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The Mini Monocle, Loughborough

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39b Market Street
Loughborough
LE11 3ER

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Loughborough Town

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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Mini Monocle

Micro-pub in the Tudorbethan-frontaged former Barley Mow pub / music venue with just enough room for a compact stage by the window. That leaves little room for seating, but there are also a couple of small metal tables out on the pavement. Up to seven real ales in a range of styles are served from taps mounted on half casks mounted on the back wall, with six of these in use when we called in. After some discussion, I tried the last of the 5.9% Bohemian Dark Export from Leatherbritches (£3.50, half) but that turned out to still be in good shape.

On 13^th February 2026 - rating: 7
[User has posted 9041 recommendations about 9041 pubs]

Will Larter left this review about The Mini Monocle

This was one of four pubs I visited in Loughborough seven years ago but didn't get around to writing a review; at the time it was called Cask Bah, which is barely less explicable than its current moniker. It's one of several small businesses that occupy what was clearly one large building back in the day, quite possibly a pub with it's mock tudor upper floor and brick and stone ground floor. As soon as I stepped into the porch that the Mini Monocle shares with the potato bar next door the smell brought a memory flooding back. The pub is in a pretty small room with a drum kit in the window, the front panel from a Marshall stack on one wall and a telephone kiosk door in the corner leading to the toilet. The gloomy interior of the pub is enlivened by a row of barrel ends on the back wall. The beers are in a cool room behind, and the beer I asked for was near the end, as the very helpful and friendly young server told us. Leatherbritches Bohemian Dark Export 5.9%, a strong, old ale was one of five or six beers in collapsible polypins, and although there was not much more than a pint left, it was still in very good nick, as my drinking companion and I found out after having been encouraged by our server to check it before she asked us to pay for it (NBSS 4, £7/pint). Looking around we found evidence of live music as well as beer; luckily at the time of our visit it was just beer. This is a pub that I wouldn't mind revisiting, but I dread to think what it's like if there's a band on.

On 6^th February 2026 - rating: 6
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Old Boots left this review about The Mini Monocle

A small eccentric music bar, a small stage with equipment sits in the front window, it’s fairly small and counts as a micro I guess. Not much to add to the fulsome previous reviews, no free shots from the heavily tattooed barmaid however. It is difficult to see what’s on the seven cask ends especially when the Nottingham brewery ones are renamed after rock giants like Ozzy. I plumped for a Leatherbritches beer which was fine but maybe over conditioned. The door to the unisex toilet came from an old telephone box. Nice heavy metal sounds so my usual moans about constant music don’t apply here and I liked the rock/steampunk/goth decor. I didn’t check if the wall mounted Marshall amp went up to 11.

On 25^th April 2025 - no rating submitted
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Loughborough (Leics), 0.96 miles, 18 min walk (show)
Barrow upon Soar, 3.67 miles, 1 hr 10 min walk (show)
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13th Feb 2026, 14:48

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8th Feb 2026, 15:12

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