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Nice pubs in Leicester

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Tommy G

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Has anyone been to Elbow room in Hinckley? Not a ''pub'' but full of real Ale boffins and if you're into that kind of thing it's very popular. Its sandwiched into the Crescent which means you can nip to poundland and superdrug beforehand, depressing. 

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Just now, Tommy G said:

Has anyone been to Elbow room in Hinckley? Not a ''pub'' but full of real Ale boffins and if you're into that kind of thing it's very popular. Its sandwiched into the Crescent which means you can nip to poundland and superdrug beforehand, depressing. 

I like it, they normally have decent lagers on (rotation), it's busy and skews young-ish.

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Stadt

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1 minute ago, Chris_OGrady said:

Surely we are not as bad as some of these below: Milton Keynes for a start!

England Cities

  • Bath
  • Birmingham*
  • Bradford*
  • Brighton & Hove
  • Bristol*
  • Cambridge
  • Canterbury*
  • Carlisle
  • Chelmsford
  • Chester*
  • Chichester
  • Colchester
  • Coventry*
  • Derby
  • Doncaster
  • Durham
  • Ely
  • Exeter*
  • Gloucester
  • Hereford
  • Kingston-upon-Hull*
  • Lancaster
  • Leeds*
  • Leicester*
  • Lichfield
  • Lincoln
  • Liverpool*
  • London*
  • Manchester*
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne*
  • Norwich*
  • Nottingham*
  • Oxford*
  • Peterborough
  • Plymouth*
  • Portsmouth*
  • Preston
  • Ripon
  • Salford
  • Salisbury
  • Sheffield*
  • Southampton*
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • St Albans
  • Stoke on Trent*
  • Sunderland
  • Truro
  • Wakefield
  • Wells
  • Westminster*
  • Winchester
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcester
  • York*

Per capita it's worse than almost all of those. 

 

Pub drinkers are overwhelmingly white British and Leicester's is 33% WB, plus the university drinking scene is pretty dead in town.

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Chris_OGrady

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Per capita it's worse than almost all of those. 

 

Pub drinkers are overwhelmingly white British and Leicester's is 33% WB, plus the university drinking scene is pretty dead in town.

yeh fair. I imagine Stoke and Bradford perform similar. London obv has great pubs, but per capita does it perform as strongly? For me York is number one based on this metric. 

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yeh fair. I imagine Stoke and Bradford perform similar. London obv has great pubs, but per capita does it perform as strongly? For me York is number one based on this metric. 

London is such an outlier you'd have to do it by Borough level I think. I'd back York on that.

 

The actual number has Portsmouth as the highest (not best), https://www.beerguild.co.uk/news/revealed-britains-pub-capitals-takes-top-spot/

 

Unsurprisingly coastal cities seem to do well.

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22 minutes ago, Chris_OGrady said:

Surely we are not as bad as some of these below: Milton Keynes for a start!

England Cities

  • Bath
  • Birmingham*
  • Bradford*
  • Brighton & Hove
  • Bristol*
  • Cambridge
  • Canterbury*
  • Carlisle
  • Chelmsford
  • Chester*
  • Chichester
  • Colchester
  • Coventry*
  • Derby
  • Doncaster
  • Durham
  • Ely
  • Exeter*
  • Gloucester
  • Hereford
  • Kingston-upon-Hull*
  • Lancaster
  • Leeds*
  • Leicester*
  • Lichfield
  • Lincoln
  • Liverpool*
  • London*
  • Manchester*
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne*
  • Norwich*
  • Nottingham*
  • Oxford*
  • Peterborough
  • Plymouth*
  • Portsmouth*
  • Preston
  • Ripon
  • Salford
  • Salisbury
  • Sheffield*
  • Southampton*
  • Southend-on-Sea
  • St Albans
  • Stoke on Trent*
  • Sunderland
  • Truro
  • Wakefield
  • Wells
  • Westminster*
  • Winchester
  • Wolverhampton
  • Worcester
  • York*

went MK for a saturday night out not long ago and agree, the pub choice was shocking, mainly due to having no town centre per say

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CosbehFox

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21 minutes ago, Chris_OGrady said:

yeh fair. I imagine Stoke and Bradford perform similar. London obv has great pubs, but per capita does it perform as strongly? For me York is number one based on this metric. 

