Willow in Leicester - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Had Sunday lunch for five people today , 11/8, was not packed but few having lunch. Table in corner great and easy access. Mum has limited mobility. Had music playing all through which made conversation difficult for people with hearing aids. Queued for food, beautiful piece of fresh beef came out. It was cut into half. Then quarter and string removed. What was left to carve was chewy and tepid. Veg cold. New potatoes so hard couldn’t get fork in. Cauliflower cheese hard and cold. Gravy was hot. Plenty of condiments. Veg was coming to end so needed refilling. Put out new but do not tip out old onto it so quickly cold.

First and last time, I've been and would go. Food is ok, nothing to yell out about, staff were friendly-ish.

As always the atmosphere and staff are second to none. Food is good value for money and always cookedto perfection. Drinks are also reasonably priced. Good for a quick bite to eat too.

Nicely refurbished pub with pleasant patio and a good children's play area. Good beer and good food.

Just visited The Willow for a nice Sunday roast. Fresh selection of meats, choices of Gammon, Turkey and Beef. Well staffed with everyone being very attentive. We booked for 3 and our table was reserved and kept ready. Clean venue with good local community feel.

The food was amazing, cooked perfectly, (I had the 10oz rump steak, cooked blue,) hats off to the new chef!

We went for Sunday lunch today and we couldn't fault it! Everything was fresh and hadn't dried out under the heat lamps Large selection of vegetables ( vegetarian) it was delicious! Staff were efficient and very friendly!

The Sunday carvery smells divine. Can't wait to try it.

Came for a carvery with the family on Sunday, and the new chef is a great success!! Delicious mouthwatering beef and homemade yorkies and very reasonably priced. Will definitely be coming back here to try the chefs food from the main menu 🤗

Nice place, comfortable. Very good darts supper, and to top it all we WON.

Excellent service with a warm and welcoming atmosphere. Food was great quality, delicious and reasonably priced . Great facilities for all ages , including play park , games room and big screen live sports . Definitely recommend and will be returning again .

Lovely local pub with live music.

Very busy at lunch time. But the staff managed very well.

Proper local, been going afterwork for years, nice food, pool, darts

Great staff and customer service

Visited recently to watch friends band play, Good Night for all.

Staff can be rude at times, menu list has decreased if you are a vegan you will struggle when asking for certain items they make you feel like you are asking for too much.

Very good neighborhood pub, old but still standing good. Prices are reasonable and staff are smart.

First time, Sunday Carvery fantastic and great value 5*

Good pub with a decent atmosphere, food is amazing and priced fairly. Try the fish & chips, (The fish is amazing)

Nice local pub. Ideal for quick lunch. Good prices and selection of dishes.

Needs some work here got potential, iff not enough kitchen staff don't take big orders on,to many mistakes, staff tried there best but must of been humiliating for them.

Brilliant food, great prices, friendly people

Cheap and cheerful. The food on the carvery does the job for the price that it is, and business seems good in there. Not somewhere I’d choose, but clearly has a market of regulars which is good.

We visited the pub for sunday lunch. Unfortunately it wasn’t worth the money. We didn’t expected much for under £10 but unfortunately the meat was cold (we had mainly turkey) the mash was very hard and most of the vegetables didn’t had any taste.

The Willow pub Thurmaston Leicester, UK is a great place to watch live rock group's on Saturday,free of charge.This family friendly pub offer a great menu, quiz night, Children's playground & a lot more, call them with your enquiries tel.0116 269 3549

Went for a Sunday Carvery very nice and staff very friendly we have booked again . The food was nice and hot and the meat was very tasty

Ate here today for the first time with my partner and his daughter , WOW! Staff were so friendly the eating area was clean spacious and light, the food was brilliant and plenty to choose from, the meat was so tasty and tender and the Yorkshire puddings were to die for, great price too! The Shiraz was stunning and a great selection of guns too . We’ll definitely be back

Thankyou to you and your staff for staying open through the early stages of the coronavirus. I hope they do not close you.

Love the drink selection here and the food was lovely. So glad this place is under new management, just had recent refurb.

Recently Refurbished well priced food n beer family friendly aslo have bt sports so good all-rounder

Love this place now. Secound visit and still impressed. Keep up the good work. Nice meal. Have guest wifi i see..

Disappointed is looking in the fridge to find there is no milk left, seeing a chef picking his nose when he prepares your food is just downright disgusting, i’ve used The Willow off and on for years and all my family live in Thurmaston and i have never seen it this dead, the place is always empty, that should tell you something. I know lots of former regulars and all of them have said the same thing, that the place has gone downhill massively since Paul and Jan left, i haven’t heard a good word said about the new owners and i know plenty that won’t even use the place now, its such a shame to see a great old boozer ruined by the new management! I can only reply once a month on here due to the rules of the site, so this is my last word on the matter. 👋

Terrible service, uninterested staff and i saw the chef with the tattoos on his neck picking his nose, i was so disgusted i left my food, avoid this place like the plague.

