Margaret Louis / 06 May 2025 / Categories: City, Food & Drink, Restaurants

The Monk Quorn offers a Prix Fixe Menu

One of the best restaurants in the Midlands

I love a Prix Fixe menu. And the beauty of the offering at The Monk Quorn is it’s actually the A La Carte menu available Tuesday to Thursday, at a reduced price, £32 for two courses, £38 for three courses.

It’s an unusual spot, a converted cottage in a small Leicestershire village not far from the only Michelin starred restaurant in the Midlands, Johns House in Mountsorrel, a neighbouring village.

The Monk is head and shoulders above the local competition. They have gone the extra mile to offer an extensive range of cocktails, their mixologist can not only deliver boozy, they mix a mean extra dry martini, and not in a tiny two mouthfuls glass, they also have an extensive Mocktail list, very progressive thinking for the health conscious and the drivers.

The menu is hearty and lip smacking for the meat lovers, with a steak night on Wednesdays if steak is your thing.

Gluten Free and Vegan options are available, it did notice a typo on the menu where VEA = gluten free so I don’t imagine they get very many requests for plant based although I tried the whole roasted beetroot and it was pretty good.

It’s a great restaurant with amazing colourful African, I know random interiors, everything coming together to create a truly memorable experience.

Everyone who comes to visit and stay with me is always moaning there aren’t any really really good restaurants in the Midlands.

I think that’s because the customers like what they like, that said the Monk have created a place that stands alone and people will drive to experience.

What’s their USP, I’d say very little if any competition.

This is somewhere to check out if you like fine dining, a fantastic and sometimes unusual wine list with the likelihood you are going to try something different and learn something new.

From the outside it looks like an old chocolate box cottage on the inside you could be anywhere in the world except when the food comes.

If you’ve been to Tom Kerridge at the Corinthia in London the food is similar, with the focus mainly on the cut of meat or fish you have chosen.

There are a couple of veggie options on the menu; I’d like to see a bit more creativity here, there again I understand, in more rural and farming locations, I am definitely in the minority.