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The Blue Boar, Leicester
Leicester
LE1 5JN
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8½ of 10) see review guidelines
Ian Mapp left this review about The Blue Boar
Not the best time to visit - 10pm on a the first weekend night after new year - there was only one other punter - and she looked like she had been there an awful long time.
A single roomed micro but with a pubby feel. Not sure about the patio door keeping the cellar separated.
Maps of old leicester on the walls. An electronic scoreboard lots and lot of choice. St Barnadus and Delirium Xmas Ale detailed at £12.50 a pint.
Maybe thats what my drinking partner had been on :-)
On 8th January 2024
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Steve C left this review about The Blue Boar
The Blue Boar is a small floorboarded single room open plan pub with a mix of standard and high furniture, some of which is made out of old barrels. The walls are wood panelled, a wooden bench runs along the left-hand wall and a beer shelf runs along the right. There are lots of framed old maps of Leicester interspersed with multiple award certificates up on the walls. According to the drinks list on the TV screen, the bar counter along the rear wall was supporting nine cask and four nitro products during my recent midweek evening visit. I went for Beowulf Brewing’s Finn’s Hall Porter which went down well. The food stretches to rolls on the bar. If you’re looking for love I’d probably give this place a miss, but if a few decent pints take your fancy then come on in.
On 7th March 2023
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about The Blue Boar
Cobs, cheeseboards and lots of dark beer. 8 cask plus keg. Our Brass Castle Trinitario (NBSS 4) and Totally Brewed Into The Portal (3.5) went down well. Surprisingly busy for a midweek afternoon with a nice bunch of drinkers in situ. Is this now central Leicester’s best cask pub? Might well be. 8.5
August 2019
A newish (2019) Leicester micro-ish pub, bizarrely lit in UV as you approach which makes it look more like a cocktail and shots bar. Enter to a straightforward single room. Light wood heavy – floor, panelling and bar. Some simple unfussy bench seating and a couple of large barrels for those who want to stand to perch their beverage on. Tasteful decor majoring in old maps aerial photographs of Leicester. No music; sometimes a blessing, othertimes a slightly weird curse, I got both extremes here in the hour or so I stayed. Nine handpumps with a stock of micro and small regionals at the bar, presided over by the friendly owner. I went for Titanic Plum Porter (NBSS 3), Beowulf Porter (3) and Nene Valley IPA (3.5). Also proper cider and a key keg sampled from Twisted Barrel. Cobs available for 2 quid. I enjoyed my visit here and it also got the thumbs-up from Mrs Quinno too, an evening more discerning punter than me. 7.5 Rated 8
On 12th November 2022
- rating: 9
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Blue Boar
I still rate this micropub as the best pub in Leicester. It's a fairly large and simple, square-shaped room, with the bar at the rear. Cask ales and craft beers are all listed on TV screens, whilst real ciders can be found listed at the side of the bar.
With tables and bench seating on the left-hand side and taller tables suitable for upright drinking in the centre, there is plenty of space, even with the usual number of customers late on a Sunday afternoon after the football match. Service from the single barmaid was swift, despite the numbers and she was even happy to make us extra cobs which we devoured on the train back home.
Regular real ales are Shiny Rocky & Beowulf Finn's Hall Porter. Guests were 8 Sail Doomed Baa, Blue Bee Reet Pale, Beowulf Black Cherry, Wensleydale High Fives, Salamander Gecko Gecko, Alter Ego Future Sailor & Mr Brown & Church End Grave Digger's Ale. Ciders were Abrahall's Thundering Molly, Biddenden Dry & Lilley's Tropical Cider. Craft beers were S43 Windowsill of Conspiracy & Alter Ego Stockholm Syndrome.
On 13th May 2022
- rating: 9
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custodian 42 left this review about The Blue Boar
Fine place. No frills with the bar to the rear. Nine real ales and some craft on the wall. Definitely worth a revisit.
On 19th March 2020
- rating: 7
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Danny O'Revey left this review about The Blue Boar
Stripped bare boarded pub, small, many beers shown on big screen. High barrel tables set for standing around in the middle, other areas for goups.
