What a great little pub,set in a lovely country village. Their food is excellent with a warm and…read morefriendly group of people working there. Plenty of things going on, they even have a brilliant acoustic open mic on the first Sunday of each month. Landlord and lady are lovely too, go along and see them, you'll be glad you did.

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

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.

Not the most charming location right by the flyover, but that is where the unpleasantries end!…read moreInside this is a friendly place and a proper traditional pub to boot. Quite a fair garden space also! This pub has rapidly become one of the essential ale houses of Leicester. I fully expected to be staying a while, confirmed once I saw 3 beers on I'd not had before. Whipples Gold, Belvoir Dark Horse mild and something I mysteriously noted down as 'Sedge of Betterns' which appears not to exist! One cool initiative is that if you finish the barrel then your next beer is on the house. Make you feel better about getting that last poorer quality pint. Chatting with the bartender led to the first time in my life that someone pointed out I was old enough to be their father!

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

Actually, I have to admit that this was a pretty awesome pub, especially with the beer garden out…read morethe back. Honestly, a lot of these beer gardens are just hacked together smoking areas, whereas this one actually feels like you can spend some time here. Oh, and their menu is also pretty decent as well.

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.

Good lunch time menu and reasonsble prices Friendly service…read moreand well kept beer

When it comes to great pub food and drink, The Blackbird in Leicester sets the standard for…read morecustomers from nearby Frog Island, Belgrave & Leicester City Centre and across Leicestershire. Of all the pubs and bars in Leicester our food menu and drinks selection mean we offer quality, choice, and above all value that are second to none.