Lime Kilns in Hinckley and Bosworth - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Quaint little pub, full of charm, in an easily accessible location

Brilliant cosy pub with a brilliant beer garden along the canal

Did not eat here but saw they have a varied menu with vegan options. Lots of w/e events and live music.

It's just a great little pub on the canal . The boaters all wave to you as they go past . You can sit in the beer garden and eat and drink watching the swans and ducks on the canal they even have entertainment playing live to you outside some times. The staff are fantastic and friendly even tell you what is going on in the area. The two different menus one for down stairs like basket food and up stairs they do roast dinners. They run a small bar down stairs that does different drinks to upstairs great choices. P.S make a donation and they give you a bag of food so you can feed the birds.

Excellent, delicious food. All the staff were efficient, friendly and so helpful. We enjoyed live music and will return often.

Went for food and too listen to the live entertainment. Not been since the change of management. High quality food, service and a great atmosphere. Highly recommend. Staff were awesome too.

Disappointing, firstly, the pies were both not cooked. They were pale white, we asked to get them cooked, and then came back 2 minutes later piping hot, which obviously had been microwaved the outside was hard. The mash was almost definitely from a packet mixture. However, the lasagna was ok. What did annoy me is a review reply from 3 months ago states that the chips aren't oven baked and the pie is home made and not mass produced which is clearly wrong, the standards have greatly reduced over the years. The ketchup was extremely sour. For the price, it was a rip off, at least we got a refund for the pies. But nothing is as advertised. Do not buy food here. Also, adding to this, the owner is extremely rude, as you can see in the reply. He or she knows we are on a canal boat, so we can't go back and watch, and if we did, you would kick us out. Oh, and that trainee wouldn't be devastated if you would've inspected the pies and said that it is well undercooked or not even cooked, so if he is devastated, it's both of your faults. Here’s an update this pub is still absolutely terrible, never order food here the owners attitude is absolutely shocking, I and my family will never eat or drink here again.

Super Sunday roast with the family at very reasonable prices. The vegetables were very good and really generous proportions.

We popped in on a Saturday afternoon and decided to stay for food! So glad we made the decision as the food was amazing! Very welcoming and friendly atmosphere! Would highly recommend!

Visited 6th April 2024. Popped in for evening meal from narrow boat with dog in tow. Very welcoming and accommodating. Short supply on steaks that day due to unexpected demand earlier in day but plenty of other choice. Live music good and disappointed we couldn’t stay to listen longer.

Lovely Sunday roast, friendly staff. Had a great afternoon with family 😊

New owners took over 5 weeks ago. Putting lots of effort in to get the place right.

Great canal-side location- positives end there. Very dated, in need of serious investment. No dogs allowed which is a little backwards these days and misses huge opportunity based on tow paths and various walking routes that lead to the pub. Could be a very decent place with a bit of modernisation in both decor and business acumen.

Brilliant pub, lovely staff, and an exceptional range of ciders. Highly recommended.

We had lovely cooked food, the rump steak was to die for.

Great beer, had a great meal, great staff and wonderful music. Always have a great time when we visit. Thank you all again.

A bit tired . But we had good pub food. Cooked very well. A lovely lady on the bar and waitressing . Great value . Great beer. We wouldn't hesitate to call here again.

A lovely canalside location with a nice beer garden. When I called in the pub offered a couple of lagers, four ales, and many different ciders. It’s what you might call a ‘proper pub’.

Very nice pub with friendly staff and good selection of four hand pump real ales and two lagers. Located beside the Ashby Canal and also the A5, so good transport links too, be you a walker or cyclist like me, or by road. Included in the latest CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide, so if you’re an ale enthusiast you know it’s legit.

Lovely food and great service. A very pleasant afternoon sitting by the canal

The plus points is that the beer is very good. Superb pint of Timothy Taylor. Butty bsxh and Sharps also offered Menu seems comprehensive and had veggie and vegan options, it's a little basic but edible and cheap. Whole place could do with redecorating and beer garden needs a lot of tlc.

Friendly staff and really good honest pub grub! Would definitely recommend, especially the pies

Nice and relaxing pud not a chain food is good with a good choice of beers and cider

This pub has a deeply relaxed landlord/bartender. Decent, home-style food is served. The drink selection is ok. Unfortunately there is no stout.

Bit basic and tired but great beer choice, very well kept.

Very disappointing. Ordered the steak and kidney pie. Pastry was almost white, nothing like the picture in a prior review. I would guess oven chips. Shame, the Harvester we visited the day before and the day after was far superior.

Friendly and polite staff. Excellent choice of ales and still ciders.

