While we seem to have 2 (sometimes as many as 5) sushi restaurants in every town in Dutchess County, we’ve been really lacking on good Indian restaurants. Our favorite up until this week was Tanjore down in Fishkill. But this week we have a new winner.

Cinnamon is the name of the nearly reopened Indian restaurant in Rhinebeck. It’s actually a little south of town, in the location where we’ve seen a couple of different Indian places over the last decade. We hit it up Thursday night as Susan wanted to scout it for possible future catering. I decided to go vindaloo, which I don’t do that often any more, as my spice tolerance isn’t quite what it used to be. But it is a pretty good measure of spiciness.

Wow. The vindaloo was spot on, and definitely good and spicy. Everything we had there was great. I’m already excited to go back there for one of their buffets. If you like Indian, and live in the mid hudson valley, please go there. We need to keep good Indian places around like this one.