Indian Summer, Swaffham, Norfolk

You know it's a Bank Holiday in the UK when the rain teems down in an unrelenting stream all day destroying any thoughts of pleasant summer activities, which is exactly what happens today! We leave it late before wandering out for dinner, Swaffham strangely has nothing in between gourmet and takeaways, so we decide to go for an ultimately fruitless drive around the countryside, finding most places closed, before returning to Swaffham and the Indian Summer. We are starving by this point so we could eat almost anything but the fayre as it happens is good. A couple of poppadoms each takes the edge off the hunger before she goes into unchartered territory with a Chicken Bhuna and I have the Chicken Jaljala (both of medium hotness) as recommended by our waiter Alam, who provided us with excellent, friendly service. We have these mains with plain rice, mushroom rice and a paratha between us. Both dishes are decent and warming which is what we both needed on a cold, wet night in Norfolk.

Chicken jaljala