Fabulous range of ciders, good food and friendly staff. Great position on the canal. What more could you want. Function room available to hire too.

Nice pub situated on busy A5 but with canal side views. Good range of draught beers, plus keg and cider. Beers a little more expensive than average at over £4 a pint. Food also served but not by us on this visit. Main disadvantage is that it isn't wheelchair friendly.

Travelled from Derby to sample the Buswell beers but none were available, which was disappointing. Nice pub, though and good quality ales

Nice guy on the bar - good cider selection and food was great for the price

Very friendly, nice and cosy, right next to the canal

Kitchen closed at 3pm on a Sunday bank holiday weekend. Offered cold pies. Rude staff. Scruffy outside seating area. Suggest sail on by to Trinity stop

Small pub next to the asby canal just off the a5 lovely staff and decent beer kept well. Very welcoming and if the weather is good you can sit and while away a few hours watching the boats go by. Recommended

Great pub for a real ale pint while sailing on the Ashby canal. However overall we were disappointed. We had hoped to eat here but contrary to reviews we had read - and contrary to the sign on the pub door - the pub is not fully dog friendly. Dogs are only welcome in the garden which is a shame for a canal-side pub. We found the garden to be a bit scruffy (not beautiful as suggested in some reviews) and it was noisy from the main road adjacent to it. So sadly we did not - could not - eat here on a chilly evening with our well behaved dog. Shame as we do like to support family run pubs.

Charming pub situated by the side of a canal. Well kept beers and excellent food. Speciality is their wide range of pies which are packed with delicious fillings. Well worth a visit if you are in the area.

Great food , great real ale. Totally recommend the beef,stout,Stilton and mushroom pie with a pint of piston broke.

Beautiful little spot to stop for a quick cold drink. Over 2 floors, bar on top floor but accessible from road, then toilets downstairs and lovely little garden outsides right on the canal edge. Staff were very friendly too.

Lovely pub overlooking the canal. Great beer recommend Land-rover if you like a pint with a bit of an alcoholic kick. Good food too and an excellent range of cooked pies. Sadly food not availabke Sunday evening but any other time

Always a good beer at this pub. The pies are delicious. The range of ciders is so good. Definitely recommend a visit

Lovely canal side pub serving excellent beers and great value food

Unfriendly and not very welcoming, food looked like it came from Iceland wouldn't recommend

Very frosty welcome ... really didn't make you welcome .Also charged us twice for the meal..

Nice pub, good beer. You can sit outside by the canal, although the A5 is a bit noisy. The food board looked interesting but we had already eaten so can't comment about the food, maybe another time...

Lovely place to get food and drink when out for a walk. Looking forward to visiting again.

Lovely cosy family run pub.Always feel welcome.Excellent food. Beer is homebrewed and very nice 👍

Great canalside pub, food, ale and cider.

Another great pub. A warm welcome and good food and beer. And on Tuesday evenings a really good acoustic session.

Great pub on the canal, good selection of real ales on tap and great food at reasonable prices. Staff are very friendly. This pub is well worth a visit!

Potential for a good pub, dogs are welcome but banished to the downstairs room which was cold and full rubbish...although sofa's were comfortable. Tuesday night sing along advertised we attended with friends but we're not made welcome infact told that after eating our meal we might have to move as the musicians will want to spread out, we squeezed up and were able to stay close by.

The place is as safe as can be. Food is brilliant. Their pie's very nice and worth the money. No photos as i was hungry.

Great selection of food and superb ales including their own beers.

Great food, great beers. Home made pies are a must 👍🏼

We absolutely love our meal at the Lime kilns great hosts food is lovely even though there are 6 of us food is always bought out at the same time great service all round

Friendly staff. Fast efficient service. Delicious food. Definitely a gem to be recommended.

Very nice pies and friendly staff

Fairly quiet tonight. Good food. Nice drinks. Very friendly, welcoming staff.

One of the best pies I’ve had I a very long time. Lamb, red wine and mint. Thank you and I will come again

Good quality home cooked food at a very reasonable price

Very grumpy man and he’s the owner not friendly at all Best thing about the place is canal side

Variety of pies and general menu, but not a lot of healthy veg. Good size portions. Good service and served hot. Nice seating by waterside

The rudest landlord I have ever encountered

Nice pub located at the crossing of the A5 and the Ashby Canal. Good variety of pub food with generous helpings.

Came with a friend on a Sunday afternoon, neither had been here before but it's a cosy traditional-style pub, there was a range of drinks available (but sadly we had both driven so had to stick with cokes). The food was really generous (pictured) and tasty! The pie was stuffed with filling and not half air as you sometimes get in some places. They still have some safety measures in place such as masks when moving around indoors, track and trace and hand sanitiser.

