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| Long-established Indian restaurant near Oxford Street, in the [[Category Good Curry Guide 2007|2007 Good Curry Guide]]. |
Long-established Indian restaurant near Oxford Street. |
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Inside, it's divided into two halves; as of May 2009 one of these is out of action due to refurbishment. The other is fairly narrow, with two rows of tables stretching back from the street, one with banquette seating along one wall. |
In the [[Category Good Curry Guide 2007|2007 Good Curry Guide]]. |
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[[Kake]], [[Ewan]], [[Her Welshness]], and James visited on a Wednesday evening in May 2009. We'd attempted to book a table via their website, but it didn't go through — they explained that they're revamping the website at the moment, and that our lack of booking was no problem. We got a nice table by the window. Poppadoms and chutneys <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/3511900906/ photo]</small> were brought moments after we sat down (these are not optional, and are charged at £1.50/head; this is mentioned on the final page of the menu). They were fine. The lime pickle was very limey but not as hot as it usually is. We ended up going for individually-plated starters. [[Her Welshness]]' portion of onion bhajis turned out to be pretty huge. James and [[Ewan]] seemed pleased with their bhel poori. [[Kake]] ordered the tomato shorba (soup) partly out of curiosity — I visited Gaylord several years ago before I started going to restaurants quite so regularly, and found the tomato shorba pretty amazing. I was less amazed this time, but it was still pretty good, fresh-tasting and well-flavoured, with black pepper prominent among the spices used; alas, it was missing the advertised "savoury crispies" though. For mains, [[Her Welshness]] chose the minced chicken kebabs <small>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/kake_pugh/3511101853/ photo]</small>; these were very good, well-flavoured and studded with chopped peppers and herbs. James had some form of lamb curry. [[Kake]] and [[Ewan]] shared a couple of vegetarian dishes; baingan Hyderabad se (sliced aubergine with green chillies) and channa Peshwari (chickpeas) were both well-textured and well-flavoured, with both aubergines and chickpeas cooked to a pleasing softness. We were also persuaded to order a dish of dal makhani for the table, since our waiter was concerned that none of our dishes had much sauce; we were glad we did, since it was also tasty, though it did mean we ended up with too much food. Service was traditional but friendly, with waiters in dark suits and a maitre d' who introduced himself at the beginning of the meal. Hot towels were brought when we finished eating; unfortunately they smelled a bit mouldy. Our final bill was £35/head including two bottles of wine between the four of us and an auto-added 15% tip. Accessibility: Toilets are down a flight of stairs. |
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<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Kake]], [[Ewan]], [[Her Welshness]], and James, 6 May 2009.</div> |
Long-established Indian restaurant near Oxford Street.
In the 2007 Good Curry Guide.
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