On 9th November 2019
- rating: 7
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Bucking Fastard left this review about The Blue Boar
Opened in 2016 ,CAMRA branch POTY in 2018 and a must visit if you care about top quality real ale.Formerly an office,the square room is well described below and although calling itself a micro,I've been to lots of smaller pubs.A huge display of hops both on a roof beam and above the bar give you the focus here,although ciders and wines are well represented too.
Leatherbritches brew the house beers,sold at £2.90 and called Blue Boar(standard bitter),Packhorse (session pale) and a Best Bitter but these brews are cheap for a reason and nothing to write home about.However what caught the eye were the 9 guests ales from outstanding brewers such as on my trip Wilde Child ,Squark,XT (their M was an outstanding strong IPA 6.4%),Arbor (Breakfast Stout sumptious and drinkable at 7.4% ) with more options from Hartshorns and Beowulf.Expect many of these guest ales to be high ABV and out there in terms of flavour and prices will reflect strength.There will also be unfined ales which may catch the unwary,but the bar staff are excellent at highlighting issues before pouring.
Millstone Lane is popular with many GBG hangouts,but from my point of view this is the outstanding choice.The guests will rotate but the owners can be trusted to stock only from highly respected brewers.I could have stayed all night and next time I probably will.
On 25th February 2019
- rating: 9
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Alex Conway left this review about The Blue Boar
The Blue Bore is one of the newest pubs in Leicester City Centre and has just recently won the Leicester Pub of the year award from the local Camra branch so I was Eager to try it out. Located on the popular drinking stretch Millstone lane it brands itself as a Micro Pub but is on the larger end of the scale and muck h more like a small city boozer than a micro. The inside is just one square room with the bar at the back wall. The interior is all wooden with a hard wood floor and half and half wooden walls and whitewashed tops. There is scattered bench and chair seating and converted hogshead into tables with a lot of standing room only as seating is limited. The beer selection is very good with 9 hand pulls dispensing mostly beers with one or two traditional ciders thrown in for good measure. The beers are stored in a see-through cellar behind the bar and not all pumps are attached to the barrel and the barman has to go and collect beers on gravity dispense from the back. Leatherbitches brew a house bitter that is always available and possibly a pale from another brewery but aside from that all beers regularly change. On my last two visits I have sampled Moa from the Shiny Brewery and Hazelnut Mild from Brass Castle each at £3.60 which is about the going rate for most of the average strength guest beers. I hate to report that both pints sampled a few months apart were fine and drinkable but distinctly average and not up the quality standards I would associate with a city pub of the year with he Moa being a little on the hazy side. This was a real shame as it is a rather nice down to earth city boozer with a good selection, the only problem being that on a Saturday evening the hard surface nature of the pub made it absolutely deafening and minimal conversation was amplified to uncomfortable levels. Overall compared to the pretty non existents good pub competition in Leicester this can only be considered a good place but with so so beer I’m afraid it has failed to really impress on two occasions. I would pop by if around the area as its one of the definite better pubs in the area but pub of the year? I think that’s more down to lack of viable competition. Broood has much better quality beer but in less than great surroundings. I prefer this pub much more than the beer it sells, a few cellar tweaks and it could be a real gem but at current id only rate it as decent.
On 17th September 2018
- rating: 7
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andy plant left this review about The Blue Boar
We were on one day visit to Leicester and managed to call in three times to this clean simple relaxed pub close tot he city centre/ 10 hand pumps all serving quality small brewery beers, including their own. The beers were clean and fresh from a range of Midland breweries and a variety of types of beer. Staff and customers were pleasant and welcoming On the lunchtime we also tried their lovely snack food with quality pork pie and nice cheese board. Happy to recommend to any beer lovers
On 19th August 2018
- rating: 10
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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Blue Boar
We called here on Saturday morning around 11.30 and a few of the locals were in having some banter with the two barmen, so I took to the pub straight away. The interior is quite spacious for a micro along with two toilets, which is also a plus for the ladies. The pub didn't have any music playing or gaming machines and the food served was in the form of over filled cheese and onion and ham and salad cobs, on the bar at only £2 each. There was also a few pork pies to be had. Nine handpumps along the bar on our visit, so we went for an extremely good pint of Leatherbritches Ashbourne IPA and then onto a Nene Valley Jim's Little Brother. The Blue Boar has recently opened a sister pub called the Ale Stone in Aylstone, which is a ten minute bus ride away.
On 18th September 2017
- rating: 9
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