The Cinnamon Club

Best Indian Restaurant -Must try before you die

My favourite bar and restaurant in London when it comes to Modern Indian food. Best bit is that they also show bollywood movies in their subterranean bar so you can be rest assured of the trendy Indian cocktails before dining in the famous grade 2 listed building The Cinnamon Club. One of the best indian restaurant offering best Indian style cocktails. My favorite was their take on molecular cocktails. Great style and show!Must try their canapes platter as well!

Best dishes on the menu which i found pretty fascinating were- wagyu beef, King prawns, the game dishes such as grouse, quail and red deer in pickling sauce. We our group went for the tasting menu and they do offer vegetarian options for veggies on our table. Beautifully matched wines with each courses complemented by unobtrusive service was a great choice.

All in all I can say do try their sister restaurant Cinnamon kitchen if you work in the city and keep club for the special occasion.

The previous review took the words out of my mouth! The food was good, but unfortunately does not make up for the overall poor experience. The setting and atmosphere remind me of a school cantine snazzed up for the Saturday school dance. It's big and it's neither charming and warm nor trendy and modern, just blah.
Furthermore it was clear that we were forced into the bar prior the sitting to consume a drink. Our table was “not ready yet” although we were 10 min late. Finally at the table, they were out of the first 5 different wines we chose from the wine list, only to be recommended bottles in the top price range. I will never go back and will certainly not recommend anyone to go there.

A Very Disappointing Experience 30/10/12
Retuning to Cinnamon Club for the first time in several years was a great dissappointment.
The food remains a strong point, although the portions seem mean for the prices charged. The decor, however is tired in the extreme, the acoustics dreadful. Service was off-hand, rushed and occasionally rude.
A near-£250 bill (with one bottle and two glases of mid-priced wine and the obligatory ‘service’ charge) for a meal for two, rushed upon us in an hour and fifteen mins was a total waste of money.
I fear it has become a haunt for a loud expense account crowd who do not care much for their dining experience as long as it is a ‘destination’ restaurant; after all, someone else is paying.
Shall not return, even after several more years!

Beautiful, exquisite, refined, polished…and that's just the decor!

Having not visited The Cinnamon Club for many years, I decided to re-visit with my wife recently. It was a pleasant surprise to find that very little has changed. The service was attentive, without being in your face and unhurried and the food was delicious. Perfectly sized portions with just the right amount of spice. Add a bottle of Indian Sula wine – to complete experience! A great restaurant either for a business lunch, large family dinner or a romantic meal for two.

The atmosphere is outstanding as you will never have the opportunity of eating gourmet Indian food in a library, service was good and the food is outstanding, I will be back any time

We got a lovely smiling hostess who suggested having a drink in the bar prior to the meal, which we did. Barman was nice and accommodated a cocktail to my taste. In the end , although we had gone in for the squaremeal offer, we did go for the tasting menu. Food was excellent, although the only thing that annoyed me in the slightest was that when the suggested wines appeared on our table, the waiter was quick to disappear without an explanation, and that also happened when the food arrived. I had to claim a bit of their attention in order to ask what I was being served. All in all, great food, will go again.

Service and value seem to be the general issues with the Cinnamon Club. Personally both were fine for me.

I went for lunch with 2 friends and the set lunch option at £19 for 2 courses was fine value; even allowing for wine, water, service and side dishes our bill came to under £40 per head; it's not quite as good value as Roux, but still reasonable. Service was also very good – in and out in an hour and a quarter, no long waits, the right food and drinks (which were topped up in a non-intrusive manner), the bill arriving quickly when asked for and payments being taken, staff being polite and friendly – basically everything you could want.

Food was average – main course of Thai chicken curry, fine but not special and no better than a number of alternative venues, followed by chocolate and cherry pudding, again OK but certainly not one of those wow moments that you sometimes get served up.

Atmosphere is quiet but pleasant and business like for lunch – the old library seems to have the effect of making people very quiet, almost as if you expect to get told off for talking too loudly. Tables are spacious and reasonably spaced, seating comfortable, everything clean and tidy, the room looks exactly like the pictures, but its not stand out in the same way as you get with other venues e.g. there is no view and the room doesn't make you feel as special as, say, La Chappelle.

It’s a nice option if you are around the Westminster area – personally I'd rather go to Roux – but I'm sure I'll return here.

A group of 4 of us ate here on Friday. The food was excellent but the service left a lot to be desired. Although staff were friendly and helpful on the dishes, we did not expect our dining experience to be rushed by having our plates taken away whilst still eating off them. We were also asked to vacate our table and move to the bar the minute we finished our meal as other people were waiting to use it. With a bill of £300 I do not expect to be treated in such a cavalier way and consequently will not be using this restaurant again.

I am urged to write this review as Cinnamon Club has always been my favourite and will be. 10 years of service does deman a lot of dedication and excellence. While gourmandising their signature dish deer my boyfriend proposed me in this restaurant yesterday . I know it's a little unusual for me to say but something i will always cherish for my life. This moment will also me be memorable because of the team's eye for details to bring a glass of bubbly when they got to know of the proposal…Moment of truth for both of us to celebrate the occassion!
Food- Excellent
Ambience——surprisingly pleasent…a room to read & eat should i say?
Service – Excellent, unobtrusive and each member has an eye for detail from greeting, explaining the dishes, maininting the smile on their face and yet very relaxed. ( I seriosly don't know what other reviewers thought or expected when they visited the restaurant). Like any other restaurant, it is also run by humans and errors are bound to happen but for me and for all my friends and family it has always been a great experience.
I go their to let my hair loose and not be overly fussy if i should be treated like a Diva!

Well done folks!! what an incredible institution. Do keep me posted on your 10 year anniversary celebration as i would like to be part of your money can't buy dinner as well.

The previous reviews on the Cinnamon Club are spot on. The food was good but not outstanding, but totally overshadowed by the service of lack of it. 5 of us sat to eat with a final bill of £500 including service which we refused to pay. Ths service was slow, extremely blatant up selling of the wine. When refilling the wine glasses on the table I don't expect the waiter to clearly overfill one glass as an attempt to push a second then third bottle to be purchased. Also when you ask for a bottle of which and the maitre'd tells you they nolonger have it available, you then have to select a more expensive bottle, I don't expect the maitre'd to say openly that your new choice is far better than your original. The final sign to me of poor customer service came when we refused to pay service, we said that the food was good but felt the service was poor with no explanation. Not once did they apologise for our dining experience or ask us for specific things that they could improve. Very disappointted and have relayed our experience to a number of friends already. It's a real shame.