The Almanack

The staff were friendly and the food great. will definately eat there again.
If there is one area they do need to improve it’s the vegetarian option.

Self proclaimed Gastropub near Leicester’s Highcross shopping centre.
Modern décor, reasonable menu with good portion sizes, but ambience and service a little lacking.

Good steak (for me) which was worth about 4 stars.
Poor vegetarian option which was worth 2 stars at best.
Leicester has a lot of vegetarians so a good steak hous must have some good (and inspiring) vegetarian choices if it is to be successful.

Only had a Sunday breakfast, free toast is nice. you wait for ever to get your food and at best its luke warm, cant believe that i went twice

The Almanack is in Leicester’s swanky new bit of town, High Cross and, understandably on a Saturday night, it was heaving when we went. Although I don’t live in Leicester any more, I’m told my mates that the Almanack is one of Leicester’s top eateries.
At first, I wasn’t overly impressed. It’s all a bit bright and soul-​less and the décor’s a bit unimaginative. Essentially it’s a grill and the carnivores in our group (all but one) all ordered steak. Before that, though, we had starters — a vegetarian tapas board (hummus, dips etc.) which was fine. Then it was on to the meat! Bar one, the steaks were cooked perfectly and the meat was very flavoursome.
I was stuffed and didn’t have a pudding, but they didn’t look all that special if I’m honest, but my Irish Coffee was just perfect (OK, not the hardest thing to do, but plenty of places stuff it up).
So, I’m a bit undecided star rating wise. Some people (vegetarians and pudding lovers especially) would only give it two or three stars. But I reckon, based on the fact that ⁶⁄₇ steak were perfect, it’s got to be a four for me.