The Real Ale Classroom — Restaurant in Great Britain

The owner is strangely rude and lies about what services they provide. We organised to have a small wedding here, agreeing to have the venue free of charge from 7-11pm. We offered to pay a hiring fee but Steve refused and offered the venue for free. We put £700 behind the bar and people bought many more drinks after this was done - the pub made a lot of money in 4 hours. Hiring a bar free of charge on the condition money is made behind the bar is very common. But Steve took every opportinity to make us feel awkward and like he was doing us a massive favour by constantly reminding us that we were getting the venue for free... again he made over a grand off us and our guests in this 4 hours. His weird and rude behaviour soured the evening. Steve was playing poker with his friends at the front when the wedding started, and when asked what time this would finish he said 'I'm not telling them to leave, it will finish when it finishes' - this is not what we agreed and we would have chosen elsewhere if we knew that Steve was lying when he said we would have the venue to ourselves during the agreed upon time. He also came down during the wedding party and said the volume was too loud, we turned it down and apologised even asking if the adjusted volume was suitable, to which he again reminded us infront of all our guests that we got the venue for free and that if we didn't like it we could leave - he said this to the bride and groom in front of the entire party despite us being compliant. We tried our best to be as polite and friendly as possible and spent a lot of money at the bar, but this was met with Steve's relentless need to make us feel that using this venue was a favour and his consistently hostile behaviour throughout was insulting, rude and incredibly disrespectful. We simply would not have chosen this venue if we knew Steve would contradict our agreement and be so...

Do NOT hire this place out. We offered the owner a fee to hire the venue out for a wedding but he declined, saying that as long as enough money was made behind the bar. We put close to a grand behind the bar and much more was spent on top. He agreed that we would have the venue from 7pm to 11pm but on the day him and his friends were playing a poker game at the front and didn't leave for hours (there was a foul smell emanating around the poker game, to make matters worse). Throughout the evening the owner kept rubbing the fact that the venue was hired out 'for free' (it wasn't) and was consistently rude and hostile. Later he brought this up again in front of our guests and had a go at us for playing music too loud despite the fact we immediately turned it down. If we knew he was going to be this disgusting and hostile, we would have gone elsewhere. Owners should not let their mood/personal problems affect...

Called a micro pub, yes small, two rooms. The tables were old school desks, hence the name 'Classroom'. It is a real ale dream pub, beer straight from the cask. Busy so the beer is not getting old. Many beers on tap, plenty of choice from session beers to strong ales. Dark ales, amber ales. All ales well described on the blackboard of course.

Staff friendly and efficient. Will allow you to sample a beer before you buy a pint.

For your non real ale friends, they do have wine and lagers.

Wish I lived near Leicester, I would be there every day. I believe the do sell pies for those who need some solids with...