Cinnamon is now closed

If like us you are a habitué at Indian restaurants in Manhattan, it’s hard to ignore the Curry Hill stretch on Lexington Avenue in NYC.

You can’t walk two steps in the neighborhood without tripping over an Indian restaurant – some good, some ugly and some horribly ugly.

So off we headed to NYC.

Shadowed by the watchful eyes of a dark-skinned Indian thug with simian features and porcine eyes, hired presumably by a no-good merdivorous pimp, we dined yesterday at Cinnamon, a newly opened Indian restaurant at 106 Lexington Ave (between 27th St and 28th St) in New York City.

Boy, did we strike gold with Cinnamon NYC.

Folks, for $9.95 the lunch buffet at Cinnamon is a steal. Not in the Copper Chimney league (you get a glass of wine too for the same price at Copper Chimney) but good nevertheless.

There was a slight drizzle in the air and the crowds had all gathered outside Saravana Bhavan, the South Indian vegetarian restaurant a block down the road. So Cinnamon was quiet with only one table occupied as we made our way inside.

Manna for Carnivore Desis
While there were a few vegetarian dishes on the buffet table, the place is more a manna for meat-lovers on the prowl for a decent Indian meal on the cheap.

From the small cubes of the Chicken 65 appetizer to the spicy-but-not-obscenely-spicy Chennai Chicken that had us returning for a second helping to the tangy Gobi Manchurian and flavorful Chicken Tikka Masala, Cinnamon is that rare Indian restaurant on the Lexington Ave strip in Murray Hill with a chef who knows his way around the kitchen.

Thank God. We are so tired of eating bad Indian food.

Oh, we almost forgot to tell you about the second appetizer – minced chicken and lamb patties.

Who needs crack cocaine with such juicy, heavenly patties! Continue reading »