Most curry restaurants frequented by myself seem to host more cockroaches than customers, but Mango Tree is a world away from the usual maggot masala special. This is posh nosh and best of all, it’s half off…
We headed down to the Mango Tree at Grosvenor Place (near Buckingham Palace) for some right Royal feeding at a whopping 50% off. Stick that in your tikka! Oh and if you’re thinking the massive discount is just because the food is less than worthy then think again. Everything cooked up in this 
place is the stuff of stomach-rumbling fantasies - even the warm napkins, served to you with pincers after you’ve sauced your own lap during your scoff sesh smell divine.
It's not just all about the curry... in fact it's mostly Thai. I had Tod Mun Goong for starters, which is breaded shrimp cakes with plum sauce to the rest of us. Don’t know about you but I’m a plum sauce freak - rub the stuff on a scuffed up shoe and I’d probably eat it, but on these shrimp cakes it was even better. And you get four, so make sure you arrive with an empty stomach else you’ll struggle to make it past the starter!
For the main course I ordered Gaeng Kaiw Wang Gai (Green curry with corn fed chicken) and if I’m honest it was a leeeeedle bit too spicy for me. But then, I’m that wimp who usually opts for the chicken korma “because it’s safe”. I took a risk in a posh place and I’m glad. I scoffed the lot and actually got used to the heat.
Another fave was Gaeng Ped Ped Yang - some sort of BBQ duck concoction that came served in a pineapple. A whole pineapple! So you could scrape the fruit away to eat with the duck and stuff, mmmm. Amazing. We also liked the huge mounds of stir-fry such as Talay Pad Tow See – mixed seafood with cashew nuts and black bean sauce. Is your mouth watering now too?
Now, let me work this out… before the 50% discount my starter and main (and impeccable service by people dressed like monks, I might add) would have cost around £17, but with half off it was just £8.50. Bargain. And seriously, lunch in the Mango Tree was almost worth being put off the local ‘Tim’s taste of India’ for all eternity.
Treat your mouth for half the price at the Mango Tree
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