Uncover Hidden Loughborough Restaurants Gems
Loughborough, a charming town in the heart of England, is not just known for its rich history and vibrant sports culture, but also for its diverse culinary scene. The town boasts an array of restaurants that cater to a variety of tastes and preferences. From traditional British pubs serving hearty meals, to exquisite fine dining establishments offering international cuisine, Loughborough's restaurants promise a delightful gastronomic journey. Whether you're a local, a student at the renowned Loughborough University, or a visitor exploring the town, the array of dining options will surely impress. This article will guide you through some of the best restaurants in Loughborough, ensuring your dining experience is nothing short of exceptional.
The radmoor restaurant
4.3
(21)
Reviews:
Brilliant experience. This is a training restaurant but the food was first rate. Excellent food for an amazing price. Well worth it. Great to support the college as well.
Chris Adamczyk
Brilliant food at a great price. Service was excellent with staff very attentive and nice. Well presented food. Will definitely be back. Thank you .
SOPHIE NOCTOR
We had a great three course lunch today. All tasty & well presented. The only (slight) criticism was the portion size of the veggie main course had by one of our party. The mushroom open lasagne was very small (no pic as wasn't my choice) in comparison to the other mains of chicken chasseur & salmon. Maybe if it had been served with e.g garlic bread or a side salad? Still fantastic value and very enjoyable.
Liz Twitchell
Came here for an event at the college. Food was decent and the space was well used. Nothing else to comment on here. If you are at the college I am sure this would be a useful place to grab some food.
Daniel Alexander
Went there for a burn’s night Meal, the food was amazing fantastic. And the service for the students was great they worked hard and well as a team. A very nice night
OldLien1
Radmoor Rd, Loughborough LE11 3BT, UK
Plan burrito
4.6
(390)
Reviews:
The burrito I had was incredible, one of the best I've tried. If you order the 'really large' burrito, keep in mind it really is massive. The churros could have been better, 3/5, not crispy enough. Also, my takeout bag held the weight of my food for about a minute before collapsing. Otherwise great experience.
Eloi Lopez
Food was great, very filling. It was my first time there and the attendant explained it to me. The meal deal wasn't pointed out or mentioned so I may have spent more than I needed to when I could've spent less for more. I would just say they should point out meal deals with customers so they can save a bit. The disco music videos on screen were a bit out of theme I expected more of a Hispanic influence but that may be just me. Overall good experience, just be sure to grab a meal deal to spend less.
DavetasticDave
The food was scrumptious and I definitely will be be going back many more times !
NightHawk
Honestly one of the best places to eat in Loughborough. Food is fresh and delicious and just as tasty as you get in the southern US (closest I’ve been to date to Mexico). Service always quick and friendly, too. Can’t recommend enough. Long may it reign. ¡Viva Plan Burrito!
Ben Hunjan
Phenomenal burritos. Best in Leicestershire by a country mile, always fast service with a smile! Highly recommended. Been coming here for years and they've never disappointed!
Elizabeth Lakesman
57 Ashby Rd, Loughborough LE11 3AA, UK
Harvester wheatsheaf loughborough
4.1
(1932)
Simple, child-friendly chain restaurant serving grilled meat, salads, pasta & seafood.
Reviews:
I took my son out for dinner in the evening so was quite dark outside, (late October), and I didn't notice that the car park had a camera system. Car park was almost full and I was focussed on finding a spot. I've been to this Harvester several times over nearly a decade and there was no camera system until more recently, which is another reason why I didn't notice. Imagine my surprise when a £100 parking fine turns up a week later. Why didn't any of the staff ask if we had parked? Please instruct your staff to ask guests if they have parked so they don't get stung as well. With the prices of everything going through the roof, the last thing I needed was a £100 parking fine. I'm so angry, I feel like I've been scammed. I binned the receipt the day after the meal, so I can't contest the fine now. The food was fine and it was a good steak. No complaints about the food/service at all, but I will never come back.
simon stringer
It had been many years since I had been to a harvester. In that time though they have really made improvements to their menu, the food was very good and tasty. It was very clean with excellent polite and helpful service. The price was also very reasonable. Only thing that let it down a tiny bit was the cheese they used for the burgers was that liquid stuff you get out of a squeezy bottle, so not great. So please harvester if you read this, use proper cheese for a burger..
stephen jefferies
Had the burger it was good pub grub. Loved the salad bar, the bacon bits were my favourite. Good solid pub vibes.
