Photos from Scott’s 30th birthday
On 28th June 2008, we marked my mate Scott’s eighteenth birthday (his 12th eighteenth birthday in a row, fact fans) with a curry at the surpassingly excellent The Cinnamon Tree. I heartly recommend their mixed shashlik, which was very lovely indeed. However you should be cautious as to their green chilli chicken…
…which Toby ordered. The light was quite dim in the restaurant and the colours are all out of whack on this photograph; in person, the curry was much greener in colour than the brownish you see here. It was green because of a very simple reason — it was approximately 75% green chillis, with a further 20% consisting of pureed green chillis. These were the sort of thin, long chillis you see used in a lot of Indian cooking, like the ones in this picture, and they were pretty potent. I have no idea how he ate any of this, and yet he very nearly finished it, much to our collective surprise. Bravo!
It caused me much pain during the night. By the morning I was a shell of my former self, with a blowing exhaust. *wince*
Thank you for coming along chaps, it was ace. And thanks to the Cinnamon Tree with their inspired roullette-esque method of grading their curried for entertaining me with Toby’s pain!
Funnily enough, one of my new bosses lives just around the corner from The Cinnamon Tree, and eats there pretty often (as indeed would I if I lived near it). He was even in there less than twelve hours after we were, partaking of the £10 Sunday buffet lunch. When I told him Toby had the green chilli chicken, he winced, and said “they make ‘em hot there”. So clearly it wasn’t just Screeny being deluded and/or a wuss; they really do have that reputation.