Cinnamon Kitchen

Dinner at Cinnamon Kitchen

Excellent food and good service, as ever. The poor acoustics and a typical Friday night crowd make this a less suitable restaurant for a serious business dinner than a gathering with friends! The menu and wine lsit might be longer to cater for some tastes but otherwise hard to find fault.

Perfect place for a business lunch

Outstanding, inspirational, memorable food. Attentive service and a lovely atmosphere. Can't wait to go back.

Best flavourful cocktail & canapes

Amazing wednesday and Thursday night crowd. Spice infused cocktails and the best bit is the bar food they have. Scrumptious and reasonably priced being in the city and surrounded by some top contenders. They also have some great deals on through the week so check out their website before you book a booth. Sometime you also get free canapes platter for group bookings..pretty awesome right?

I am amazed this restaurant gets 2 stars! Bland food at high prices. Not a patch on the Mint Leaf at Angel Court.
Starters of Tandoori Chicken and Spinach fritter were ordinary at best. Main courses of Chicken, Lamb and fish were presented well but really under spiced. It was similar to parents cooking spicy food for kids-don't put much in!

Not impressed and will not return.

This new Indian beacon in the peaceful surrounds of Devonshire Square makes the most of its heritage sight – it's a nice contemporary spin on a historical warehouse setting. I loved the elliptical lampshades whose light softens the setting's harder edges. Currently there's lots of space between tables and the user-friendly menu reflects rather than duplicates the Westminster template, but despite a relatively tight set of options I found them all appealing.

Excellent flavours, nice spicing, lots of wider Asian influences. Loved the aubergine dish, above. Look forward to trying the tandoor bar.

Private room with full view of kitchen is bright, fun and stylish.

5.12.11
Went back last week and tried their excellent canape tasting menu. This is a brilliant way of trying 14 dishes for just £30. I'd forgotten just how good the crab and cod cake with a green prea ratia shot was. Other favourites included the intense-flavoured sweet corn soup, the tandoori black leg chicken breast, and the shrikhand cheesecake with tamarind glazed berries.

Excellent food. I tend to have my out of office informal and formal client luncheons at Cinnamon Club. And the good part is that, each and every client has left licking their fingers. I would suggest this place to all. Only drawback I have found is the loud music from the bar spoils the cosy dinner.

Excellent food. Shame the music from the adjoining bar spoils the atmosphere of the restaurant (too loud!)

I would have given Cinnamon Kitchen a 10 for food if the main courses were as good as the starters and the grill dishes. The chilli pepper with paneer was not at all what I expected it to be but was one of the most divine and original tasting things Ive eaten in a long time and was so more-ish. The cocktails were delicious, the bill reasonable, and the staff friendly but only thing nice about the layout and design was the light coverings; the restaurant has a horrible canteen feel and the battleship grey does nothing for the look of a restaurant.

Every once in a while, you encounter a restaurant dish that just makes you realise why you love food so much and why sometimes, you are quite happy to pay frightening sums of money for such a basic commodity. Once you've devoured it and wallowed in it's splendid and glory, you then suffer the lingering after affects. It's with you constantly, like you a new puppy nudging you to remind you it's there, clinging to your senses. It's with you on the train to work, down the pub on a Friday with your mates and dare I say in bed with you and your partner when at that time, there should be many other wonderful thoughts drifting through your mind. Other food and dishes become insignificant and pointless. Eventually, you can gradually let go and return to some foodie normality.

I am talking of course about the Pistachio cake served at the end of my meal by the Cinnamon Kitchen in Devonshire Square. OMG, how fragrant and wonderful it was, a soft green, grassy valley of flavour and textures where you run bare footed and care free like some character from the Sound of Music. This was my first meal with this little sister of the Cinnamon family which also links up with Bar Anise adjoining. A fabulous and vibrant joint and an ideal meeting place to sip some great cocktails before your meal, but for some reason always lacking in customers?

The service at the Cinnamon Kitchen felt just right although the wine waiter seemed somewhat lost with our request for a pint of Guinness. Our table of four opted to try five different starters and we all agreed that the vegetarian Bengali style vegetable cake was a sure winner with the pork ribs a close second. The mains were just as impressive. The biryani we ordered served two and was good value and you can choose either chicken, vegetable or lamb. A truly magnificent and fragrant dish, so delicate and yet so flavoursome served in it's own little ceramic pot. But hang on what's this arriving with our steak, “Masala Potatoes Wedges” having the appearance and texture of wet Guinea pig's ears and reminiscent of those frozen fellows you can buy for in Iceland for next to nothing. Come on Cinnamon Kitchen, please drop those floppy awful things in the bin where they belong and be a bit more creative with your potatoes!

My second visit to CK but this time, it was not warm enough to sit out on the terrace, which was a shame as I cannot say that I am particularly blown away by the room itself. Yes it is big, grand and elegant, but the regimented table layout means that you are aligned and very close to the neighbouring tables (a particular bug bear of mine) and many diners do tend to take a somewhat haphazard route through the room, meaning that many tables feel like you are sitting in a throughfare to the “facilities”. The noise from their neightbouring bar was also much more noticeable this time and is somewhat at odds with the elegance of the restaurant.

That said, the food is nigh on fautless. A trip to India some years ago has made me somewhat picky when it comes to Indian food, but the menu at CK is simply gorgeous. My starter of venison kebabs created a lovely slow burn on the palate as all the flavours developed whilst my friend's Welsh lamb version had so many layers of flavour it was almost beyond belief. Service was relaxed, unhurried and knowledgable – I couldn't decide between the barramundi or king prawns for main course and was gently swayed to the former by the waiter. A fabulous choice as the fish and seafood curry that arrived was full of flavour and beautifully presented. Portion sizes are pretty good – we didn't have room for dessert.

It is not the cheapest of places but for authentic Indian taste and flavour with a modern twist, it is highly recommended. Just that personally, I'll be saving my next visit for when the conditions allow al fresco eating!