Mango Tree SE1

5-6 Cromwell Buildings, Red Cross Way   020 7407 0333

A couple of minutes walk from Borough Market, a very welcoming Indian restaurant, offering fairly standard fare consistently realised to a high standard; the only real downside is that it is rather noisy.

A business meeting took us – late in the day, in restaurant-reviewing terms, as it opened in the spring of 2007 – to this Indian restaurant, just round the corner from Borough Market. (Go out the Neal‘s Yard Cheeses way.) The menu is fairly standard, but quite long, so we asked the charming waiting staff to choose. They promptly brought us a succession of dishes, all of which – albeit in pretty ‘standard’ style – were very good.

For an informal business meeting, then, the venue was pretty much perfect. For schmoozing, or for an intimate tête-à-tête, it might be too hard-edged and noisy.