The Leicester Arms, Leagrave, Luton

Called in of an afternoon after being at the hospital. Sports on several televisions but fairly quiet. No real ale available.

The Leicester Arms page at the Sizzling Pubs site - www.sizzlingpubs.co.uk

The Leicester Arms page at the Sizzling Pubs site - www.sizzlingpubs.co.uk

Large roadside eatery pub in the mould of a beefeater on the Dunstable Road a short distance from J11 of the M1. This one is actually owned by the Sizzling pub chain which apparently have over 200 pubs in the chain around the country. Which, from what I could see, has the usual plastic deep fried and grilled comfort food menu more associated with Wetherspoons and Hungry Horse e.t.c. As the pubs own web site has their direction as offering unbeatable value and quality for people around Leagrave, Dunstable & Sundon Park and to offer the best burgers in Luton , you get the picture to what their position and the target demographic is. Anyway, it was comfortable and clean enough on the early evening I decided to stop off. A large internal space, subdivided into several sections, a couple with teles and a large plazma screen. And the bar did support three handpumps although only two were utilised. Youngs bitter and Brakspears Gold were on offer and the Youngs was OK albeit served too cold as these places invariably do.