Laura Smith
Would have been 5 stars for the food but we ordered 3 steaks - 1 medium rare ,1 medium and 1 well done all of them were red in the middle but when mentioned it was dealt with immediately. Becky who served us was polite, jolly, informative and very professional she was a real gem she lightened the evening up for us and deserved all the praise she got. Will go back again enjoyed the food especially enjoyed the service and the whole experience was really good.
martin prime
We arrived about 3.45pm as a group of nine without a booking. The lady looked a little hesitant but went to talk to her manager. They quickly prepared a table for us and mentioned they had a party of 20 due so maybe we’d like to order fairly quickly. The staff were superb, often popping over to make sure everything was ok. When we arrived there were a couple of tables occupied. When we left it was half full but although they were busy we were still well looked after. The food was excellent, plenty of choices and combinations, delicious, hot and generous without being too enormous. Definitely a great place for a happy family treat.
Alison Briggs
New Ashby Rd, Ashby Rd, Loughborough LE11 4EX, UK
Prince garden restaurant &shisha
4.5
(154)
Reviews:
Although the waiter was a little.... 'Rude' the food was absolutely fantastic. Atmosphere was really cool, decor was clean and respectful, portion sizes were good enough for healthy appatites and service was as you would expect. Will definitely return again. Very happy.
Adam Cichy
Service and the vibe was awful. The Kurdish food I ordered was well below the lowest standard I’ve ever tried anywhere else in the world. I am sure the person who cooked has no idea about flavour or how to cook a basic Kurdish or other dishes. It was a lot of really flavourless meet and rice which I ended up taking it back to my dog, he enjoyed it, I think. Come on guys pay attention to quality not quantity. I paid £12 for lamb kozi that I couldn’t eat, I rather pay £15 or 18 for less but proper tasty food.
mariwan nottingham
The starters were delicious, the lamb kebabs were really fatty. Didn't make we feel well. Hardly any service, constantly had to get their attention and clear plates and pay.
c “C” b
Highly recommended place in Loughborough. The food was amazing! We got the platter for two, moussaka and kunafa, everything was delicious. Very good prices, portion size and nice atmosphere. We will be back
Constantina Sofroniou
Definitely worth spending time here to enjoy the food. Everything we tried was top in taste. Great service no complaints. One of the places we will definitely return to!
Lukasz Taborski
3 Granby St, Loughborough LE11 3DU, UK
Nando's loughborough
4.2
(978)
Afro-Portuguese chain restaurant serving flame-grilled chicken in spicy chilli sauce.
Reviews:
Popped in for lunch after a bowling trip with my daughter, and this has been the best experience eating out in a while! Our server, Jacob, was highly attentive and amazing with interacting with my daughter and even talking about her colouring when he came to check us. Absolute credit to the team. Big shout to the chefs too, I know they can lose out on the limelight sometimes, but the food was perfect and served very fast! Overall a massive thanks to all the team, and we will be seeing you again soon 🙌
Matt Way
Update from last evening(2Aug23): After a long time of not visiting, yesterday felt right to do it, a weekday, not too busy. It reveals to be the worse idea ever. Never got served a "wooden" chicken plater before, although we tried to dig in the very hard and dry chicken. It was like chewing "sugar cane without the juice" if you know what that means. By the time we got a waiter and then reached a manager, all sides were cold. The duty manager offered us half a chicken (as they did not have any other choices at that time). So, we got half a decent chicken (not whole like in the original full platter order) to eat with leftover sides cold chips. Needless to say that we asked for a take away box, and took the chicken away with us and went home to get some warm airfryer oven chips to go with it. Therefore, until we forget this latest eating out experience "Not Nandos" is on the blacklisted ban again. - It's Nando's...depending on how busy the branch is, the quality varies. It was edible and decent, as we people are...some days better than others... from almost edible to really nice...this time was in the middle...and sadly...no olive oil to season our salad (it was not supplied on request, as there were no more bottles available - according to our table assistant). Toilets (male) in need of some tlc maintenance, after the 3rd time visit and the middle hand wash sensor faucet was still broken - maybe next time ;)
World Panda
Last week, I decided to have a meal with my family at Nando’s, when we arrived we were greeted by a man wearing a blue t-shirt who seemed to be the manager. It wasn’t that busy so we were seated abruptly. We eventually made our order at the counter to the manager and ordered a starter of pitta bread and hummus along with our mains. When the food arrived, we received our three mains and one pitta bread and a small block of butter. We asked about the hummus we ordered with the pitta bread and the man in the blue shirt said ‘my bad bro’ .We expected him to then bring the correct order. However he did not. We found this very rude in the way he apologised and did not even bother to replace it. The customer service was very poor.
