Cinnamon Soho

Gorgeous venue for group bookings and must say very impressive backdrop for weddings. I had been there last year to attend a friends wedding coupled with a personal visit recently. It never fails to impress and very popular among both Britishers and Indian fraternity. I wonder how they mange to please people with various expectations. One of the interesting aspect was to see how manage the crowd in the Bar as it does get a bit busier and people after few pints forget they are humans. I was very impressed with their Indian Duty Manager's approach towards a city broker. My only suggestion to them would be to also open on Saturday for lunch time and perhaps change the furniture in the front area. Other than that perfect and stylish setting and "Best Indian food" in London atleast in east. www.cinnamonsoho.com

Brilliant Indian outpost in the westend of theatre district. Been here a few times after visiting its sister restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen for business lunches. Went there for Sunday brunch which seemed quite relaxed and perfect after carrying the heavy shopping bags for my partner. Guess it's an oasis behind the busy Regent street. Liked the Holi cocktail they were serving along with the spiced scotch eggs. Very creative and reasonably priced!

Brilliant Indian outpost in the westend of theatre district. Been here a few times after visiting its sister restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen for business lunches. Went there for Sunday brunch which seemed quite relaxed and perfect after carrying the heavy shopping bags for my partner. Guess it's an oasis behind the busy Regent street. Liked the Holi cocktail they were serving along with the spiced scotch eggs. Very creative and reasonably priced!

Brilliant Indian outpost in the westend of theatre district. Been here a few times after visiting its sister restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen for business lunches. Went there for Sunday brunch which seemed quite relaxed and perfect after carrying the heavy shopping bags for my partner. Guess it's an oasis behind the busy Regent street. Liked the Holi cocktail they were serving along with the spiced scotch eggs. Very creative and reasonably priced!

Brilliant Indian outpost in the westend of theatre district. Been here a few times after visiting its sister restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen for business lunches. Went there for Sunday brunch which seemed quite relaxed and perfect after carrying the heavy shopping bags for my partner. Guess it's an oasis behind the busy Regent street. Liked the Holi cocktail they were serving along with the spiced scotch eggs. Very creative and reasonably priced!

Brilliant Indian outpost in the westend of theatre district. Been here a few times after visiting its sister restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen for business lunches. Went there for Sunday brunch which seemed quite relaxed and perfect after carrying the heavy shopping bags for my partner. Guess it's an oasis behind the busy Regent street. Liked the Holi cocktail they were serving along with the spiced scotch eggs. Very creative and reasonably priced!

Magnificent Indian restaurant famous for it's Bheja fry. I tried them at Taste of London as they had won the award for this best dish. At first I wasn't very sure if I can really try the Lamb brains but it just melted in my mouth. The other best dishes on the menu were kachori fritters, burnt chilli chicken and the carrot halwa roll! I still have taste in my mouth and can travel to London just to try these dishes time and time again.

We tried it today and loved the food and presentation. Nice atmosphere and not too expensive. We ordered the quick lunch (set meal) and it arrived promptly and full of flavours.

Having been a fan of Westminster’s Cinnamon Club, I decided to try Cinnamon Soho for Friday lunch, hoping to get the weekend off to a good start. There were three options: a rapid lunch with the curry of the day for £7.50; a two-course lunch for £15 (three for £18); and the regular a’ la carte. Having booked in advance, I was shown to a great table for four next to the bar but with lots of space around us and which allowed us to sit adjacent to each other. Some of the smaller tables looked a bit nipped in and the downstairs bar may be fine for an intimate evening dinner, but looked too dark and stuffy for lunch on an unseasonably sunny October day. The service was professional, friendly but not in our face and didn’t disrupt conversation. As this is the ‘cheekier’, trendier and newest addition to the Cinnamon family, staff were informally dressed with black Cinnamon branded aprons over their normal clothes. “I thought it would be busier than this” said my guest when he arrived in the virtually empty restaurant promptly at 12.30pm. By the time we left 90 minutes later, the place was packed and understandably so. We opted for the two course menu and chose the burnt chilli chicken and sweet potato cakes. Both were well presented and accompanied by a dollop of spicy green sauce but the chicken won the day with succulent chunks of meat cooked with onions and coloured peppers in deliciously dark, sticky coating. The potato cakes for me, could have been a little spicier. We checked out the Keralan fish pie with our waitress but I was put off by the addition of ‘squids’ in the pie and the pastry topping didn’t appeal to my guest. We both plumped for the tilapia which was served with a timbale of white rice and florets of al dente broccoli. The two decently sized fillets of fish were coated with seasoning and free from bone and skin with yet more green sauce. We opted for a side order of a plain naan although it wasn’t really necessary. We lingered over coffee which allowed us to see the rapid lunch being served to the next door table of suits. The rectangular wicker baskets contained lots of small dishes and looked terrific value if you were in a rush and wanted something relatively simple. The wine list started at £16 and our bottle of Hungarian Pinot Grigio “single vineyard” Hilltop at £19 was fine. So, how did it compare with the older, grander atmosphere of the Cinnamon Club? It’s smaller and less formal with its table settings but the food is just as good and being just off Regent Street, it would make an ideal lunch-time respite from your forthcoming Christmas shopping. My only suggestion: get the waitress out of her blue jeans.

7 of us went for dinner last night and we found the meal to be very average. It took around 45 minutes to get our dishes and the restaurant was not very busy. The lamb dish that three of us ordered was simply a large bowl of rice with 5-6 pieces of lamb in it and several pieces of lamb were very fatty and not tender. We expected a much better dish considering the time we waited. The restaurant doesn't have any character, particularly compared to the Westminster branch. For £30 per head including wine it wasn't expensive but that was for one course and for that sort of money you can get much better Indian food in London. Very disappointed.