What better way to celebrate buying or renting a new home in Leicester than with a top-class meal in a Leicester restaurant?
Fortunately, our great city is packed with great restaurants – food for thought if you’re considering a move to Leicester. And if you fancy travelling a little further afield, there are no fewer than ten Michelin-starred venues within a 60-minute drive of the city.
The 2017 Michelin Guide has just been released and features plenty of choice if you want the perfect special-occasion venue to celebrate selling your Leicester home, buying a new house or renting the perfect apartment in the city – helped by Keywest, of course.
Close to home, Mountsorrel’s John’s House has earned itself a coveted Michelin star, as has Hambleton Hall, located in nearby Rutland, and there are eight others that are all within really easy reach, wherever you choose to live in Leicester.
John’s House has John Duffin at the helm. He worked in some of Britain’s best restaurants before going back to his roots and returning to the family’s Stonehurst Farm.
He opened his restaurant there in December of 2014 and received a Michelin star just months later. The farm, run by his brother, provides all but around ten per cent of the ingredients used in the eatery.
John’s House’s trademark dishes include Stonehurst hogget – year-old lamb which is wrapped in hay that has been toasted. This is then boiled using a waterbath for 48 hours.
Hambleton Hall, meanwhile, overlooks Rutland Water and has Aaron Patterson heading the kitchen team. The restaurant first got its Michelin star back in 1982, and it has kept it ever since.
The restaurant’s £92 taster menu features six courses of delicacies such as artichoke and tomato risotto, garden courgette flower and gooseberry and foie gras ballotine.
If you don’t mind travelling a little further for your meal, there is the two-star Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham, where you can tuck into beef burger tartar or scallop with brawn, the one-star Adam’s in Birmingham, where British fine dining is on the menu, or the one-star Carters in Mosely, Birmingham, which is renowned for its aged red deer and flamed mackerel.
Other choices include Purnell’s in Birmingham, which has one Michelin star, Simpsons, and Turners@69, both with one star and located in Birmingham, one-star The Cross at Kenilworth and the one-star Peel’s at the Hampton Manor Hotel at Hampton-in-Arden.
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