The Robin Mickleover Pub in Derby

Lovely place with great bar staff and customers are friendly

Fantastic food and atmosphere. Staff are really friendly

This is my 'local', and I have to say that there is a good selection of beers and lagers on offer. The staff are very friendly and the food is fantastic (the smell from the mixed grill always makes me want to order something!). I've had food several times and have never been disappointed.

Mostly quite thorough most of the day, service is a bit slow regardless of how busy it gets has been my experience

Very nice Indian food, followed by great karaoke with John. Friendly pub, Indian food was on par with any Indian restaurant. Great Naan, good vegetarian choice, nice beers. Friendly enough service. 3 hygiene stars on scores on the door app is a concern. So please get rescored!

Food was very nice and good choice of beers , friendly staff

Best curry ive had in ages. It was delicious.

we are going to try the food next time,it smelled lovely

First time in the robin, but definitely not my last we had a fantastic time, great food and decent prices

Service was awful. Waiter only seemed to be able to use one hand. Complete lottery as to which table in the entire room was going to get the next plate. We received 20% of our food and then the next table started being served. No organisation apparent whatsoever. Waited over 20 minutes between chips and the accompanying main course coming out. Didn't seem to realise you'd like to eat all portions of your own meal together, let alone eat together as a group. Food was Uber salty 😏 Couldn't recommend and wouldn't go back.

As usual the Robin dosen't disappoint! Food always delicious, service is always excellent when we go. A great atmosphere with the Olympics being shown on multiple screens, lovely surroundings.

Can't say I'm a fan of the food, me and my family ate it and didn't feel too good that day/the following day. Decent beer and spirits selection. Three areas to sit in if you include the beer garden. Overall a decent sized pub with what you expect behind the bar and some questionable food.

Fantastic pub with a great atmosphere and owners who care. Got a really cool sports bar with a separate restaurant area on the other side. Food is quality! good place to bring family and children, equally as good going with friends for a beer & a curry.

Great Desi pub; food, service and atmosphere all great!

Great place with a buzzing atmosphere! The large mixed grill was good and went down nicely with a pint of Guinness 👍🏽 Friendly staff and will certainly be visiting again!

Still just a local. Not very good selection of real ale. I've been told the food is very good. Not tried it yet.

We have some friends that live in the mickleover area who had mentioned the curries at the robin to us a couple of times, Well a few of us ( 6 ) decided that we were going to do bit of a daytime pub crawl round the area and decided to finish off with some beers and a curry at the robin. I get teased by my friends as i review all food places so it was bit of a running joke. Tbh, i wasnt expected a great curry with it being a pub meal. How wrong was i!!!! Lets start with the pub as we had a few beers in the nice big lawned garden at the back as it was a hot sunny day ( rare hey!!) Beers were a good price with plenty of options, and baby guiness on offer at 2 for a fiver... so we had a few rounds of them with our beers. We were served by a young lady, with a smile, she told us where our table for food would be and to sit down whenever we were ready to eat. Toilets, were nice and clean, air freshners could be smelt. Sitting down for our food i looked at the menu, plenty of options from a mixed grill to a saag, i went with the robin special, the mrs with a regular butter chicken. We shared a jeera rice ( ive never heard of that before) a chips and a chilli and cheese naan bread, and a normal cheese one. The mrs said butter chicken was nice, and i kept dipping my naan in her sauce as it had a nice flavour, but my special was brilliant, had a nice kick to it, bit not enough of one that you couldnt taste the food ( can have hotter if required). The rice and chips were also good, plenty enough to share. We didnt have to wait to long for our food, and as i put the lady who served us was brilliant ( sun 2nd june ) she was explaining eaxh curry and spices to us, the jeera rice and options of chips. Overall i cant find anything bad to say, which will please my friends who often go here as they can continue to visit haha. Great food, in a friendly pub with a nice area outside that kids can play and run wild. Thank you for great service

For a perfect curry meal this one is really good

Great to have food and drinks, good space and clean

food is absolutely delicious since being taken over! really recommend the robin mixed grill and the garlic cheese naan 🖤 staff are lovely especially the bar girl who was pregnant 🥰 and it’s dog friendly!! woo

Didn’t try the food but menu looked good. Friendly pub, obviously child friendly. Maybe too much so with children still running around at 830 on Friday Karoake night

Great family run pub. Was here with the punjabi Wolves supporters group, and the hospitality shown was brilliant. Will definitely be coming back again.

You don't really expect one of the best curries in Derby to come out of a pub, but the Robin nails it 🔥🔥🔥

Great pub for food and drink great atmosphere worth a visit

Great meal with our work team at the Robin! Fantastic food, with a vast range for different spice levels. Lovely staff members and brilliant prices! Definitely recommend!!

