Bengal Spice Restaurant / Cafe National

Bengal Spice

 
Description: Indian restaurant. 38-40 St Benedict's street, Norwich, NR2 4AQ tel = 01603 613444.

Newest Review: ... than its flock-wallpaper-and-booth-seating cousins, the Bengal Spice features wood panelling which not only gives a warm, cosy atmosphere in the lamplight, but also points to the building's previous incarnation as a bank. The owners appear to have foregone the idea of installing those irritating cramped, fixed seats so often found in Indian restaurants, and instead plumped for normal ... more

 ... tables and chairs - thus allowing you to plump for the full meal without fear of getting stuck. Sadly, this bucking of tradition didn't extend to the fake plants (they're everywhere), but there is a nice individual touch in that local art is includ...more

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Premium Review Bank on the Bengal Spice (721 words)
by ermintrude - written on 31/05/01 (Very useful, 344 readings)
Rating:

For a not-very-cosmopolitan city, Norwich sure has a lot of Indian restaurants. (This is partially balanced out by there being a dearth of Chinese restaurants, I suppose.) The Bengal Spice just happens to be one of the better ones, and as such has become the regular haunt of me and my student friends. There you go. Students like it. What more of a recommendation could you ask for? You want more? Damn, thought I could get away with a 75-word review :) Okay, I think I may have just painted an unfair picture - the Bengal Spice is not an exclusively studenty hangout. It's not involved in the age-old "curry wars" of Norwich (between ...

 

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