Thanks for sharing all your favorites. Great feedback from all of you.

Check out Tamarind. It's a good one.

Benares. Great menu. Innovative. A Michelin star. Not that expensive if you use one of the online offers on Bookatable or Opentable. Failing that Brick Lane has a ton of cheaper eats and is fun in a kitsch sort of way - big screens up in some of the restaurants showing Bollywood films, cocktails with an indian twist (ie lots of lemongrass and ginger in evidence).

The last post (Mar 1, if it is removed) is straight out of a <i>Time Out London</i> review.
http://www.timeout.com/london/restau...nnamon-kitchen