Had a few real ale pints and have to say they were kept well and went down very well

We recently visited the Robin since it had been taken over and renovated. We had a selection of starters and curries which were all very tasty. The staff were great and friendly. It was my first visit and certainly wont be my last.

Our local walking group (typically 45-55 members) chose The Robin as a starting point for a weekly walk. We meet about 10 am; have a 3 to 4 mile walk and return to the starting point around 11:30 for refreshments. Despite our organisers reserving the date in advance when 40-odd people arrived after the walk, the doors were locked and it took 10-15 minutes to gain access. One member of staff then gallantly took nearly 45 minutes to serve everybody, although fair to say a goodly number left and went elsewhere. I wished we’d had a better experience as it’s always great to recommend a local hostelry, but sorry to say that wasn’t possible on this occasion.

Good fun place to visit, especially Monday afternoons

Great place to eat and socialise.

Lovely place now its a curry pub. The curry Desi was excellent

Loved it! Food was really tasty. Lovely friendly atmosphere.

Visited The Robin twice in December, once on the 23rd Dec and the second on the 27th Dec. On my first visit the pub was busy as the boxing was on, however there were no issues getting served drinks and the food was on point. On our second visit, the pub was not as busy, again getting served was easy and the food was good. Overall for food The Robin is definitely in the top 3 for Indian Pubs offering desi sizzlers and we'll definitely visit again.

Since the new owners came in and renovated the bar and Kicthen it’s been the new hot spot for good reason the food is delicious and the staff and owners are very friendly. Provides a good local spot for mickleover.

Fantastic, the food is delicious & the staff are so friendly .

Excellent pub. Under new management and you can tell the owner is putting alot of effort into it. Excellent indian style food and nice selection of beers etc Will definitely be becoming a regular.

Went for a few beers and check out the food since it has been took over. Food was amazing highly recommend. Great beers and friendly atmosphere.

Definitely our new go to dining in/takeaway in Mickleover. Food was amazing. Large group of us ordered a wide selection off the menu. It was all perfect. Even down to warm plates. Staff/management friendly and efficient. £195 spent on food feeding 11 of us with containers supplied to bring ample left overs home. Great to see some life breathed back into the Robin after many years in Doldrums. If you haven't tried this new venture you really should

Lovely local pub Fantastic food Great service and staff So pleased it’s a pleasure to visit again after so many years of it being an unpleasant experience

Just wanted to send a review as the food was amazing OMG the Keema fully loaded on fries wow. Great menu, great choice of food with kids menu aswell and served piping hot. Definitely one to go back to time and time again and the staff so nice and friendly. Mickleover definitely needed this - a great local with a mixed grill.

A great new renovated pub in the Mickleover area with a great atmosphere with good quality food. The mix grill had a good variety of meats and naan were good quality and crispy. The food was not greasy and tasted very good. I tried the lollipop chicken that was good too. Good selection of beers and spirits on offer too.

Just been for the new curry/Indian menu and wasn't quite sure what to expect...but it was blooming brilliant! Right up there to rival some of the other best Indian cuisine in town, especially in a pub setting. The flavours were fresh, original and authentic- beautiful food! We'd love to see some more variety from the ales but that isn't for everyone. We'll be back!

Just been for the new curry/Indian menu and wasn't quite sure what to expect...but it was blooming brilliant! Right up there to rival some of the other best Indian cuisine in town, especially in a pub setting. The flavours were fresh, original and authentic- beautiful food! We'd love to see some more variety from the ales but that isn't for everyone.

After my last review back in June where I criticised the pub for being closed on a hot summer Saturday evening. I thought I’d go back and give it a go now it was up and running (as I didn’t realise it was shut for a refurb) anyway I went with my friend it was a Friday evening. My friend had always wanted to go so I thought I’d show him. As I used to go in for many many years (back in the day) with day. Iv got to say I was very disappointed the bar area was far to bright with the lights. My friend referred to it as an old people’s home day lounge. So we went into the ‘lounge’ room where we were greeted with kareoke. In such a small room made it sound absolutely awful. There were kids running around everywhere and someone who I realised may of been the licensee, was sat with his family (which was great it could well of been his night off) however he kept going round the bar to serve his ‘friends’. He clearly looked drunk as he was serving as he was getting orders wrong, not putting anything through the till. Then started doing shots behind the bar with another girl who I imagine was staff as she was serving in the bar area. We eventually got served after 10 minutes the whole room had literally 20 people in so I think waiting 10 minutes for a drink was very excessive. We drank up after one drink and went on somewhere else. I am very disappointed and hope it improves when they start doing food. I am one for fun however just some professionalism wouldn’t go a miss. #mustdobetter

Amazing atmosphere, friendly staff and a good selection of brews as well as food..Great pub to take family and friends for food and drinks.

