'Ronnie Roos will give you the blues'

Lara Alsaid was looking forward to an end of the week pint when she walked into Ronnie Roos bar. However, she was faced by empty chairs, silence and £5 pints. Was this really the place everybody had been raving about?

It is Friday night and me and my mates are looking for a bar where we can round up a tough week of uni. We walk down Millstone Lane in Leicester centre, longing for a cold pint. We find a bar, tucked away in between two buildings. We walk through the alley into the courtyard and as I look up I see it’s covered with string lights. The beer garden is right outside the bar and I think to myself “this bar has potential”. It’s empty and we find the staff at the back of the bar. They seem unaccustomed to having customers but they serve food and pints. “It could still work” we think, optimistically. Our optimism is unfounded. It doesn’t work. This is a dreadful bar.

Ronnie Roos on Millstone Lane is normally a tapas bar with a nice beer garden. Sometimes when you walk past you can hear loud music playing from inside, however, it is always empty. During my first year of uni, I spent a lot of time in that bar because it was convenient. The relationship between Ronnie’s and me is like those you know will never work out but you always give them a second chance to prove themselves but they just let you down. That’s how it is with Ronnie’s. Every time I go there, I can’t wait until we leave for the next bar.

When you go out for a pint, you’re looking for the right atmosphere to enjoy it. A pint of beer is a pint of beer. What makes it special is the ambiance of the place you have it in.

Something Leicester has is good pub and bar life. It is easy to find a good place for a pint in Leicester, where you’ll see faces, hear music, and be able to have a good chat with your friends.

Even though Ronnie’s has great resources to reach its potential, it is always empty, the pints are overpriced, as you’re expected to pay more than £5 for a glass of cider and it has no character.

Student thinking of making a quick exit

The expectations are high when you hear about this hidden gem of a bar in the city of lively Leicester. You see pictures online and it looks decent, it looks cozy. Then you go there and you’re given a rude awakening when you realise it is nothing like it was advertised to be. You find yourself sitting awkwardly watching people walk in, look around, realise it is dead and walk right back out to find something livelier on a Friday night. Now, you’re sitting there kicking yourself for not doing the same and wasting your last £5.

Therefore, I’m ending my relationship with Ronnie Roos and will give them one star out of five. That one star is for the potential it has.