It's a wonderfully evocative name is Mint Leaf Restaurant. It conjures up images of somewhere cool, relaxing, and exotically delicious. Where one might head to when there are friends to be impressed, cocktails to be sipped and good times to be had for an evening. It sounds like a place where fresh and stylish food is served, while cool tunes are played and the beautiful people sit around staring into space while practising their pretension...well, scratch that last part and you've got the Mint Leaf Restaurant.

Located in Suffolk Place at London's Haymarket in the cultural and commercial heart of the city, the Mint Leaf Restaurant is a sumptuously furnished and effortlessly cool establishment that is open from noon until 3pm for lunch and again at 5.30pm to 11pm for dinner every weekday andd from 5.30pm until 11pm on the weekend, while the bar and lounge area stays open until 1am for diners to wind down in after polishing off their exquisite meal. Popular with local office workers and passing tourists, the lounge is busy all week-long, acting as a great location for a working lunch, after work drinks, romantic meals and lively social get togethers.

The a la carte menu at the Mint Leaf Restaurant is highly impressive and wonderfully diverse, with a range of Indian and pan-Asian dishes offered to diners, all created using the finest ingredients and cooked in the lightest, most aromatic manner possible. All meat is halal, and some of the signature dishes worth noting include the monkfish tails, the southern spice oysters, rock lobster tails, grilled scallops, roasted quail, spiced free range chicken, baby lamb shanks, spinach and date parcels, potato and chestnut cakes, and a variety of extensive platters, including seafood and vegetarian options.