Bonoo Indian Restaurant in Hampstead, Surprising Decor and Surprises For Adults & Children

 

Bonoo Indian Restaurant, flower-filled frontage. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

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

www.bonoo.co.uk

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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Dates to note in April 2022 - Easter and Passover. Ukraine's Egg Museum is off my travel ist. Where else?

Tesco in the UK already has Kinder surprise eggs and other eggs on sale in the supermarket and online.

I fancy the marzipan eggs made in the Philippines.

Photo in Wikipedi from Metamorphosed Fossil - Own work

Unfortunately the Egg Museum in Ukraine at Pysanka looks like it will be off my travel list. I would hope that hostilities and within a month, but we are already looking at going elsewhere in May I read that people in the USA who have no intention of travelling to Ukraine are booking Air b and b as a way of helping Ukrainians who will have lost business. That way the donors are giving money directly to people in the country who have businesses, even down to the city..

Egg Museum, Pyanka, Ukraine. Photo from Wikipedia.

Vegreville in Alberta, Canada, featured a giant egg.

If you are booking flights, they may be booked immediately before and after national and international holidays. 

British Mother's Day is March 27th. It is also the day when British summer time begins. (Daylight saving time.)

Easter in 2022

Sunday 17th April is Easter Sunday.

Monday April 18th is Easter Monday. 

April 23 in England is St George's Day.

Easter in Cyprus Sunday April 24th is Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday is April 26th. This festival is more important to them than Xmas and you may find as a traveller that museums are shut and other changes. (See previous post about Cyprus.)>

Passover starts Friday April 15th which is a Friday, so the shabbat meal is the same time as the Seder night. Many people celebrate a second night of Passover which will be April 16th, Saturday.

Passover ends April 23rd.

October 22nd is Diwali in Singapore - probably same date in London - must check.)