interior with a very trendy vibe. Cool music and a cool, posery crowd. Nice to go for an…read moreearly drink it gets rammed later on. Pricey.

Part of a residency of clubs that populate this leafy district of Leicester, Revolution offers an…read moreextensive cocktail menu like few others in the city. Busy like a boxer's jab this place is popular with trendy 20-somethings who like chilled vodka to a soundtrack of rock and funk. Unpretentious, at times tongue in cheek. If you run out of ideas your evening begins here. A lively stop-off on the debauched pilgrimage that is a night out in Leicester.

A young and trendy bar located in a nice area of town. During term time this is a popular student…read morehaunt with many pub crawls passing through here. A wide of variety of drinks especially cocktails and shorts. They do racks of shorts, something like 5, 10, 20, 30. Great fun with a group of people but there is always several shorts that are vile - haha, that's the fun part! They have an outdoor seating area out front which is a great place for people watching along new walk. new walk is lovely walk way from town to victoria park. Good music and open until late with some fine women here!

This pub somehow used to manage to look grand and grotty at the same time. I suppose it was…read moreinevitable that it would be due a refurb. I miss the old place, but the more modern Marquis is still a good pubprobably better than the old one to be honest. It serves the whole Everards range and even manages to squeeze in a couple of guests. The exterior deck has been done very nicely too, a good place for a sunny day.

Nice pub with a good range of drinks and good food…read more Only downside is with regards to prices, it thinks it's a pub in London.

Best bar in Leicester Rebecca is a 10/10 drinks provider she deserves to be paid 20 pounds and…read morehour. She pours the best pint in the Midlands hands down probably the greatest bar staff of our generation. If I could name a small village in Suffolk after her I would. Fantastic bar staff!

Yellow pub, with the same stuff you would see in any yellow pub. Like many of this chain in…read moreLeicester (see the Soar Point as a case in point) it has a ridiculous amount of stairs to negotiate, which is not great if you're bladdered. The usual cheap drinks and menu if you have a Yellow Card - two quid for students, like gold dust to the rest of us (I've just had my purse nicked so mine is gone!) The usual pub fare is available, burgers, chips and the like. It gets mad busy and proportionately more scummy as the evening goes on. Expect to stick to the floors, the bar and the tables. In fact, try not to touch anything at all if you can help it. Maybe some gloves would be a good idea. And the toilets, well, I just waited til I got home so I'll leave it to you to find out.

Nice place with a good selection of beers and cocktails. They do drink and food specials pretty…read moreoften, most recently a Bourbon Root Beer Float that was pretty tasty. A bit more upscale than a pub but not quite as fancy as a cocktail bar, with a nice mix of people and good music. The place seems to fill up a bit on weekends, unsurprisingly, but there is a large beer garden in the back if you don't mind the smokers. The food menu also looks pretty interesting but I have not yet eaten here.

Best bar in Leicster tis a bit quirky and the furniture is…read morea mixed bag really but the staff attentive and the beer is great as is the food too all hand made not microwaved muck not expensive for something different its also a chav free zone

Not only did this pub have a pretty decent beer garden, but it also had a really charming…read moreatmosphere as well. In fact, this pub certainly felt like one of those inner-city, hipster style pubs, though being in Leicester, that probably isn't as much the same. Still, I have to admit that it is a pretty awesome pub.

Staff are friendly, fun and polite. New to Leicester, here…read moreto see a show. Great pint too

Really nice atmosphere on a Saturday night! Great choice of beers and burgers. Meals are extremely…read morefilling and great service too. We called up just before the kitchen was closing and they kindly waited for us to arrive despite subsequently deciding to shut early. Great decor and nice touches even in the toilets!

I do love my BrewDog hence my nickname. Managed to fit another one in to my hectic schedule…read more Leicester gets top marks almost purely based on the staff. Table service now that is a treat. I had a Jet Black Heart via Nitro and a Double IPA both of which hit the spot. Only one point that I would love to address is the menu seems to come up a bit short with pretty much only pies.

A proper landlady, running a proper pub, with what must be the biggest and best beer garden in the…read morewhole of Leicester. They serve the full range of Everards beers including an unusually named beer that was made with New Zealand hops. They are not averse to beer festivals either. The food was alright toowell..they did a nice jacket potatoe, which I guess doesn't rank too highly on a list of culinary achievements. The only downside is that the big beer garden can encourage families, which can make it a less relaxing place for a drink. But you could always go inside and sit at the coffin table if that happens.

Only the usual Everards beer selection in here I'm afraid, with the very occasional guest ale,…read morehowever this place does have a lot going for it. It's spacious and has one table which is actually a coffin! There's loads of tat hanging round from the ceiling which continue the eccentric feel, but the best thing is the garden, from wide space to umbrella-d patio replete with life size Blues Brothers and real live owls! They do a regular quiz night which is very popular and a good laugh as well as other bits and bobs like New Years Eve celebrations with free buffet!! It's an unpretentious place with a decent vibe and no aggro, pretty good I'd say!

My first impressions were not so great. I like my pubs a bit quieter than this, but then what do I…read moreexpect if I insist on going out on a weekend? My initial uncertainty soon evaporatedand not just because we managed to get a table. What an amazing selection of beers this pub has! Not just all the the Locales (local alesgeddit) that you can get from the pump, but also the amazing blurred selection of bottles in the fridges (the blurring, my own fault for being too vain to wear my glasses out on a Saturday nightI'll have to come back with them on) and perry (called perry) on tap. They even have my favourite smoked beerbut were out of it during my visit. Luckily there were many other as yet untried options for me to consider. I had a couple of very decent ales. I didn't realize that this pub had received so many CAMRA awards until I was actually sitting there, enjoying my pint and reading the local CAMRA pamphlet. Good work, because the pub doesn't look like much from the outside. Dodgy, ugly, wornare all adjectives I could imagine being used to describe its external appearance, but then appearances can most definitely be deceptive. There are a couple of separate bar rooms and a small outside area (very empty in the driving rain that night). The do gigs here too.

Real ale pub aficionados in leicester need search no further. This place has 6 on every night…read more(mostly) and the owner knows how to treat his beer with care and attention. Miss it at your peril.