After a cracking debut, this “slick” two-year-old sibling to Westminster’s famous Cinnamon Club (“hidden-away near Liverpool Street”) is losing some ground – the “very clever” cooking is still “fabulous”, but the style seems ever more “corporate”.
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Airy and spacious, but darkly-furnished, there’s something very American about this new Indian restaurant near Liverpool Street. With its unconcealed ducting, it might, say, be a downtown NYC ste...
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Press Reviews (5)
Terry Durack (20th April 2009)
16/20
The critic dislikes the trend of ‘modern Indian’ cuisine becoming “more modern and less Indian”. Indeed, some of the dishes sampled at the city offshoot of Westminster's Cinnamon Club “look like refugees from a groovy gastropub, but again, there is an integrity to the spicing, a sensitivity to cooking time and an attention to textural contrast that raises them above their Western plating and passé rice timbales.” He leaves satisfied that the “food here is as Indian as it is modern, something I had never been convinced was possible.”
Zoe Williams (30th March 2009)
7/10
Visiting the City offshoot of Westminster’s Cinnamon Club, the critic finds herself still “loving the Cinnamon concept”, which she describes as “dishes and combinations of flavours already much loved, twisted into greater and greater sophistication”.
Marina O'Loughlin (11th March 2009)
4/5 stars
Ms O’M prides herself on being ‘last with the news’. It’s a laudible approach in many ways, but it is not always evident that it gives her a different perspective from those who vulgarly rush in. Not this time, though – this is the first review of this City spin–off from the Cinnamon Club to find the food “dizzyingly good”.
Roopa Gulati (11th February 2009)
3/6 stars
“[T]here is a lot of potential”, for this City offshoot of the Cinnamon Club, says the critic… “if the owners can fine-tune their act”.
Richard Vines (10th December 2008)
2/4 stars
“[T]he new City offshoot of [Westminster’s] Cinnamon Club”, has an appearance “less alluring” than the original, says the critic. Prices are on the high side, but he concludes that “you can eat very well”.