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• Wetherspoons is my favorite place for cheep dinks and good atmosphere
• Three Nuns, boys 'n girls... good, local atmosphere; busy; shows relevant sport channels; alright smoking area; safe, close parking; no Chavs and Goths anymore either! The only place I know in Charnwood where you can have a traditional meal, which is large, fresh, tasty, healthy and hot - Good Lamb shank, good chicken and veg and excellent filling curry dishes. Not the best curry though, for Indian - across the road is the Taste of India - very good. Eurobar is awesome for good house when you want to get lost in your thoughts and in the beat... watch you don't dance close to the stage, lest you get puked on. Other Loughborough advice for pubs - when the pub's manager is around, drink the beer he drinks.
• The Orange tree has always been Loughborough's greatest pub, and always will be!
• J.C.s
• most pubs have daily offers on which is great its not exspensive to go out at all and alot of the pubs do two meals for a fiver and there not tight!!
• The New Griffin - by a long country mile, the best bar in this town. It makes the Orange Tree look old and tired.
• The Griffin in its many guises has been a true friend. From Dave Mitchell and Dale Wintons days (nicest bloke in the world by the way), to its current management. Must say its homely feel has been assisted by the ever present Dave. I for one feel this town would be worse off without this mans dry wit, excellent quizes and downright hatred for pretty much everyone!
• The Beauchief with me sian and kt
• The best night in loughborough at the moment is bar europa, every other week they have housebound, the djs and music are quality, its a chav-free zone and they dont rip you on the drinks. generally just feels like a party in there, beats pulse any day!
• 12 degrrees and its fresh faced cliental rocks! they're not 2 annoying and the beer's cheap
• i don't know why people think its surprising lough is full of younger looking 18 yr olds. it's obviously the type of cider sold in the offy, has like an anti ageing thing. phantom's good, griffin went thru a rough patch...is no way near coming out but still good fun actually. orange tree...they do look a bit older in here actually....not as much cider maybe?
• orange tree is fresh
• Phantom, amazing place!
• Yeah right, I got served in a pub when I was 12- think it was called the Royal George on Nottingham Rd.
• We're a group of lads who visit loughie for 2 weeks every 2 weeks. we love the nights out. You rarely pay more than a quid a pint get wrecked for less than 20 quid everyones a winner. True there are a few inbreds lurking in the dark corners of the rooms but avoid these urine smelling nomads and your laughing. Our nights consist of mondays- unicorn, come and watch the old ledgend break dancing like a crazy mofo. Get kicked out around 11 and pop into vice-versa till you drop. By the way our man b@#$$y f*x is lookin for a bit of dj work if the right people are reading this! Thursday is our other regular night out. Get ruined in amber room, turbo shandies for less than 3 dollar. good night mate! The gallery puts up with us for an hour or so belting out some tunes on the kareoke then finish off in pulse or vice-versa which then is the most expensive part of the week. If you fancy joining us come along to one of the venues above and look for 10 rowdy good lookin men singin dancin and gambling(busted). See ya round!!!
• Amber Rooms. Two meals for the price of one. Great. Food's not bad, either.
• The Griffin has risen, phoenix-like, from the flames in the last year and a half, and is well on its way to restoring its fallen reputation as the best pub in town for students and locals alike. Saturday nights and the quiz on Sunday remain as popular as ever.
• It's not in Loughborough but the Bull's Head in Woodhouse Eaves has a great carvery a\nd is great place to walk to from the Outwoods
• THE PHANTOM, awesome on a sunday, pound a pint of carling and cider and some bitter, then most bottles are a pound aswell, will have you nursing a hangover for work the next day with just 15 squids in yer skyrocket
• Acaraz is the new one.
• The best place in luffa is Amber Rooms, cheap drinks, wicked atmosphere. Used to love the Unicorn, the old managers have left now so not the same. Kym and Ryan we want you to come back, its crap in there now without you 2. Barracudas ok on a Thursday, only a pound a pint. All the clubs are crap, dont even bother, try Vice Versa. Its a wicked place now, used to be better as Busters though.