Fantastic pies, great location for boaters with private mooring by the pub garden.

Ate here last week! Dreadful from start to finish!!!!! This is without doubt one of the worst pubs I've been too. Dirty glass with lipstick on it, bad enough at the best of times, but during a pandemic?????? Food was given to another table, when the landlord realised their mistake it was scooped up (after another family had chatted over our food) and served to us. The quality of the food was just awful, dried up pie, shrivelled mushrooms, steaks that were like an old boot, gravy and 'peppered sauce' disgusting. Wide berth needs to be given.

Long time since been here.Meal was good and price was fair.

Food is always lovely. Great location and staff.

Excellent. Stopped off for beer and sandwiches whilst on a 9 mile walk. Covid19 safe and food was lovely

Great pub, great food and drinks, lovely canalside beer garden and also lovely people that run it. I'd highly recommend The Lime Kilns. We've been many times and we've also had my Dad's Wake in their beer garden amongst Covid restrictions which was managed brilliantly. They were so accomodating, really helpful. I can't praise them enough.

Lovely and friendly. Nice and chilled atmosphere, lovely beer garden, can sit by the canal and watch the barges go by. Also do food. Thumbs up for me.

Not the friendliest of place. Found the staff quite short and unwelcoming. We walked away. Found a different pub, which was how I expected this visit to be. Welcoming and friendly.

Food stopped serving at 830pm . Looked nice, smelt good , but I appear to of been forced to be on a curfew . Beers good. Food looks nice.

Excellent beer and good food cooked outside in their lovely canalside garden up

I completely understand the pandemic and the hit the trade has had. Our first time here and it was running a limited menu. Absolutely no issues with the offerings. 4 of us with 1 drink and a light lunch, consisting of frozen/supermarket produce that had been deep fried and very, very little of it! All of this came to £35, mightily disappointed with this as the KFC down the road has far better quality. If charging these prices, at least make sure the quality stacks up. As I say, I completely understand the industry has been hit hard but there really isn't any excuse for this. Will definitely not be returning. EDIT: Due to response from owner, demoting to 1 star as they clearly don't take well to criticism or feedback, I feel this feedback has not been taken on board. Feedback is valuable, whether bad or good, it's how you use it as a business to get better at what you do.

Was a very nice Sunday meal sitting by the canal

Yes lime kilns great pub and a nice pint loverly view of the canal staff very helpful and covid friendly 👍🏼👍🏼

Great breakfast, lovely canal side location and catered beautifully for vegetarians! Lovely owners. Highly recommend.

Not much selection of beer due to all other local pubs being shut, nice place otherwise

Great food, a nice welcome, nothing too much trouble, hubby loved his pint! Well done to the team for making us feel safe!

A cosy, friendly pub on canal. Excellent Covid secure measures in place. Normally some nice real ales available.

Great hospitality, friendly welcoming staff. The food was reasonably priced and very good value for money. Highly recommend the pies, great pastry but more importantly full of filling. Will definitely be back here next time holidaying on the canal.

Great place really good SD and plenty of anti back stations x Always a great pub by the canal

Doing so well to help people have a wonderful time due to covid 19 keep up the good work

Nice little pub next to the canal. Nice couple who run it and good food well worth a visit

Stopped off on boat trip at lunchtime and just made it in time for food. Good service, food was great. Would have been 5 stars if the garden seating had been a bit more comfortable ! But overall very good.

Lovely food, friendly atmosphere

Lovely setting right next to the canal. Friendly staff and the food is proper pub grub but nothing special.

Good choice on the menu, friendly welcome and social distance measures in place 👍

Great traditional pub, great food - a real treat for me as brilliant for Gluten Free 👍

Good beer, well cared for and a good quiz night. PS the food was really good.

Great staff, food, real ales and ciders, what more could you want?

Lovely canal side pub with great food at reasonable prices, staff were excellent and looked after us really well. Would highly recommend!

When they say they stop taking food orders at 8.30 they mean 8.30. We wanted to place food order at 8.30 and were refused. And just for clarification I was told it's 8.29 actually. Idiots.

Food ok.Beer fine .Cant go wrong here.Will come back with wifey for a meal soon.

Home made curry on a Monday for £3 and it tastes brilliant!

Very nice traditional pub. Lovely staff, massive selection of drinks including beer, ale, cider and gin. Having the food here is a must, whatever you choose from one of the many pub classics, no corners cut here. Quick and friendly service.

Lovely place. Friendly staff and very supportive of local musicians.

Decent Sunday lunch in canalside pub. Home cooked. Very busy.

Nice beer, good service, a good experience.