Live, from Peoria, Illinois, it’s Friday Night, starring this week’s host, Bay Leaf Indian Restaurant And Bar and featuring special guest stars, Amber, Joe (the Birthday Boy!), Shaun and a server who’s name I forgot to write down.
Now, please welcome from beautiful downtown Peoria, this week’s host, Bay Leaf Indian Restaurant And Bar!
September is the Bohannan Birthday Month! This month houses both my Bohannan friends, Amber and Joe’s birthdays!
Tonight is Joe’s Birthday, so I ordered up a cake from LeBakery to surprise him with as an after dinner dessert treat!
There’s the owner of LeBakery, Kevin, holding the birthday cake, which will be revealed at the end of the post! Keep on scrolling to see it in all its lit-up glory!
Here we are at tonight’s dinner destination, the Bay Leaf Indian Restaurant And Bar. It’s located here in the Maxam Building on Washington Street in downtown Peoria.
You just go in the front doors, walk down the hallway and baboom, here we are at Bay Leaf Indian restaurant And Bar!
Let’s go in and start this Friday night dinner!
The dining room is elevated and you have to walk up these stairs to get there.
I think I see our dinner party inside!
Here’s this week’s dinner guests in all their glory, from left: Amber, Joe the Birthday Boy and Shaun!
Great to see all of them and they’re all looking fantastic! We can officially let this birthday dinner begin!
Here’s everyone deciding on what we should have for an appetizer.
And like, magic, here’s our pretty and friendly server (who’s name I forgot to write down) delivering our aforementioned appetizers. Talk about quick service!
Here’s the two appetizers that we started the meal off with: Samosa Chat and Paneer Manchurian. They were a delightful and tasty start to this fun birthday dinner!
After the appetizers I got up to take a few photos inside the restaurant.
Tables line the front floor to ceiling window of the dining room which has a nice view of Washington Street in downtown Peoria.
There’s a bar area in the front of the dining room and as you can see, it’s very well stocked.
The upstairs area is not being used right now, but it is open and I went up to get a couple of aerial shots of the dining room.
Here’s the two birds-eye-view shots I took of the impressive dining room at Bay Leaf.
Meanwhile, back at our table as I returned to the ground floor…
Our main courses have arrived and they are: Chicken Chettinad, Lamb Rogan Josh, Navratan Korma and Andrah Chicken Curry.
The food here is unbelievable and such a tasty treat!
We also got an order of the garlic and cheese Naan bread and they were absolutely delicious and the perfect compliment to our wonderful Indian dinners.
There’s Amber, Joe and Shaun enjoying their Indian dinners at Bay Leaf.
And here’s Joe’s birthday cake that we picked up all the way back in the first photo of this post!
Amber and Joe posed in front of the lit-up cake and then…
Joe huffed and puffed and blew the candles out!
Happy Birthday, Joe! Have a fantastic 44th year on this planet!
Thanks to everyone at Bay Leaf Indian Restaurant And Bar for a wonderful Friday night dinner and thanks to Amber, Joe and Shaun for joining me for this fun and celebratory birthday dinner in downtown Peoria!
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Bay Leaf Indian Restaurant And Bar
316 SW Washington Street
Peoria
309-670-0936
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