Queens Counsel, Ilkeston

Awful town centre pub. Inside is a single room with an upstairs part I never visited. The ground floor consists of a smallish room with an area laid out with hideous brown fake leather armchairs and sofas plus a dance floor area. Shiny chrome taps dispense keg-u-likes plus a single real ale handpull dispensing a tired national. All in all its rubbish.

I put my head around the door, having caught a glimpse of hand pumps through the window. However, there was only Old Rosie Cider available, the other two pumps being devoid of pump clips. They may, like others, have simply run out of beer over Christmas and not had any ready to put on. May be worth trying again, but this row of pubs along the market square are all much of a muchness and there are better elsewhere in Ilson. Date of attempted visit: 27th December 2017