The Chilli Diaries Awards 2013

2013; another great year for The Chilli Diaries and its group of curry connoisseurs in our search for the best Indian restaurants Bromley has to offer.  Fourteen more were reviewed this year.  That makes thirty-four out of seventy-six known restaurants in the borough that have had the Chilli Diaries treatment.  Just four more years until we’ve done the lot!  Anyway, after our exhaustive search, we can now reveal who was top of the poppadams in 2013;

'THE CHILLI DIARIES INDIAN RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR'

Cinnamon Culture, Bromley

 

 

Culture Club. Manpreet Dhingra accepting the award

Cinnamon Culture is not the sort of place we originally envisaged reviewing for the Chilli Diaries.  This is the kind of fine dining that you would expect to find in central London, not little old Bromley.  But seeing as we are fortunate enough to have a restaurant of this calibre on our door step, it would be wrong to fail to acknowledge it.  

Cinnamon Culture, Sundridge Park

Wednesday 11^th September 2013

 

Something out of the ordinary for the curry club this time as we visited the renowned Cinnamon Culture on Plaistow Lane.  Many of the club are staunch old-school curry fans.  They like no-nonsense British Indian restaurant fare;  ‘onion bhajis’,  ‘chicken korma’,  ‘tikka masala’,  -  but these are all missing from the menu in favour of ‘tamarind quail’,  ‘quillon duck’  and  ‘travancore lobster’.

I was very interested to see how this more sophisticated dining experience would go down.