Pub Guides

Leicester and Leicestershire has an excellent choice of pubs serving a good choice of local beers and national brands

Map of Leicester City centre showing pubs selling Real Ale

Pubs in and around Leicester City Centre

The handiest way to find real ale houses in the city centre is by following our pocket map.

This leaflet, re-published in 2025, contains details of 18 pubs where real ale is available in the city centre.

Our pocket map is available for download here.

Pubs around Clarendon Park and Stoneygate

Pubs around Aylestone

Our pocket map is available for download here.

Small maps of Clarendon Park and Stoneygate and of Aylestone showing pubs

…and further afield


CAMRA’s exhaustive directory of virtually all pubs serving ale, cider, perry and beyond in the city, county and across the country. It’s free to access, and if you are a CAMRA member you can use it – in fact, we actively encourage you! – to provide beer quality scores that form the basis for the Campaign’s flagship Good Beer Guide, published annually. So why not hop over to the CAMRA website and give it a try today?
The current edition of CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide provides details of more than 4,500 pubs, 1,900 breweries and 7,500 beers across the country. It is completely independent, reviewed annually by local CAMRA volunteers and one of the definitive publications when it comes to beer. The GBG, currently weighing in at 2lbs/920gms, is available for purchase from the CAMRA website . If you don’t fancy carrying that sort of weight around town, best to check out the web app version!