The Crown, Melton Mowbray

Two-roomed Everard's local next to the church on a street that was once lined with pubs. But only 3 are still open. I chose to sit in the main bar to the left as you enter, which had a few locals in. Tiger & Sunchaser were the 2 real ales. My half of Tiger was in good condition. Not too bad.

I got the impression that the Crown was very much the town local. I arrived here around 11:00 on a Saturday morning to find quite a few already in. It's hard to say what function the two rooms originally had but I went in the larger square front room which is where all the locals were. I noticed a juke box and a TV which was thankfully turned off. The bar has five hand pumps which had one unused, Bateman's XB, and Everard's Old Original, Tiger & Beacon Hill. I went for the Tiger (£3.20) which was in excellent nick. Everard's dont seem to have duff pubs and I thought this was another good one.