March Moss / 27 June 2025 / Categories: City, What to see, What to do, Food & Drink, Restaurants

Everards Beer Hall is the hashtag at Everards Leicestershire

Maybe more a destination for tourists

I’d heard a few good things about Everards Beer Hall in Leicestershire so we decided to try it. I am not a beer drinker myself but seeing the workings of the distillery was an interesting concept for a restaurant and I’d heard on the grapevine they did have some big salad options on the menu, something tricky to find in and around Leicester where the food choices unless you like curry can be parochial to say the least.

I don’t get to eat lunch out during the week, I am usually eating something on the go, not so healthy, usually in a hurry so trying somewhere new at the weekend was exciting.

The building from the outside is like a big aviation hanger, a corrugated metal huge warehouse, it is a distillery and no problems parking. There is a large free car park in front which services the brewery and the other businesses on the development, a specialist cycling shop and a coffee shop. The only thing missing was the coaches dropping off and picking up bus loads of visitors. It gives off those kind of theme park vibes, where you’d expect to see queues of people ready to take the tour. The except when we arrived it was pretty much empty.

The restaurant is a very large dining hall, clearly designed for a lot of people with an interesting layout, large sharing tables for big groups and interesting social media ready booths with image sharing signage and their own hashtag #everardsbeerhall

The experience was snoopable but not for the reasons we’d hoped.

Even though we were one of a handful of tables we had to wait at an empty reception for a few minutes before anyone can to seat us. It was frustrating as there were quite a few members of staff all busy doing other things.

The exciting big salads we were hoping for didn’t materialise. It’s more a burger and chips, chicken tenders type of place. It’s the sort of menu that’s not memorable or exciting. I think they are marketing the beer and the brewery tours to one off visitors than focusing on a food offering that will keep customers returning for their favourites on the menu you won’t find anywhere else.

It felt a bit like if you are not here for the beer then what are you doing here? No one actually said that but there was a definite get them in and get them out feeling about the service, even though it was relatively dead when we went.

Would we return. Probably not to be honest.

Like I said I am not a beer drinker. I asked for a zero alcohol beer and I have to say this was the best thing they served us. The Everards zero alcohol beer is called BERO Edge Hill Hazy IPA. I was driving and this premium non-alcoholic beer was pretty tasty. Here they have focused on flavor and quality. It’s hoppy and lemony citrus and a great alternative if you don’t want the booze but like a refreshing light beer on a hot day.

The experience overall could have been better if the menu was a bit more adventurous for me and there had been a few more people.

We didn’t take a tour which lasts 90 minutes and costs £20 and includes 3 x 1/3 pints of beer selected by the tour guide. Your guide customers also get a 15% discount on all the beer they buy to take home.

For the beer tasters and beer buyers this would be great.