{"id":2522,"date":"2009-01-20T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noexpert.co.uk\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2021-10-31T20:52:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T20:52:52","slug":"the-cinnamon-club-spicing-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"The Cinnamon Club &#8211; Spicing it up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a title=\"Cinnamon Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnamonclub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cinnamon Club<\/a> is probably the most famous high end Indian restaurant in London.\u00a0 It&#8217;s located in a lovely building and has two bars, one in the Library that is cosy and a more flamboyant one in the basement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP23152.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2523\" title=\"IMGP2315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMGP23152-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP2315\" width=\"600\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Service was a bit lax initially, but it improved after we ordered. We went for a menu with matching wines, which was not very successful.\u00a0<a title=\"Benares\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=1294 \" target=\"_self\">Benares<\/a> handles matching wines to Indian cuisine much better.\u00a0The\u00a0wines at <a title=\"Benares\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=1294 \" target=\"_self\">Benares<\/a> complimented the flavours of the very subtle Indian food. The Cinnamon Clubs Wine matches were competing too much with the flavour, all of them were really heavy and full bodied. I found the whole experience exhausting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some friends who visited The Cinnamon Club a few days\u00a0before us,\u00a0had issues with not being allowed to transfer\u00a0the bar bill to the restaurant bill,\u00a0which was\u00a0inconvenient as the bar was busy and they ended\u00a0up\u00a0having to wait 15 minutes for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The restaurant has 2 AA Rosettes, which sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p>Marks out of 10<\/p>\n<p>Food\u00a0 6<\/p>\n<p>Service 5<\/p>\n<p>Ambience 6.8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Top page - Noexpert.co.uk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\">Return to top page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cinnamon Club is probably the most famous high end Indian restaurant in London.\u00a0 It&#8217;s located in a lovely building and has two bars, one in the Library that is cosy and a more flamboyant one in the basement. Service was a bit lax initially, but it improved after we ordered. We went for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/?p=2522\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cinnamon Club &#8211; Spicing it up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,767,7,8],"tags":[141,74],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-expensive","category-indian","category-london","category-uk","tag-benares","tag-the-cinnamon-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29794,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/29794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.noexpert.co.uk\/food\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}