Dover Castle — Restaurant in Great Britain

Fantastic gay bar/pub! The kind you don't see many of these days as many are closing down. Unashamedly shows off the pride flag inside and outside and has free gay community magazines to read inside as well. Relatively inexpensive alcoholic drinks available as well as food (but we didn't have time to eat here when we visited Leicester so couldn't comment either positively or negatively on what the food is like unfortunately). There's also entertainment in the form of a pool table, televisions and staged performances. When we went there, there was a session of drag queen bingo in full swing with a hilariously filthy-mouthed drag queen bingo caller. I wish I could remember her name she was brilliant. Seemed very popular with locals and had a very relaxing atmosphere. Wish I had a gay bar/pub like the Dover Castle local to where I live so if you are local to Leicester give it all the support you can and it deserves. Not sure what the night life is like here as we visited during the day but imagine it's just as good...

Gosh - The pub is still alive, I came out gay in 1988 in the Dover, (I'm now a transgender woman) I was known as Miss Cherry Brandy due to me drinking cherry brandy, I'm so glad the fire place is still there and the bench seats - shame the wooden bar has gone, I remember the window where the sofas are now, Straights threw a brick and stink bombs thru it. The pub has been extended. I wonder what happened to the bar staff and the customers from the 80's. We would go here then to Street Life club near Lee...

This was the second stop on our night out after a visit to Rainbow & Dove (owned by the same people) and I wasn't disappointed - we walked from one cabaret night into the second, this one with Manchester drag queen Aunty Ginger. Perfectly naughty (filthy at times - loved it!) and very entertaining. Venue was good, too. Generally felt like a younger crowd than Rainbow & Dove, but saw lots of the same people in both venues (and in Helsinki club...