WINE & DINE WITH ANGELA LANSBURY

  Bonoo Indian Restaurant, flower-filled frontage. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. Bonoo Hampstead restaurant, in the Hampstead area of Northwest London, 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 flat ...

  Suruchi Indian restaurant, entrance. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.   Suruchi elegant decor with white tableclothes. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Trevor Sharot, of Grapedeal, checking the label of a wine bottle. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. Suruchi Indian Restaurant has a good deal on wine and food on Tuesdays. Bring your own wine, no corkage, is available every day. Tuesdays you have the added bonus of their meal deal for just under twenty pounds sterling per person you can choose a starter, main course, side dish of vegetables, and rice or Indian bread. I chose a Peshwari naan, a flat bread with a filling.  Our Wines Three of us had brought a bottle of wine each, picked to match Indian food. One person provided a cheet for tasting notes (as used at the Central London Wine Society.  My husband Trevor had chosen a wine for Indian food. He said,"An off-dry white wine such as Riesling and/or a Spatlese or AAuslese, to clear the mouth of spice and oil with ...