Leicestershire Restaurants

Mem Saab Fine Dine and Champagne Bar

Mem Saab in Leicester adopts a colonial approach by naming their restaurant as a reminder of the days of the British Raj in India, but the decor is contemporary and so is the ambience, although the food is traditional and just as delicious as you would expect it to be.

• Address: R17 59-59a Highcross Lane, Highcross Shopping Centre, Leicester, LE1 4PG (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Indian, Bar
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £12.00, Dinner: £30.00

Mobius Bar & Restaurant

Mobius is a very smart restaurant in Leicester, an acknowledged multi-racially inhabited city with a menu to match. An eclectic approach to the cuisine makes for exciting surprises, even if it does not produce anything particularly new in the actual dishes.

• Address: 35 Braunstone Gate, Leicester, LE3 5LH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European, Thai
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £28.00

Nando's - Leicester, Aylestone Road

With quality food, friendly staff, quick service and excellent value for money, Nando's is a great place to eat. Don't expect identikit, pre-fab restaurant interiors which are usually a staple of the larger chains; each restaurant is tailored to its local surroundings and customers, offering up a unique restaurant experience to go with the equally unique taste of legendary, Portuguese, Peri-Peri chicken.

• Address: Freeman's Leisure Park, 86 Aylestone Road, Leicester, LE2 7LB (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Portuguese, Casual
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £11.00, Dinner: £16.00

Nando's - Leicester, Granby Street

With quality food, friendly staff, quick service and excellent value for money, Nando's is a great place to eat. Don't expect identikit, pre-fab restaurant interiors which are usually a staple of the larger chains; each restaurant is tailored to its local surroundings and customers, offering up a unique restaurant experience to go with the equally unique taste of legendary, Portuguese, Peri-Peri chicken.

• Address: 50 Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 1DH (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Portuguese, Casual
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £11.00, Dinner: £16.00

Nando's - Leicester, Highcross

With quality food, friendly staff, quick service and excellent value for money, Nando's is a great place to eat. Don't expect identikit, pre-fab restaurant interiors which are usually a staple of the larger chains; each restaurant is tailored to its local surroundings and customers, offering up a unique restaurant experience to go with the equally unique taste of legendary, Portuguese, Peri-Peri chicken.

• Address: Block B2A, Highcross, Shires Walk, Leicester, LE1 4FP (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Portuguese, Casual
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £11.00, Dinner: £16.00

Noodle Bar, The

Serving food all inspired by fresh flavours from Eastern cultures, the recently refurbished Noodle Bar is a peaceful and comfortable restaurant in the heart of Whitwick and near Swannington, Coalville and Ashby de la Zouch.

• Address: 6 Market Place, Whitwick, Coalville, nr Ashby-de-la-Zouch, LE67 5DT (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Asian, Chinese, Cantonese
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £12.00

Old Bull's Head, The

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The Old Bull's Head is a typical village pub that has a stylish contemporary feel, a light open dining room with a striking centrepiece in the form of a wall to ceiling glass wine cellar. Its stylish interiors, spacious restaurant and large bar are much prized by the locals in the leafy village of Woodhouse Eaves and those who come from further afield to savour its appeal.

• Address: 134 Main Street, Woodhouse Eaves, nr Loughborough, LE12 8RZ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): English, Modern British, Gastropub
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £28.00

Orchard Restaurant

An impressive feature of The Best Western Premier Yew Lodge Hotel is the fact that it is completely peaceful even though it is located close to both the M1 and East Midlands Airport.  The family-owned refuge began life as an 18th century country house, later a humble tea room, and today, a modern hotel that offers a hundred bedrooms, modern conference and fitness facilities, a swimming pool, jacuzzi, steam rooms, sauna, the library bar, and the lovely two AA rosette Orchard restaurant.

• Address: The Yew Lodge Hotel, Packington Hill, Kegworth, nr East Midlands Airport, DE74 2DF (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £18.00, Dinner: £47.00

Peacock Inn, The

Located in the village of Redmile, between Nottingham and Grantham, and not a hundred miles from Belvoir Castle is a traditional country inn called The Peacock. The 18th century refuge provides the perfect setting to appreciate the beauty of the simpler things in life, more so if you're leading a very busy one.

• Address: Church Corner, Redmile, NG13 0GA (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Modern British, Modern European
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: N/A, Dinner: £32.00

Pizza Express - Leicester

Pizza Express remains a hugely popular bedrock of casual eating. Its popularity is testimony to the fact that across the country, they have restaurants where you will always be guaranteed a good nosh, with children's tastes being well catered for.

• Address: 4 King Street, Leicester, LE1 6RJ (Map)
• Cuisine(s): Pizza & Pasta
• Avg. Cost Per Head Lunch: £15.00, Dinner: £21.00