A Jewel In The Coastal Crown

Frances Hopewell-Smith dines out at Sea Spice, Aldeburgh, and finds an authentic taste of India on the Suffolk coast.

ANOTHER night out with a friend. I considered calling her my companion, but that conjures up images of a dull woman from the 1950s who either a) ends up with the troubled hero (who finds salvation and true love through her simple goodness), or b) lives a double life as a scheming vamp who kills her defenceless employer in an act of complicated historic revenge. Hence the less evocative term ‘friend’. Although ‘friend’ has its own other meanings. But enough digression.