Swan and Rushes, Leicester - pub details
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Address: Infirmary Square, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1 5WR [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 32041)
Leicester (0.6 miles), South Wigston (3.4 miles), Narborough (5.3 miles)
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> Current user rating: 8.5/10 (rated by 11 users)
> Local guide: Leicester pub guide
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user reviews of Swan and Rushes, Leicester
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| Excellent range of cask ales, real cider and an enormous range of foreign bottled ale which is supported by a bottled beer menu with tasting notes. Regular cheese and cider festivals as well as German beer festivals. Not to be missed if you're in Leicester. aehihc - 19 Dec 2008 06:17 |
| Fantastic boozer located near the hospital. From what I have read the lease has been taken over? Well you would never have known, the two blokes running things behind the bar were friendly and knowledgable. 6 or 7 real ales that I could see available, I enjoyed a Tollgate offering and a fantastic pint or 3 of Oakham Bishops Farewell. Not just the standard selection of Belgian Beers either with numerous small bottles and also many unusual 750ml bottles that I haven't come across before. Was gutted to leave in the end, especially as the Bar Billiards table had become free once more (we had played several times earlier in the evening). We were invited back to participate in a tournement. Might just do so. Sharp - 13 Nov 2008 22:52 |
| Went to recent Cider & Cheese fest. Usual high standard. Sorry couldn't have stopped longer. Leicesterbeer - 29 Aug 2008 18:10 |
| About a 10 minute walk from the city centre and train station. Triangular-shaped two roomed pub just off Oxford Street. The kind of pub that caters for all kinds of tastes, and does so successfully. Very comfortable feel to the place. You wouldn't be out of place here with your mates pre-game at the Tigers, post work with colleagues, on a Saturday night watching live Blues, or working your way through the extensive bottled beer menu reading your newspaper. The bottled beer menu covers Belgian Lambics, German smoked, to American super-hopped. Very impressive. Draught beer has regulars of Oakham JHB, Oakham Bishops, Batemans XB or XXB, and there are up to 4 or 5 guests from the likes of Abbeydale, Grainstore, Newby Wyke, Oldershaws... Very well kept at Sensible prices. Keg is Warsteiner lager, Blanche de Bruxelles, Barbar, Guinness, and Samuel Smiths cider. I almost forgot the real ciders from the cellar. I've been coming back here for the 7 or 8 years the current landlord has been running the place and never had a bad pint. The staff are polite. Food. The Sunday roasts, and fish and chips on fridays are winners, but the Wednesday curries are rather disappointing (they appear to be warmed-up left overs). Regular German beer and Cider & Cheese festivals. Slake - 7 May 2008 22:50 |
| Nice dark wood bar, solid light wood tables, two-roomed pub with great ale selection and, apparently, ~140 bottled beers in the many fridges which wind around behind the bar. The ‘menu’ may not always be bang up to date but, from reading a tda review, the prices seemed fair, eg Rochefort8 £3.20. On handpump Oakham No Bully Dozer, JHB, Bishops Farewell, New-K-Ham Brewery Puffin, Bateman’s Salem Porter, Burton Bridge Festival, Sam Smiths OBB, Bees Amber Ale. Bar billiards table, soundtrack included Adagio for Strings followed by some cracking blues. Friendly, and beer friendly, barman who was happy to chat, great value Sun lunch suggested roasts (beef/pork/duck) at £6.95. trainman - 5 May 2008 12:19 |
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