• 12 Degrees West, across the road from the ferrari garage. Always a varied range of events going on with some great guest beers AND Hoegaarden on tap..excellent.
• A VERY nice new pub has opened in the new "Rushes" complex called "The Amber Rooms". It's a Wetherspoons owned place and has a smallish dancefloor, big space to drink in and a no-smoking area where it's a bit quieter if you just want to chill and chat. Certainly beats any pub in Loughborough I've been in so far. Drinks are reasonable - cheaper than The Griffin anyway.
• The Swan in Mountsorrel, good beer GREAT food!
• that new place a the rushes looks fancy.
• hm start off down moor lane, on to peggies n bitter end, bit of slap n tikle then off down casa n piked up by mum at 11
• Orange Tree, but best of all is BAR ZERO on thursday nights, the uk garage,rnb and hip-hop kills it off, im telling you its the place to be before white room!
• three nuns, phantom
• the gallery
• EHB shit beer shit price
• The rose and crown..A very overlooked pub that is waiting to be taken over by us..fri and sat attracts an older crowd but the week is free rane and could make for a great hang out. It was just refurnied at the beginning of 03.
• do not go into BARLEYS. its a BAD place. Drunk 40 year olds in miniskirts and tight jeans (and thats just the men) hugging you and singing kariokee badly. *grimace* The Griffin is where most people go, but its over priced and they don't mix the drinks properly (or indeed at all!)
• I used to work part time aftr college in the maltings and can report it is a dump
• Garton Inn - under new management. No longer shit.
• The Moon and Bell. Unbeatable prices for the Reef Challenge.
• ***three nuns has a great amtmosphere....even thought the rugby team can take over now and again. theres a great punk crowd and beers cheap. Also the blacksmiths or as its called now TAT or something. it had a rad punk night and it also has a punk crowd even though some dick heads go in there
• Llodys, gallery, unicorn and vise versa all the others are full of goths or kids.
• Barley Mow went steeply downhill after it's latest change of landlord: gone are the Giant Jenga, live music nights, colourful paintwork, decent prices + offers and the friendly welcome. It's time may come again, it's just not what it used to be! Warehouse bar is now Barracuda bar and v.nice - live music (Thurs), cheap, decent cocktail offers (Tues, I think). It's a good bar to sit and chill with mates in, plus does good food during the day. Used to be quite townie, but becomming more student-y (but not too much tho!). The Swan (opposite Moomba in 'The Rushes') is a lovely place! Quite a 'traditional', 'old-man's-pub' but that's part of it's appeal! Holds beer festivals. The Albion (along the canal - lovely situation) also a 'traditional' pub. Does GREAT home-cooked food; has lovely friendly landlord; and is a 'Real Ale' pub. Also has aviary in the beer-garden housing birds and a large rabbit!
• BEST PUBS IN LUFBRA ARE THE PHANTOM AND THE HOBGOBLIN. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT. DONT GO INTO THE BITTER END - THEY WILL CARRY U OUT IN A BOX.
• no-one mentioned barracuda bar,its expensive but kareoke on monday is pretty cool. And everyone HAS to try the choc/mint vodka in the custard bar,yummy
• a new place called "The News House" has opened, it's a bit Central Perk and a bit snobby, but the food is nice - they do great chiabattas for about four quid (a little expensive, but they are NICE!). the drinks prices are extortionate. not much seating either, but they do have live music once a week. but then, if you want live music, you can go listen to the tramp with a sax near the statue of the bloke with a sock.
• Gotta mention the Swan in the Rushes. It's predominantly a locals pub but is one of the few REAL pubs left in town. Sells good beer and excellent food; the jukebox is ok too. It's got a good atmosphere and you can actually sit down and have a good laugh with your mates without having to shout at the top of your voice!
