A guided tour of Leicester pubs with Mick Slaughter
10 pubs are in the 2025 Good Beer Guide and there are two pubs on CAMRA’s Outstanding Conversions website.
Visit as many or as few as you want. Some pubs are a bus ride away from the city but a good value PlusBus ticket is available.


Contact Mick at moc.tenretnitb@7rethguals.m for details

Meet at Peterborough Station at 10.30 to buy a flexible Peterborough to Leicester Off Peak Day Return without a Railcard costs £29.80 / with a Railcard the price is £19.80 - there are advanced single tickets available but they only bring the cost down to £25. Also, a PlusBus Leicester ticket £3.50 (£2.30 Railcard).

10.54 11.54 Peterborough Platform 7 11.49 12.49 Leicester

Walk to Rail Station Stand EE - Bus 44 at 12.04 - 7 stops to Clarendon Park Road stop and nearby is 12.15 to 12.40 Queens Road Tap, 109 Queens Road, Clarendon Park, Leicester LE2 1TT - micropub owned by Tollgate Brewery - Closed Mon; opens at 4 Tue to Thu; 3 Fri; 12 Sat; 2 Sun (website) - no phone – up to five changing real ales Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 11 mins to 12.50 to 1.20 Old Horse, 198 London Road, Leicester LE2 1NE - former coaching inn with good value food - 11 to 11.30 Sat - 0116 254 8384 - Everards Tiger, Old Original, Sunchaser and one or two guest beers and real draught ciders Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 6 mins to 1.25 to 1.45 Marquis Wellington, 139 London Road, Leicester LE2 1EF - historic pub with decorated façade -12 to 11 - 0116 254 0542 - Everards Tiger, Old Original, Sunchaser and one or two guest beers - Card Only

Walk 2 mins to Saxby Street Stand A - Bus 31 at 13.49 (or Bus 31A, X3) - six stops to Knighton Road and walk 6 mins to 2.00 to 2.20 Real Ale Classroom, 22 Allandale Road, Stoneygate, Leicester LE2 2DA - micropub - opens at 4 Mon to Fri; 1 Sat - 0116 319 6998 - three real ales from microbreweries and draught ciders Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 9 mins to Knighton Road Stop - Bus 31A at 14.34 - nine stops to Charles Street stop and nearby is 2.50 to 3.10 Ale Wagon, 27 Rutland Street, Leicester LE1 1RE - has a 1930s interior - 11 to 2.00; 4.30 to 10.30 - Sat 11 to 11 - 0116 262 3330 – four Hoskins real ales (brewed by Shipstones) and four changing real ales Good Beer Guide 2025

Nearby is 3.10 to 3.30 Real Ale Classroom, 34 Rutland Street, City Centre, Leicester LE1 1RD - recently opened micropub - opens at 1 (12 Fri, Sat) - 0116 221 5863 (answerphone) - four real ales

Walk 5 mins to 3.35 to 4.25 Corn Exchange, Market Place, Leicester LE1 5GG - Wetherspoons Grade II* listed FOOD former Corn Exchange - 0116 253 8533 - four changing real ales

Walk 8 mins to 4.35 to 4.55 Salmon, 19 Butt Close Lane, Leicester LE1 4QA - refurbished into a single U-shaped room now owned by Black Country Ales - 12 to 11 – 0116 216 2788 – four Black Country real ales and five changing beers, also two draught ciders Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 7 mins to If time allows Café Bruxelles, 90-92 High Street, Leicester LE1 5YP - Converted from a branch of the Birmingham & Provincial Bank built 1903 with an impressive, ornate, domed ceiling – only opens Fri & Sat from 4pm to 3.30am - 0116 253 1325 - no real ale but lots of Belgian beers Outstanding Conversion

Walk 7 mins to 5.10 to 5.30 Wygston’s House, 12 Applegate, Leicester LE1 5LD - Grade II* listed and was a timber-framed merchant's house - 11 to 10 - 0116 262 2231 – four changing real ales Outstanding Conversion

Walk 10 mins to 5.40 to 6.00 Black Horse, 1 Foxon Street, Braunstone Gate, Leicester LE3 5LT - traditional pub with two bars - opens at 3 Mon to Thu; 12 Fri, Sat - 0116 254 0446 (answerphone) - three Everards real ales and possibly one or two changing real ales Good Beer Guide 2025

Nearby is If time allows Metal Monacle, 59 Braunstone Gate, Leicester LE3 5LH - steampunk rock bar - opens at 4 12 Sat - 0116 429 24445 (doesn’t work) - two changing real ales often a Leatherbritches one

Walk 8 mins to 6.10 to 6.30 Castle, 8-9 Castle View, Leicester LE1 5WH - conversion of a Grade II listed building into a small bar - 12 to 11 (website) – no phone – possibly three real ales Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 7 mins to 6.35 to 6.55 Two Tailed Lion, 22 Millstone Lane, Leicester LE1 5JN - small pub - Closed Mon, Tue; opens at 3 Wed, Thu; 12 to 11 Fri, Sat - 0116 262 5567 (answerphone) - three real ales Good Beer Guide 2025

Nearby is 6.55 to 7.15 Blue Boar, 16 Millstone Lane, Leicester LE1 5JN - micropub opened in 2016 - 11 to 11 - no phone - lots of real ales Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 6 mins to 7.20 to 7.40 Kings Head, 36 King Street, Leicester LE1 6RL - pub expanded by Black Country Ales - sells filled cobs - 12 to 11 - 0116 216 2789 - Black Country real ales and lots of guest beers from microbreweries Good Beer Guide 2025

Walk 11 mins to station 18.12 19.12 20.12 21.12 Leicester Platform 2 19.07 20.07 21.07 22.07 Peterborough