The Blue Bell — Restaurant in Erewash

Not a good place I'm afraid. Seemed nice and cheerful, good crowd, decent band, but that's where it stops. Sticky floor... OK, it was a Saturday night the could have had messy customers in. Sticky bar counter, sorry no excuses for that, it takes seconds to clean the bar. The crunch came when it took five attempts to pour a particular double whisky. First it was the wrong drink, next the glass was filthy, the another dirty glass that smelled of something other than whisky, so much so the bar tender and the manager asked US what it was. Then a double drowned in soda/lemonade that was not asked for. Finally, a double that was almost thrown at us by a somewhat aggrieved bar staffer. She was upset, what about your customers who had done nothing more than ask for a drink. We...

I've been going here on and off for about 15 years. These days it's unfortunately a little 'rough' -- some evenings one can survey the scene from a corner table and see visions of what the post-apocalyptic pub-scape might look like. Lots of tracksuit bottoms, awkward encounters with meat heads, casual swearing and semi-violent tension in there but this is of no reflection of the staff. The drinks prices are reasonable if you want lager or spirits; sadly no ale on offer. Long Eaton's pub scene has improved with the opening of places like Rowells, the Mill and Brook, Copper Cogs and York Chambers, all offering decent beers and a social environment. Sadly the Blue Bell (or Bass House as we know it) still exists as a shadow of a...

The woman who owns this place is the rudest landlady I've ever met. Shouting from her balcony spreading germs from projecting her voice down to the beer garden. Bit of a hypocrite. I know covid measures are in place but at the end of the day she was breaking more of the measures than what the people in the beer garden was. It's a shame as the place has been done up and it's lovely inside. But I'd rather drink toilet water than go there and give her any money...