• Barley Mow. Pap. Clientelle? Fat arsed, rosy nosed and swaying. Serving this town's single figure IQ scally morons was a a particular pleasure; just knowing that the vast selection of deep fried shite from Iceland they shouvelled down their gullets was denying them thier golden years. Oh and the University Sub-culture mentioned above.....How ironic
• so....... ur guide completely ignores the SWAN IN THE RUSHES......by far the best pub in town, opposite the cruddy new australian bar thingy..Part of the camra approved liberated free house TYNEMILL GROUP, has gr8 food, fantastic beer , nice but crowded at times atmosphere, live music , accomadation. Check it out!
• plenty of pubs but the three nuns is always chillin
• Well no one seems to have mentioned the wonderful Royal george. the pub that we didn't go to when we were 16. a class place that had a shit brown ceiling, but 40p a game of pool and classic signs behind the bar such as 'don't take the piss out of the beer, it needs all the flavour that it's got!' take a visit and it'll make u appreciate the rest of Lufbra. Th three nuns (aka 6tits) a pub i was very fond of (apart from the bitch barmaid) the place that you would always see Mr Gay, the Burleigh math teacher alcoholic. lovely place with the wierdest mix of people.
• A very up-to-date update on the best new pub to hit Loughborough has to be The Phantom, (used to be the Phantom and Firkin) up past Pulse and Amigos. An It's a Scream pub with great prices for students and great atmosphere!
• Nearly every pub in Loughborough is full of nazis who've had one to many(and I'm not saying what of!) The only ones worth a look these days are The Orange Tree, The Newshouse, The Garton & The Phantom. The only place going after 11 is Bar Europa, but only to see Gary and dance on the tables (know what I mean)
• The barley man - bright, expensive, and rarly packed - good place to get pissed in quickly
• The Griffin Inn. It's an institution.
• The Swan in the Rushes for a chilled out night, brilliant juke box and a real beer drinkers pub, Wans Cottage is just over the road too.
• Big fan of The Blacksmiths... has been a cracking pub for years. The Garton Inn used to be alright when it was the Tap and Spile but it's a real doghole now. I went in there for the first time in ages the other day and had to paddle through half an inch of piss to take a leak! Like The Warehouse, The Swan in the Rushes and The Orange Tree, but if you want a really good pub in the Loughborough area, go to The Swan in Mountsorrel... fantastic ale, fantastic food and the staff are ace.
• New pub, the news house, weird shape inside but i could see it becoming a regular for students and the more mature drinkers in Loughborough-over 18's then. Serious lack of signs in there now, yetme and a good majority of a group of my friends all have bedrooms called the news house. strange that.
• Don't go to the griffin if you are a skater my mates dad owns the place so he knows most of us and will ask his son if you are old enough and if he lies hell get flogged So don't Yet Go to the Three NUns MAny skaters Spend their drinking money here. Plus its right next to the graveyard so you can tell some spooky storys.
• Can I just say that Flan O`Brians is no longer it is called bar 32 now and it dose a pint picher of vodka and redbull for only £7.00
• Busters is no more. What a tragedy. But wait...what's this? A huge new pub in its place known as Vice Versa - surely it won't have the same crowd of "fresh-faced" young people and scumbag mutants? Well......
• The Griffin Quiz (Sundays, 8:30pm) is the best of its kind in town, by about a million miles. If you like winning money, beer, crap t-shirts, and hearing the quizmaster swear profusely and take the piss out of all the teams (and even his own questions), this is the place to be.
• 3 Nuns for goths, rockers, sk8ers and the like. Watch out for the grumpy barmaid!
• The White Horse used to be good for pool, also the greyhound had a good Juke Box. I also remember a large pub on King Street with a full size snooker Table upstairs. ..Ah good years..
• Busters - NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. The Moon And Bell - Great pub but busy after 10ish. Prices are crazy. Blacksmiths - Good beer and the place is nicley quite during the week.
• Custard Bar sells Absinthe which is a bonus. Unfortunately, they've put the price up to 4quid a shot! The Orange Tree is nice - big sofas, great cocktails.
• Best places to go include Rickenbackers ( watch out though- gay night on tuesdays and toplees bar-girls night on thursdays...)if u like noise- and the tacky american diner interior, the rose and crown if u want a quiet drink and the bitter end if u don't.
