One of the best pubs in Leicester, variety of customers from students and match days fans. Cook hot food, fast service and lovely beer garden. One 💯 return

Best pub I've been in, great food, great service and great servers. Amazing price and amazing food. Will always be my favourite pub. Good array of beer and the best deals. 10/10 would recommend. Edit: Just wanted to continue on with what I was saying, further along the line. Still a fantastic pub and my first choice whenever I go out for food, or drink. 2 for 1 cocktails are always a killer, ranging from £5.49. Food is amazing for the price and staff are always welcoming. Recommended to anyone looking for a nice quiet pub in Leicester.

Great place for catching up with friends, easygoing atmosphere and yummy food! Really close to DMU too - perfect place to go for a post-lecture drink!

The pub was empty when I visit, even it is next to university, there was no students and people The good thing is they have Brixton drinks Price are £6, which is bit too pricey. I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ I don’t feel going there again. There a student next to this pub. Not very much recommended 🙏

Heard a lot about the history of this pub (recent history like the polar bear) and its... Ok serves a couple of ales of decent quality and decent food, very much a wetherspoon model adopted by local pub vibe.

I have just returned to the office at the DMU, after having lunch at the pub. I will certainly not return to this place again due to the poor service and low quality food I was served. To begin, I ordered a full day English breakfast. The waitress said that there were no hash browns and that she would have replaced them with fries. I said yes and, after waiting for a while, I got served a breakfast with neither fries nor hash browns. The bread (a slice of toast sliced in two parts) was overcooked and so were the sausages (dry and tasteless). The mushrooms were not fresh and the fried eggs were not cooked properly. The beacon was overcooked too. Food was blatantly cooked in a rush, and served with no attention to detail whatsoever. Lastly, the waitress did not even stop me for a second to check if I was happy with the food or if I needed anything. Overall, in hindsight, I would have avoided stopping here to have lunch and bought a sandwich to the nearby Tesco or student union. I strongly recommend avoiding this place.

Popped in after the rugby. Good atmosphere, very friendly staff. Ideal for match days. Nice pint.

This was a good place to visit with friends and their dog who I had missed seeing for such along time, so it was lovely catching up and ordering my food while waiting for other friends to arrive and meet up with us. The food I ordered was delicious along with my drink and good value for money too, the service was also very good and the atmosphere was great too.

Went for some drinks here after the football; very friendly and helpful service by Rebecca. Didn't have food but the cocktails were really tasty. Would recommend!

The old owners were class and provided a great atmosphere. However, now it’s being run differently and they don’t play music in the pub which dims the atmosphere. Was a great pub though 👍🏻

Absolutely disgusting Sunday dinner all frozen and tinned veg gravy like rain water beef dryer than a nuns chuff don't waste your time and money. Plus no soap in the toilets

I didn’t want to expose The Bowling Green, Leicester for what it was but after months of a band not being paid for their work I’ve been left with no other choice. This is by far the WORST experience I’ve had with any venue in all of my career. The first gig was me & Benn. They didn’t have enough cash to pay us at the end of the night so we just squared it off and allowed them to pay us what they could out of goodwill. There had only been about 3 people in the pub after all. This should have been a massive RED FLAG but I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. Fast forward to the second band that played for them through Gig Base. As expected, the band arrived and carried out a professional gig. I have been through HELL with this venue trying to collect the bands payment. The communication has been next to none. The area manager has conveniently ‘broken their phone’ and nobody is contactable. On the occasions I have had contact I’ve been given countless empty promises of payment being made but still to no avail. I have visited the pub and tried to speak to staff regarding this, trying to find answers. Only for them to express their shared frustration as they are currently WORKING FOR FREE and chasing their wages also. Disgusting. It has now been nearly 2 months of no payment. The pub is a Stonegate Pub Partners leased pub (nothing Stonegate can do because its leased, although I’m sure they’d be interested to know that the only way they can afford the rent is by stealing the staffs/bands wages). The affiliated company who is running it is called C&A BARS LTD and the operation manager/director is a MR CHRISTOPHER LYONS. The area manager I have been trying to correspond with is called FRASER. It has also come to my attention that they are ILLEGALLY playing music in the bar, having live music, karaoke etc without a valid PRS for Music licence. For those that don’t know, any establishment open to the public who plays music must legally hold one of these. It’s no surprise that The Bowling Green doesn’t as they are clearly above the law and don’t have to pay any dues! Most of the musicians I work with gig for a living. This is how we pay our bills and get by. Times are tough as it is, and then you get venues like THE BOWLING GREEN who think it’s ok to not pay their musicians or their bar staff. It’s not acceptable. I guess the point of this post is to AVOID THIS VENUE. If you are a musician, pub goer, lover of live music then avoid this venue like the plague. Students of University of Leicester and people of Leicester, don’t spend your money here, it’s going into the pockets of thieves who don’t care about their customers or staff. Here’s hoping the band who did an amazing professional job will eventually get paid what they are owed. C&A PUBS SHOULD BE ASHAMED!