Stoke has some decent pubs in my experience - largely due to the Staffordshire breweries such as Joules & Titanic. 

I am reliably informed Bradford isn't bad. 

 

In terms of smaller setttlements. Halifax is a town what punches above its weight. Worcester I enjoy. Lichfield is great for somewhere so small. 

 

Bath's dog shite IMO. When it comes to affluent locations. 

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41 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Per capita it's worse than almost all of those. 

 

Pub drinkers are overwhelmingly white British and Leicester's is 33% WB, plus the university drinking scene is pretty dead in town.

I guess when you break it down like that, I shouldn't be so harsh on what Leicester has to offer.

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Miquel The Work Geordie

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2 hours ago, Lako42 said:

Is Leicester the worst city in the UK of its size for pubs? 

 

2 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

In there with Coventry and Southampton 

 

Southampton is genuinely the dullest place I've ever been to. It's not a shithole or anything, it's just so relentlessly ****ing bland. Milton Keynes-on-Sea

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1 hour ago, Stadt said:

Per capita it's worse than almost all of those. 

 

Pub drinkers are overwhelmingly white British and Leicester's is 33% WB, plus the university drinking scene is pretty dead in town.

And people from the county don’t really come in to town

 

Leicester Uni is really small for a city uni and most DMU students seem to go back to London and Birmingham every weekend 

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Miquel The Work Geordie

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1 hour ago, Chris_OGrady said:

yeh fair. I imagine Stoke and Bradford perform similar. London obv has great pubs, but per capita does it perform as strongly? For me York is number one based on this metric. 

Bradford is decent; I'd argue better than Leicester in terms of quality gaffs but that might just be because I'm so familiar with Leicester.

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I also don't really think Leicester is helped by having one massive brewery in Everards whose pubs by and large have the same offering, save a few (Black Horse in Aylestone as an example). Go the Old Horse, Marquis, Globe, Western, Black Horse (B Gate) and the beers will barely vary. All perfectly decent enough pubs but there's nothing enticing a crawl out of me there.

 

On the reverse of that, go to any Castle Rock pub in Notts and they've got bloody loads of stuff sat alongside their own beers. 

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7 minutes ago, Chris_OGrady said:

Also Leicester doesn't really benefit from tourism or hen/stags

Doesn't help that if you come into town on the train you have a horrible walk from the station, past that tower block with the spice heads and bag heads sat outside and then the top end of Granby which is equally as bad. Don't bother my as I'm 16st with a shaved head but it doesn't look the most inviting

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The best crawl is starting from the castle,  Rutland and Derby,  two tailed lion and finally the Blue Boar.

Ale Wagon I would argue is unique and Real Ale Classroom is a moderately good addition to the city.

We do okay for pubs but my biggest issue is the number of drinkers we have. I do my best to up the numbers.

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Miquel The Work Geordie

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22 minutes ago, guest123 said:

Doesn't help that if you come into town on the train you have a horrible walk from the station, past that tower block with the spice heads and bag heads sat outside and then the top end of Granby which is equally as bad. Don't bother my as I'm 16st with a shaved head but it doesn't look the most inviting

 

I'm 12stone with hair and it doesn't bother me, I'm the bravest

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2 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Plus throw in poor transport links to the wider county.

Yeah this is also important. Wigston is the only suburb with a station and even that isn't located optimally. 

 

There's no way somebody from say Coalville could go into town midweek for a beer without driving or getting a £40 taxi. A bus takes the test part of an hour

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