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Blue Bell Inn, Melton Mowbray
Hoby
Postal town: Melton Mowbray
LE14 3DT
Served areas
Reviews of Blue Bell Inn (Average Rating: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
Quinno _ left this review about Blue Bell Inn
‘Chocolate box’ style exterior including a thatched roof. Oddly, the main door locked shut and you have to enter via the rear – I genuinely thought the place was closed when I passed on mid-afternoon visit and would have moved on if I hadn’t had the foresight to peer through the windows. Two rooms, red and white paint, along with a quarry floor and ‘scrubbed rustic’ exposed wood beams. Nicely carved wooden bar back. Piano with a telly on top showing the snooker to a small gaggle of locals. Skittle alley. Four Everards ales on the go which seemed a stretch on a Monday afternoon but I got GBG quality across the three sampled - Sunchaser (NBSS 4), Tiger (3.5) and Eclipse (3). I enjoyed my stop here, it was a nice pub to have a few drinks in.
On 24th July 2026
- rating: 8
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Ian Mapp left this review about Blue Bell Inn
Good Beer Guide 2021 Entry - Everards House and their range was on. Tiger was in perfect condition.
Lovely beer garden - where they are still offering table service for drinks/food. Great service but it did deprive me of a mooch around inside.
The food was excellent and quickly served. £16 for a ploughmans gives you some idea to the amount of content - as it was still reasonable value for money.
Nice village pub.
On 8th August 2021
- rating: 7
[User has posted 1889 recommendations about 1850 pubs]
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Blue Bell Inn
The Blue Bell is the only pub in the village of Hoby and it is run by Everard's.
We sat outside in the garden, which slopes down towards the valley. There are great views and a few petanque pits. Beers are all from Everard's - Old Original, Beacon Hill, Tiger & Sunchaser. The cider is Old Rosie. The interior looked dark and traditional.
Covid precautions are a little strange. After walking through the pub to order at the bar, we were instructed to take a seat and wait for somebody to take our order. Unlike many places, our order was taken quickly and our drinks arrived quickly. But when asked for the bill, the waitress directed us to pay at the bar. If this process is in place to reduce people's trips to the bar, it failed dramatically for us, as we ended up making 2 trips, instead of the single trip we would have made in pre-Covid times. A little common sense is called for.
On 2nd September 2020
- rating: 6
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- Accommodation : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Bar Billiards : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Beer Festivals : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- CAMRA Discount : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Car Park : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Darts : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Function Room : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Jukebox : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Live Music : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Live TV Sports : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Micropub : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Pinball : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Pool Table : No last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
- Real Cider : Yes last updated 02 September 2020 by Blue Scrumpy
- WiFi : Yes last updated 24 July 2026 by Quinno _