• Orange Tree - decent live music sometimes on sunday nights and funky cocktails. comfy sofas and a wicked heated beer garden. Weatherspoons - no muzak, plenty of drinks (doubles £2.00) nice people work there Garton Inn (Its a scream) - Student deals fly every where at this place. cheep beer,big screen TV etc etc.. Bar Europa - God Damn Funky. Blacksmith Arms - Good traditional pub Moomba - 'Australian' (bollocks it is) Custard Bar - Little too pretentious Griffin - Decent Lloyds - Townie but ok White Heart - friendly landlord, cheap drinks Firkin- Decent pub,everything £1 on tuesdays, not too studenty Flanny O'Brians - old womans pub Tap and Mallet - Don't even go there Greyhound - ditto Barley Mo - not what it use to be Gallery - Weatherspoons wannabe Warehouse - trying to bring chic into lufbra (dream on baby)
• For many years, the Griffin has been the haunt of Grammar School boys and girls from the High School and Convent. The trouble for us poor sad bastards that work in the Griffin is, as we get older, the more difficult it is to decide who and who not to ID. Remember, we will get you in the end. Sadly, you'll probably be 18 by then, and it'll be too late. Dammit.
• Do not go in Busters fun pub, ever. (Assuming it is still there that is)
• The Gallery, run by Tony Hart. (ho ho)
• The new Australian pub/restaurant is absolutely bloody awful, Ailsa, run by flamin' galahs. The only bloody music they play is INXS, AC/DC, Natalie Imbruglia, none of that pommy shit, and the beer is repulsive. Stay away.
• All Shite, every last one of them. Used to have one or two but they fill up with either thick sporty rugger bugger students or fifteen year old drug dealers from local council estates. Great.
• There are only a few decent pubs in Loughborough, - they are the Hobgoblin (formerly Black Lion), the Warehouse, the Orange Tree, the Blacksmiths Arms, and the Griffin.... Here is a brief advert for the latter. - Lots of beer and food, mostly not poisonous. (Did I spell that right?) - Three fruit machines, a quiz machine, a Megatouch machine - this is the place of the discerning addict to electronics, although there are too many fat, greasy, unwashed wankers going around with their pockets bulging with pound coins, so if you fit this category, stay away! Bring on the clean cut gameheads, for God's sake. - Prices are reasonable, you know. People moan all the time, but they aren't as bad as, say, the Warehouse or Busters. - Staff are utterly fantastic....oops. Did I give it away so easily? Anyway drink here, or any of the other places I mentioned. Don't bother anywhere else, as they are entirely shite.
• The Generous Britain and The Griffin Inn are good for students. The old Pack Horse is a quiet pub for locals.
• If you want to pull then go to matts bar. need i say more
• New place opened in Market Street - The Warehouse, nice inside, food reasonable price - supposed to be good, extremely busy Friday and Saturday nights. New in place.
• If your into amateur theatre try the beacon on friday nights
• There's a few good pubs in the town, The Three Nuns at the end of Churchgate used to be an old biker pub, but it's now full of studies, recuperating ravers, pissheads and Jason White (He owns the Left Legged. Get him pissed and enjoy weeks of licensed shoplifting.). The Griffin seems to be the choice of the discerning clubber, as it is quite pricey. The Greyhound.
• The Three Nuns (Six Tits to Students - goth), Loughborough University Campus Bars, Blacksmiths, Griffin, Phantom and Firkin.
• Don't forget the Barley Mow, where Subculture (the Uni's alternative music soc) socialise at weekends. They have a good CD jukebox and it's a cool little place.
• The Blacksmiths Arms is by far the best pub, their Threakstons 'Old Peculiar' is really good.
• Swan Inn, Mountsorrel - a small village 4 miles south of Loughborough. Cracking Theakstons and Guiness, excellent company (Tim from JUST MUSIC drinks in here too. My.) URL = www.jvf.co.uk/swan.

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