New Year Food Fetishes with 50% Off Meals at award winning Mint Leaf Restaurant & Bar   With the festive period long embedded into the memory banks of food and cocktail aficionados alike, Mint Leaf Restaurant & Bar welcomes diners into the New Year with their award winning modern Indian cuisine and guarantees to take food revellers through an ever exotic gastronomic tour of India in 2008. Who said the fun has to stop once the clock strikes 12.00am on 1st January 2008? This January Mint Leaf Restaurant & Bar will treat diners to half price meals on their A La Carte Menu, ideal for when purse strings are tight post the Christmas indulgences. Diners will be spoilt for choice from the sumptuous A La Carte Menu, created by newly appointed Head Chef Ajay Chopra, headhunted from Mumbai's leading 5-star hotel, the JW Marriott, where he continually entertained a plethora of international celebrities and Bollywood stars. Starter dishes include: Saunfiya Paneer Tikka (Paneer stuffed with mint and raisin farce, marinated in fennel and turmeric yoghurt, radicchio and crisp bean salad; Lehsuni Jhinga Sunehri (Tandoor grilled jumbo prawns marinated with cumin, roast garlic and chilli yoghurt, served with pineapple chutney); and Tandoori Bateyr (Boneless jumbo quail steeped overnight in home ground mustard, ginger and piquant chillies, served on curly endive salad). Mint Leaf main dishes include: Makai Khumb Do Pyaaz (Baby corn and oyster mushrooms tossed with scallions, cumin and crushed coriander); Methi Machli Curry (Fillet of wild sea bass poached in a fenugreek scented curry); and Murgh Pista Korma (Chicken breast stuffed with pistachios and mushrooms, poached in a yoghurt and almond curry). And for those who desire a taste for the decadent, Mint Leaf desserts include: Chocolate Parfait, Passion Fruit Mousse or the Dessert Platter. In addition, Mint Leaf offer Set and Vegetarian Menus, catering to individual palates. A 140-cover restaurant, Mint Leaf is a name that has become synonymous with both the highest calibre of modern Indian cuisine, as well as the most sumptuous signature cocktails, rendering the fashionable venue the perfect setting for world class drinking, dining, or a combination of both.   Mint Leaf continues to be a popular hang out for London's glitterati, and features a high celebrity count among its guest list that includes Kate Winslet, Keira Knightley, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Kevin Spacey, Mickey Rourke, Kelly Osborne, Kim Cattrall, Brooke Shields, Kelly Brooks and Matthew Perry. top