Delicious Sunday Buffet.
The sign said £6.95 for vegetarian or £7.95 for a meat buffet with 14 dishes. We were walking past Broomfield Park looking for a place for lunch and were naturally drawn in.
We were greeted by a member of staff, turned out to be the owner, and were sat at next to a fountain with goldfish after requesting better seats. The restaurant is a bit dated and has a shrine to cricket with a signed picture of Sanath Jayasuriya, former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team at the bar. The ambience was peaceful and helped by the traditional Indian music with no vocals. It reminded me of the cinema adverts they had for local tandooris in the 1990s.
We were eager to eat and quickly started in the 14 dishes which included a tandoori chicken, a korma chicken, a lamb vindaloo that was slightly spicy, a prawn curry that tasted fresh and was delicious, some Saag vegetarian dishes with cabbage, Spanish and potato, a curry made from sweet corn which was unusually good, a very tasty narn which was fresh and slightly sweet like peshwari, rice, onion baji and fried aubergine. We tried each and every dish and found them all to be very tasty. In general most are creamy and not oily at all and my mouth waters thinking about the food. Those who want very spicy food will be very disappointed as this is not spicy at all. I was a bit shocked to read a previous review that it had no flavour because every dish tasted good.
The staff kept refilling the dishes regularly and were open and friendly. They were dressed down which was good as it just made you feel relaxed.
It's odd that people don't write more about this place. It was half full when we went with people coming in to order takeaway as well. It deserves more to be said and I look forward to my next Sunday Indian lunch here. read more