A good upgrade from what it used to be like. A good friendly family atmosphere,and reasonably priced at the bar.

Lovely new and decorated. Staff was pleasant and welcoming. Wonderful turnaround!

Really well refurbished and a great mix of people. Quite full on a Friday evening but got a seat and enjoyed a pint with the wife and dog. Only IPA on draught is neck oil, same as every other pub in Mickleover that doesn't do real ale. Would be nice to see a bit of variety on the beer front. Tap room was little noisy as there are no soft surfaces to absorb the noise but not a big issue. Looking forward to seeing what the food offer will be. Well worth a visit.

New owners, friendly atmosphere, nicely decorated, clean, can’t wait for the food to come in to place, mixed grills and the rest from September xx ❤️🥰 out door seating, good luck guys xx

Lovely and lively place , great and friendly staff. Nicely decorated throughout.

Went to the reopening on the 21st July 2023. The atmosphere was fantastic and the staff were very friendly and polite. New decor was amazing. Would definitely go regularly

Been today, amazing staff who were very helpful. Amazing atmosphere and a huge selection of drinks. Very friendly owners and would definetly recommend. Will be our new family local.

At last it's been a long time coming but the Robin has been transformed. Lovely pub lovely people lovely atmosphere we will certainly be back regularly.

I just have to do a top score review to counter Steve's 1 star review from a month ago. I can understand his disappointment if he walked a long way to the Robin, but locals know that it has been closed for complete refurbishment and relaunch with an Indian dimension to the menu. We are impressed by the effort the new owners are putting into it and are waiting excitedly for its reopening.

Very disappointed. I walked to this place on a warm Saturday evening. To find it was shut. It took me and my friend a good 45/60 minutes to get there. The sun was shining we had walked past the great northern, which was packed. Thought I hadn’t been to the robin in a few weeks. My friend has never been and I had told him how nice it was and that it had recently been took over. So we thought we’d have a walk up from mackworth to check it out. We eventually got there and there was no sign of life. Doors shut blinds pulled and this was at 7.30 on a Saturday evening. It was around 21 degrees outside glorious sunshine and absolutely no one around. So we kept on walking into mickleover. Hole in the wall, the nags and the binary all absolutely rammed. Just very disappointing to find a pub not open during a peak summers evening.

I visited The Robin for the first time in many years for the drag show with Miss Carrie Onlove and it was a brilliant night. She is an excellent performer and kept us rapt and entertained all night.

A nice place to enjoy a good pint

Brilliant night went to drag queen show excellent x

Love to see it re-opened after a long break. Hope that she may serve hot meals and snacks in near future. Anyway, She has got some dead hearted fans.

Never been before, I stopped off for a pint before the Football game. Looks like it's well maintained. Pretty quiet while I was there. Staff were polite and friendly. I will definitely go there next time we're playing there. Good prices too.

I'm trying to choose my words carefully. If you really need somewhere to have a drink it will provide that service.

The Robin is reimagined as a modern drink hole. Noone enjoyed it more than our friend Dan. Here's is a picture of him.

Great selection of beers, new owners have refurbed throughout and are very warm and welcoming. Wed quiz had a great atmosphere!

Just got served a writ to get out! For the area it was a mess so not surprised it will likely turn to a spar shop.

This place is closed for now. I miss the karaokes already.

Well what can I say? Lovely staff, great atmosphere, good for a relaxed evening.

Playing fifa in the front lounge smells of chlorine and BO

Lovely customer service. Amazing man how ever the drinks was warm

Very friendly staff and landlord. Excellent value. Nice place.

Great atmosphere for Halloween..no atmosphere..no customers.. landlord looks likes he has been dug up.. personality of a corpse.. more life in a pebble... apart from that lvely pub 👍

Needs a few punters to bring it back to life. The landlord is trying his hardest in very difficult times

Went as is usual for our lunch. Normal cook not in that day so we had meal provided by a temporary cook.Waited slightly longer than usual before meal arrived. Presentation of meal was not as good as normal and although edible it did not give us our normal enjoyment. Hopefully things will be back to normal next time we visit.

I only saw blackbirds, disgraceful. other than that food was marvelous and only one of my sons got salmonella.

I have recently started going back into The Robin after a hostile reception and attitude by the previous Landlord. The Landlord and staff are far more accommodating and make it feel like a homely pub rather than a click for locals. The food is good and homely and served with a smile. I would definitely recommend it for a Sunday lunch (Dinner)

Four of us had a meal , the staff were friendly good choice of drinks . The food was fresh the young lady who served us With the food was very cheerful would return , it had a nice feel about it .