I accompanied a group of residents from a care home and felt the staff were very accommodating. They rearranged the seating so that three wheelchairs fitted comfortably round the table. The food was really tasty with lots of vegetables cooked to my taste...not rock hard as they often are. The pub was clean and looked modern but comfortable. Would definitely go there again.

Alway very friendly staff some times a wait for food but always good quality can also recommend the Sunday carvary good price tables always clean and fresh

We Held a family meal of 42 people on Sunday, nothing was too much trouble for staff. Place was clean food is nice and atmosphere is lovely definitely would come again and recommend

Clean environment and friendly staff . Lunch menu very basic pub grub. Lots of peas but salmon smothered in unappealing parsley sauce.

Visited with my family, Great big pub. Bit of a hidden gem as never been here before and my whole family live local.

Really busy here now, I am a local and very pleased with the new menu and staff. I had baguette and had burger. Booth pleasant on each occasion. They have Ice cold stella which is a win win !

The Food here is lovely now it is under new ownership. I think if you have been here before May / June. you might want to give it another go.

Had a lovey meal here on saturday. Nice to see carvery on sunday also. needed one locally.

Have bean going to the willow for a few years,since jan and paul left,it has become a ghost pub.The new landlord,i think his name is dick or rich,has not got a clue.He COULD HAVE MADE A BIG SUCCESS OF THE PLACE.But i think he is a bit backward.His wife is very very rude and the joke of the pub.Since jan and paul left they have stopped the food,got rid of 2 pool teams and barred so many the place is now empty every day and night.The staff turnover is unreal.How the hell everards stand for this no one knows.

The food was bad, service is crap and place is disgusting. Look at the trays they serve the food in. Unbelievable

The menu is poor to look at not to mention eat from! The food is usually cold or microwaved beyond recognition, there’s nothing fresh about it.

I went to the willow for a family members birthday meal, the roast dinner was nice lots of meat and lots of veg and nice gravy, the dessert however was not so nice they had no custard so I said I would have ice cream with my syrup sponge, my spoon couldn't go through the sponge has it was rock hard , so I ask for my money back , I couldn't fault the roast dinner or the young lad that served our table

Pint tasted watered Down. The service was incredibly slow. Waited at the bar for over 10 minutes to be served while the bar staff talked to each other. Not in any hurry to go back.

This place doesn’t even deserve one star.

We called in at The Willow today, for an early evening meal, knowing it was a

Been going there for 20 years new landlord and landlady are terrible will never go again was run by 2 proper people now has turned into a place I would never take my kids or any of my family they are very rude and can't understand how they could even own a pub never mind run one you will see for yourself when you go there they are very rude and not the kind of people I would want to entertain

They handled a party of 8 of us and a babe with ease. The food was good, service great and quality of the meat and veg was very good quality.Reasonable value too,

I couldn't let our recent trip to The Willow pass without commenting on the excellent staff. This was my first visit although my wife had been before. The first thing that struck me was the friendliness of the staff. It wasn't just one member of staff, everyone we dealt with was very helpful and pleasant. They even tweaked the menu so that we could have veggie sausages as a carvery option and then came to find us when they were ready. Nothing was too much trouble for them. We'll certainly be back.

Popped in on a week day lunch time. Food we had was very nice and reasonably priced. Drinks were a tad on the expensive side, but overall a pleasant experience, Staff were friendly. I would return

Previous visits ok, but when visiting the restaurant today I noticed that the regular meat carver wasn't there and another member of staff was carving the meat. Even though she had disposable gloves on, she picked up the meat with her hands before placing on the plates (cross contamination) also wiping her hands many times down her apron, and was continuously pushing doors open with the same gloves on. Not very hygienic

The drinks are a little on the high side in term of price, but the food is very good and well priced. With a nice beer garden out back this is worth a visit.

Went in for lunch and had a pizza. Freshly made and lovely, nice pint and everyone in the place seemed happy. Nice staff and friendly as you'd expect. Only slight concern was as they had a carvery on they also had the heating on, it was boiling, went into the main bar for another pint and a cool down. Really nice place totally recommend it.

This is a lovely building and the staff were very nice. I imagine it would be very nice for a drink in the evening. However, this is about the food. I chose a simple meal which should not be possible to fail but I was wrong. The sausage and mash was described as Lincolnshire sausage and garden peas. Well, the definition of Lincs sausage is quite clear and these were cheap frozen sausages that I didn't eat. Imagine the look of the type of thing people feed kids on out of the freezer that don't cost much and you get the idea. No noticeable herbs in them (required to be called a Lincs) and more like pureed meat (Lincs should be fairly chunky). Then there were the garden peas. A simple thing which should be quite a vibrant green and soft not a grey / green and like bullets. I didn't eat those either and did say they weren't garden peas but the staff said they added bicarb to them - why! The mash was OK, the gravy clearly merely a poor mix. Mind you, they had Everard's Old Original beer one, a personal favourite. Except, it didn't taste anything like it. An extremely poor experience which is such a shame with nice staff and a lovely building.