Ginger Chicken Ginger Chicken

Tender chicken pieces cooked with aromatic ginger and spices, creating a flavorful and savory dish.

Cinnamon Tree

Cinnamon Tree

Wood Road, Ellistown, North West Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Wine • Fish • Indian • Coffee


"Start with the negative, it was the first date night in over a year for the wife and I and as we regularly have cinnamon tree as a takeaway but never actually eaten at the restaurant, we decided cinnamon tree was the restaurant of choice for the evening. We are relatively new to the area and was a little surprised to see that the building looked run down and the sign only spelling out cinnamon r on the side. However, stepping inside took the dread away. The decor is minimal but stylish and inviting. Now we arrived when the restaurant had only just opened with a last minute booking, when we arrived there was only 2 people in the entire restaurant so we was astonished that the waiters decided to seat us right next to the pair of girls. Personally if I can see that a couple are coming for a meal I would seat them in a more private area unless there was no option, however there was plenty of option as the restaurant was empty. The next downside was the drinks, the wife had a bacardi and coke and I, a pint of Cobra. The beer was almost ambient temperature and the wife's bacardi tasted slightly off as in the coke was flat and bacardi tasted like it had been sat there a while. Anyway, looking past these issues we felt uneasy as we could hear the girls conversation and felt we could not relax and have our own conversation as they would obviously hear ours. Not a date night feel at all. The food was amazing though, thoroughly enjoyed it, I ate until I was in agony and couldn't fit any more in, I was determined to complete everything even my wife's portion as she felt too uncomfortable to eat having practically been sat on the same table as the only other people in the restaurant. We will return for a date night and ask to be seated in a more private location if the restaurant is quieter, the food is delicious and excellent value for money. We will also continue to get takeaways from this establishment as it is our favourite Indian restaurant in our area by far. Definitely recommend a visit here, but ask for a more private table if you are on date night!"

Pret A Manger

Pret A Manger

Manchester Airport, T1, Landside, Ringway, United Kingdom

Kebab • Cafés • Coffee • Mexican


"So there ya go, I came across this wonderful Pret within Manchester's gleaming, clean and tidy airport soon after a review of rip off Starbucks at Belfast's scruffy, poorly maintained, Belfast International Airport; imagine this dump is our offer of an international airport. The differences between these places is stark, Prets food is fresh made daily and very good indeed, their coffee is ace, the staff were friendly and helpful, the place was clean and it was tidied twice in the 40 minutes we were there. Social distancing was properly observed and contact details were politely requested as we were sitting in. Best of all for customers we weren't ripped off. Once Pret sets up in Norn Iron Starbucks are likely to lose my loyalty. For £13.98 total I had a crayfish avocado salad with a super flat white. They provide little sachets of blooming marvellous Tabasco sauce; my wife indulged in a cappuccino with a generously filled French style baguette with unsmoked bacon, egg, onion and salad. The bacon had much more bacon than bacon fat. The baguette was crispy and about 10 long. Pret food is handmade in their shop kitchens throughout the day and anything they don't sell, goes to charity. Their coffee is 100% organic and they have a Coffee Fund to support the next generation of farmers. Their teas, milks and milk alternatives are also organic. They have produced their first Environment, Social and Governance report that sits on their website. They say that they are committed to publishing future reports to track sustainability progress over the years to come. They have had a zero landfill policy for all their managed UK shops since 2012 and customers have been able to recycle bottles and cans in shops since 2007. So while I can't find if their organic coffee is shade grown and bird friendly and bird friendly is best it's still 3 green stars. The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in the USA has developed the only 100% Organic and Shade Grown coffee certification in the world called Bird Friendly Certification with the noble aim that every bean is produced organically and under high-quality shade, ensuring tropical agroforests are preserved and migratory birds find a healthy haven when they travel from northern climes to those faraway farms producing the beans who can't support them? With widespread clear cutting for sun coffee plantations, it's imperative to protect the tropical forest that remains and rehabilitate degraded ecosystems for our kids and grandkids. It's also hard to find if they pay staff living wages so maybe they do and they'll report on this soon or maybe they don't and will rationalise why not."