This pub has a nice friendly feel to it very quite when we went in for a couple a few days ago but the bar lady said that it get busy at times there was a Good selection on tap also definitely visit again

Edge of town boozer, multiple screens for sports fans, 3 ales available, a rather tired interior, needs a bit of TLC.

Went on Friday lunch. The staff must have been stocking up for the weekend as they kept disappearing for ages. It was hard to get served. The food menu was quite limited but it was nice enough.

Great pub, mixed customers from locals, students and sports fans. Proper old pub with modern outside seating areas with screens for sport.

Burger and drink Tuesday, what a burger it was! Absolutely epic. I used to go regularly when I was working at one of the student accomodations near by so it was good to see the manager still there. Back to the food, I ordered cheeseburger with double patty's, (you can have up to 4!!) Added bacon. Having been unimpressed with burgers - I had not eaten a pub burger in about a year, this was one of the best burgers I've eaten in a long long long time. The wings unfortunately were either overcooked or reheated, we ordered two different ones but both had the same overcooked / reheated taste. Won't be ordering them again any time soon. Atmosphere is always fantastic in this place, they have a pool table too! Looking forward to trying new dishes, see you again soon Bowling Green. (Watch this space, for more pics)

My god what a pub. This place is the sort of pub you’d be proud to own. Never change. Bill, Maxine and Beth are the life and soul of this boozer. You’ll never feel more welcome and appreciated as much as this place.

5/5!!! Billie was the most helpful bartender ever imaginable! She helped us so much find our table and get us drinks and food. Top quality bar tender, please promote her!!! Would recommend

We always enjoy a visit here, great beers, and friendly staff. Quite a small pub, with an outside seating area. Played quite a few games of Pool here in the past.

Terrific pub, doesn't look much from the outside but a favourite haunt of my son's whilst at DMU and we had a drink with him there on his graduation day, great service and very reasonable prices plus footy on all the TVs, super

Nailed it. Cheap breakfast before noon everyday and the 1.99 coffee and bacon&egg bap is great value for money. Definitely will be returning. The staff there are also very helpful

Very friendly staff, helpful and also dog friendly. Food was good and prices are quite reasonable.

Maxine smashed it today. Super friendly lady nothing was a problem. Food was great value for money, nice clean pub. Heard all about this place when was daughter was a student here. Thanks folks

Great pub and a real tardis once inside but still with a cosy and welcoming feel. Amazing selection of drinks offers and good food. Lots of TVs to show multiple sports and a lovely outside courtyard, a rarity in a city centre. A really good atmosphere and the staff are all friendly and chatty.

A really pleasant visit. I was served by the super friendly and helpful Maxine, who laughed and joked with me and made conversation which was nice since I was sitting solo. The food was hot, served quickly and as I’d expect for local pub grub and not overpriced. The pub atmosphere is cosy & rustic, with low beamed ceilings, tastefully painted walls and lots of books and crannies for seating. I would definitely return during a lunch hour.