Our September visit was an excursion into an alternative Indian cuisine where most of our members sampled Indian Street Food for the first time during our experience at Mowgli Street Food Restaurant in St Martin’s in the centre of Leicester.
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The venue for our August visit was a new restaurant which had only been open for a few days and is situated on the main Belgrave Road at the very start of the famous Golden Mile.
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Julys nominated restaurant was the Royal Leicester in Lockerbie Walk in Rushey Mead. An easy destination with plenty of parking.
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This month we found a new “back street” pub-style Indian Restaurant – The Durham Ox at the end of Catherine Street. The team running the old Wyvern Arms has taken over and run the kitchen.
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Just down the road from last month’s Herb restaurant, was one of the newest Indian restaurants in Leicester, Indiana Bar & Restaurant. It doesn’t look particularly big from the outside but as soon as you walk in it opens out with plenty of room and a good area for the drinkers to enjoy the bar.
DetailsThe Herb restaurant in Granby Street came highly recommended and having studied the website, the impressively tasteful decorative furnishings used to complement its interior and create an ambience uncommon among its rivals it was the obvious choice for our new exciting venture.
DetailsFor our March visit I had originally planned to visit a restaurant on the western side of the county, but due to heavy snow fall during the day, a 6.30pm decision to abort the trip meant that I had to find a last minute alternative.
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February’s delight was Avatar Dining in Lutterworth. A Nepalese restaurant in the market town of Lutterworth. The restaurant is located on Market Street with plenty of free parking in the market square.
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Our first visit for 2023 was a unique one. Set inside the Leicester Railwaymens Club & Institute on the corner of Leicester Street and East Park Road. On entering, it feels like you are walking into a bygone era, a huge club with reception desks. The building is vast with a function room, club room, darts, skittles, snooker, and a well-stocked and well ran bar. Being a club, we were asked to sign in at the bar. Football was on, and there were a few people in tonight. I imagined what it might have been like in the 70s and 80s full most nights. It was already great to experience this unique club.
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It was a close run contest again at the end of the year with a clear favourite already established and expected by all of us to win, but a December visit to Market Harborough changed things by the smallest of margins at the last minute. Following that visit we had our 2022 Leicester Curry Club winner, as voted for by our team of unbiased and enthusiastic self proclaimed ‘curry connoisseurs’ which we all know, might not be the best recommendation, but without wishing to appear pretentious it will have to do for the purpose of our research and resulting reviews.
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