Sagar

06-03-2009
Andy Hayler  0 

Poppadoms were fine, served with four chutneys that may even have been made in the kitchen: an apple chutney was unusual and enjoyable, in addition to the usual mango and mint chutneys. My starter of bhel poori was very dry, and badly needed something like a tamarind chutney to go with it (0/10).

Better was aloo papri chat, rather heavy on the yoghurt and lacking spice, but pleasant enough (1/10). A vegetable samosa had pleasant filling but somewhat soggy batter (1/10). Utthappam (Indian pizza) was rather doughy in texture, and needed more chilli bite from its topping in my view (1/10). I enjoyed a masala dosa, whose outside crisp could arguable have been crisper, but still had a nice potato filling (1/10). Channa masala had tender enough chickpeas but the sauce with it lacked spice and was uninteresting (1/10). Generally I found the spicing over-restrained.

The best dishes were a light and fluffy bhatura bread (2/10), arriving puffed up at the table (usually this a breakfast dish in India, as indeed is a dosa, but nonetheless enjoyable for that) and a superb shrikand dessert. The shrikand tasted distinctly of saffron without being overwhelmed by it, as can easily happen, while the texture was enjoyably runnier than many; this was really classy, a difficult dessert to make, and in a different league to the rest of the meal (5/10).

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