Leicester Restaurant Week Starts Today, Giant Monsters Take Over the City Centre, Plus Halloween in Concert!

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK

🍽️ - Leicester Restaurant Week - More Than 45 Places Serving Up Deals Across the City Centre!
📍 - Leicester City Centre
📅 - Mon 19th Oct to Sun 1st Nov
⏰ - Times vary by restaurant
🎟️ - Offers vary by restaurant
📷 - @LeicesterRestaurantWk

For two weeks, more than 45 city centre restaurants, cafés and bars are serving set menus, family deals, discounts and freebies. Chutney Ivy takes half off its à la carte menu, YO! Sushi has a katsu curry deal, and The Frame, featured below, does a mezze, plate and side.

Discounts are the only time "just a starter" ends in three courses and a clear conscience. Book ahead, because everyone else has read the same offers.

THE WEEKLY PLANNER

MONDAY

Halloween Spooktacular & Pumpkin Patch (17th-31st) - Windmill Farm Park
10:00am | More Info

Family Scream (16th Oct-2nd Nov) - Twinlakes Park
10:30am | More Info

Half-Term Mosaic Making (19th-23rd) - Jewry Wall
1:00pm | More Info

TUESDAY

Spooky Ghost Train - Great Central Railway
10:00am | More Info

Family Learning Festival: Story Power - Abbey Park Education Centre
11:00am | More Info

Tricky Tuesday - Haymarket Shopping Centre
11:00am | More Info

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (20th-24th) - Curve Theatre
7:15pm | More Info

WEDNESDAY

Day of the Dead - Newarke Houses Museum
12:00pm | More Info

Philharmonia: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Tchaikovsky - De Montfort Hall
7:00pm | More Info

Bad Immigrant - Curve Theatre
7:30pm | More Info

THURSDAY

Monsters and Bats - Leicester Guildhall
11:00am | More Info

Kevin Bloody Wilson - De Montfort Hall
7:30pm | More Info

FRIDAY

Meet the Police - Leicester Guildhall
11:00am | More Info

Diwali Celebrations - Haymarket Shopping Centre
12:00pm | More Info

Caitlin O'Ryan: At What Point - Attenborough Arts Centre
7:00pm | More Info

SATURDAY

Punch Needle Embroidery - Attenborough Arts Centre
10:30am | More Info

Life Drawing Masterclass - Attenborough Arts Centre
10:30am | More Info

One Tenth Human: So Unfair! - Attenborough Arts Centre
11:00am | More Info

Diwali Celebrations - Beaumont Leys Shopping Centre
11:00am | More Info

Film Club: The Conjuring - National Space Centre
7:00pm | More Info

Comedy Night - Just The Tonic at The Cross
8:00pm | More Info

SUNDAY

Heritage Sundays: The Magazine - Newarke Gateway
11:00am | More Info

Heritage Sundays: Church Tour - St Mary de Castro
2:00pm | More Info

Sitar Music Society: String Beats - Leicester Cathedral
7:00pm | More Info

Halloween in Concert - De Montfort Hall
7:30pm | More Info

SCRUMPTIOUS SCOOP

🍽️ - The Frame - Mezze Platter, King Prawn Pilpil and Lamb Kofta!
📍 - 9 St Martin's Square
⏰ - Mon-Thu: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
⏰ - Fri-Sat: 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
⏰ - Sun: 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
📷 - @theframeuk

The Frame cooks Mediterranean sharing plates over a wood and coal fired grill just off St Martin's Square. The Mezze Platter is built for the whole table, the King Prawn Pilpil arrives sizzling, and the Lamb Kofta is char-grilled to order.

Ordering "just the mezze" has never once, in recorded history, stayed at just the mezze. Bring an appetite, and someone willing to share the last flatbread, in theory.

ACTIVITY ALLEY

🎃 - Leicester Monsters - Eight Giant Beasts Have Taken Over the City Centre!
📍 - Leicester City Centre, Gallowtree Gate
📅 - Thu 22nd to Sun 25th (runs on to 31st)
⏰ - After dark
🎟️ - Free
📷 - @visitleicester

Eight giant illuminated monsters have landed around the city centre for half term, perched on rooftops and lurking round corners from Thursday. The My Leicester App turns the hunt into a prize trail for anyone who tracks down all eight.

Leicester's answer to a kaiju film, except these monsters hold still for the photo. Explaining to a four year old why there's a thirty foot beast on a rooftop is the bit nobody prepared you for.

HOUSE OF THE WEEK

🏡 - A Mock Tudor Palace That Still Needs You to Mow the Lawn!
💰 - Offers Over £725,000
📍 - Furrow Way, Great Glen
🛏️ - 5 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, 2 Reception Rooms
📷 - @sheldonbosleyknight

A five bedroom detached house on the edge of Great Glen, with a double garage and enough bedrooms that every argument about whose turn it is to do the school run can happen in a different room. Three bathrooms means the usual Monday morning queue just stops happening.

A house this size comes with a mowing commitment that will outlast most New Year's resolutions made in its honour. At least there's a garage to hide the mower in afterwards.

LIVE MUSIC

FRIDAY

• The Smyths - O2 Academy Leicester - 7:00pm

• Yumi And The Weather - The Soundhouse - 7:30pm

• MishMash - The Donkey Inn - 7:00pm

• INVICTA AUDIO X 4Forty - 440 Venue - 10:00pm

SATURDAY

• The Tumbling Paddies - O2 Academy Leicester - 7:00pm

• The Amy Winehouse Experience - O2 Academy2 Leicester - 7:00pm

• London, Acme Sewage Co and Drivelheads - Duffy's Bar - 7:30pm

• Leicester: A Nashville Country Music Experience - 2Funky Complex - 7:00pm

SUNDAY

• Siedd with Mikhaael Mala - The Y Theatre - 6:30pm