Bonoo Hampstead restaurant in Hampstead has an amusing and amazing flower-covered exterior, plus inside walls and ceiling to match. A touch of class, elegance, romance.
What does the name mean? It is not the owner, but a word evoking an Indian chef's philosophy, an instinct for natural harmonising flavours. Their website explains. A bit abstract, and I don't know if it is Sanskrit or Hindi, so to remember the restaurant's name I think bon, which is French for good, and OO - amazingly different.
We saw a chef wearing a white hat.
This restaurant is a favourite of other members of our family because the restaurant staff are willing to discuss the spiciness of the dishes and get food made up less spicy which is what most of us want.
My favourite dish was the potato starter, Aloo tikki chaat. I also liked the Crunchy mango salad. And the pumpkin seeds and coconut naan.
They have another branch in Muswell Hill, which they told me has the same food but different decor.
They gave our small child a toy at the end of the meal.
The Surprise
I wondered whether the Kindersurprise really was from the famous company. I checked the leaflet which I had saved. I found the company website. You can buy the Kinder surprise at several UK supermarkets including Tesco.
Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
The toy is cheaper than I expected. Under two pounds. One pound forty. And a pack of three is under three pounds. So you could use them in a party goody bag, or for your own family's child, or a visitor's child, when you travel to any restaurant to entertain your child and want to keep them entertained and to stop them running around.
Address
675 Finchley Road
London NW2 2JP
Tel (020) 7794 8899
Useful Websites
kinder.com
For more details about the restaurant food and drinks see my post on my other blog
wineanddine angel.blogspot.com
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