Went yesterday for our usual shared starter and were very disappointed, this was an item recently taken off the menu, but now it was back. The onion rings were almost onion-less, the chicken wings were very small and cremated not cooked, dips were very difficult to put a name to but acceptable. Not so long ago we had nachos and dip and salsa as part of this starter, not any more. What is happening to our local that had only 4 customers for lunchtime, the staff are the same but the management keeps changing, unfortunately new managers seem to have their hands tied by "The Pub People" and seemingly can do nothing to get more customers in, to make things worse most of the popular beers have been changed (Golden Harvest was my favourite). The general decor in the pub is depressing and has been for some time, can't managers do a bit of painting etc and have a matched set of light bulbs in the outdated ceiling lights. Toilets are awful and tables need replacing as they are constantly sticky because surface preparation is unsuitable. Come on Pub People get your finger out and make our local somewhere to be proud of and not somewhere to avoid if wanting to entertain our friends, family etc. Future visits may be not be on unless things improve.

Visited as a family group of 7, all meals were delicious and hot on arrival, service very pleasant and helpful, lady behind the bar and the cook couldn’t do enough for us. Yes the pub is very dated and could do with an update but this didn’t affect our meal or the atmosphere.

Great local pub, great staff and draught beers and lagers, gins and bottled drinks, great place for families, with excellent food, only let down by the appearance, needs a damm good refurb, which in my opinion will complete the experience, and make it into a excellent local pub.

These place I like friendly people relaxing and great staff.

Food still good now problems in kitchen sorted but pub STILL desperately wants refurbishment!!

Always a lovely place for a drink and play in the beer garden. Kids love the climbing frame and slide. Lovely meals too and staff always friendly

OK as a local pub, seems popular. Basic 1960/70's building and has a limited selection of real ales.

Needs a refurb and some food is awful

This is our local pub, currently between management, serves a good range of beer for a small pub, the cask is of good quality, and the food is very good, Dawn does a great job, and does some superb homemade specials, especially the puddings, in my opinion the panna cotta is superb, the staff are warm and welcoming and helpful Johhny, Claudia and Helen are usually serving, the only problem with this pub is, it needs a damn good refurb, hasn't changed in years, potential gold mine, just needs work aesthetically. So all in all good pub, great food at a good price, great staff and welcoming family venue, just needs refurbishment. And poss a selection of gins as these are so hot at the moment and feel they are missing out.

Needs work to improve experience been like this for ages repaint new seats new landlord toilets are well it’s probably safer to pee outside that’s both toilets and that is fair comment

Local pub in centre of mickleover Australian estate. Nice people there but place could do with facelift.

I like the food that they do as it's always fresh and served quickly, this means that you can go there for a quick meal, if you so desire. Also they have activities such as pool and darts, meaning that if you want to entertain yourself whilst having a drink, you can.

Lovely family run pub, and the food is always delicious

Food lovely and very good price!! Staff very friendly.

We have commented on The Robin before and unfortunately it never seems to improve, that is, the Lounge Bar not the food which is always very good. The bar is depressing because it never seems to have been decorated, the lighting has mis- matched bulbs and usually has some bulbs missing making it little dark in places. This time we visited 2 weeks before Christmas and decorations were poor in fact almost non-existent Bar staff very pleasant and menu good for a local pub. Why don't the tenants/brewery do more to make the place popular, it has great potential being situated in a prime position in the village. We, our friends and others would visit more often if it was more welcoming.

Not a very nice place beer is quite dear and the decor of the place is very poor.

Very good quality meals and excellent service.

took mother-in -law here for lunch.my wife and her mother had 2 meals on the special offer and I had an all day breakfast.the meals were excellent for the price we paid.the pub itself is in need of refurbishment,new tables,seating etc but it is clean and tidy.

Great music on the night we visited, Rock Buffet were playing.

Lovely local pub! Food is delicious, atmosphere is lovely in the main bar, but we sat in the quieter bar as we had a large group of us. Definitely recommend the steak in peppercorn sauce!

Great people great beer. Porno said ring him

Good food but pub desperately needs refurbishment on all areas

A small bar and place to eat. Good for families and pets as nice outdoor space. Food is a reasonable price and well made not had a bad meal am.pleased to say. A quiet place with parking.

I live locally and myself and family popped down for a drink in the pub garden recently - hardly any beers available for the men and no ice at all for the women's wine! the toilets are an absolute disgrace with not one toilet seat that actually fitted onto the toilet! This place is handy for us but it's getting harder to pop in with it looking really shabby now - such a shame, it could be such a nice pub with some TLC

Friendly staff. Foods ok. Steak is lovely. Sunday dinners need improvements