Rh3a “Rh3a”
where do i begin. me and two other friends came in one evening, we all ordered online and all was fine, the issue was with the lack of service and care. i had ordered my meal first, yet the other two orders arrived first, fine, i get that it can take time for these things. the second friend to get their food however was deeply apologised too for how there food was late. whilst i still had neither my food nor drink. cut to about 30 minutes post ordering, i can see what i believe is my meal sitting on the hot serve area, chips are missing but im at least hopeful that my food has not been forgotten. chips are put on 5 minutes later, great, my food is ready, right? nope, the people at the counter are busy stacking glass cups in a pyramid and all the people waitering are just walking past my meal. i can see the food is ready, it only took 10 minutes for someone on their break to overhear my conversation and ask if im missing my food, i told him its been sitting there for about 15 minutes. they brought it over , no apologies or nothing. burger was now stale and the chips weren’t great.
Sahil Hoque
Ordered via deliveroo app, cost me £50 for two meals. The chicken tasted of chemicals and was completely inedible. Phoned the restaurant and they offered us nothing. Also gave us no sauce, which is the whole point of nandos. Terrible. Absolutely terrible. So we paid £50 for chips and two cans of pop... How's that for value? Insanity. Certainly will never be going here again.
Ben
Unit 2 Baxter Gate, Loughborough LE11 1TH, UK
Peter pizzeria
4.6
(797)
Reviews:
Really enjoyed our meal here. Pizzas were excellent. Prices were reasonable. Service was good. Slight struggle to park nearby.
Ali Sanaei
I love this restaurant and the space they have. The courtyard is beautiful with fires to keep you warm. The pizzas are simple yet delicious with a good variety of toppings. Top tip, I like my pizza crispy so make sure to mention it when ordering 🍕
Jess Eva
Real and authentic pizza experience - lovely flavour combination on The Old 3 that I had. Pistachio works so well! Really speedy service. I loved receiving an intact pizza that I cut up myself. All round great place... thoroughly recommend. 😋
Chris P
Amazing ambience and pizza's. Loved it. Too good taste and worth the price. Loved the Bruchettas and the Queen pizza was amazing. The truffle mayo was so tasty. Enzo was excellent. Will definitely come again.
Dimple Rana
Hi we were dropping our son back at uni so all stopped here for lunch. The weather was great so we sat outside. Our waiter Juan was really attentive and pointed out different parts of the menu that might interest us. The pizzas were so good. Then as they were launching the new menu we also got to try a Mediterranean starter plate FOC . This was olives roasted tomatoes feta cheese etc. really good too. I’d say don’t chop up the fresh tomatoes and serve it on a colourful plate and it would be even better . It was such a good experience Thank you we’ll come back whenever we’re in Loughborough again.
Sarah Healy
17-18 Baxter Gate, Loughborough LE11 1TG, UK
Sonny's street food
4.6
(341)
Reviews:
It was a brilliant restaurant in Loughborough. I visited here today as I wanted to have Thai food. I had fried rice, spring rolls and coconut rice. All of them were very delicious and I will be visit here again when I visit Loughborough soon.
Jimin Kim
The food here was fantastic. The portion sizes were so generous and everything was full of flavour. The vegetable spring rolls and prawn tempuras were perfectly crisp and light. The ingredients were clearly fresh and well prepared, we thoroughly enjoyed both starters. For the main course we selected pad Thai and red curry, both were delicious and despite the mammoth portions we couldn’t help but to clear our plates! The Pad Thai came with a small pot of spices which really elevated the dish, it brought a warming heat and welcomed further layers of flavour. Our only complaint would be the service, we were poorly attended to. After some minutes of sitting at our empty table I had to collect our own menus and request that our order be taken. Furthermore, our starter dishes were not cleared until the main courses were being served. The servers never once checked on us during the meal which was rather disappointing. Overall, we would certainly come here again. There was no denying the food was gorgeous, hopefully next time the service will live up to the quality of the dishes.
Jess
Food portions were large and the food was delicious. A noteable drink was the Thai milk tea, it's probably the best tea I've ever had, the flavour was so good. Staff was friendly and service was quick.
Gavin Koo
Such a gem!! I've been going for years, tried loads of dishes and all of them are great!! Everyone I've brought there has enjoyed it and I'm so happy every time I get to eat there. The staff are so great as well. Food is affordable and I would come into Loughborough just for Sonnys.
Jasmine N
Is it closed now. Drove from Leicester today but shop fully closed. Looks permanently closed. So sad if shut. Love their noodle soups. Update.... Not closed... They were closed August as they were having some work done and on staff holiday. Phew...... Noodle soup yum yum
Rob Griffiths
13 a/b, 13 Swan St, Loughborough LE11 5BJ, UK