16-02-13
My family and I have gone to Tasmania for ten days. We found an Air BnB house in the Battery Point district and decided to go to the nearest restaurant and Magic Curries showed up so we took the plunge.
It seemed like a fairly nice place, a bit dim but clean and well presented.
There was complimentary poppadums and mint yoghurt to start with but my uncle and sister commented on the condiment being too sweet which set off alarm bells but the poppadums were really nice and crunchy so we decided to reserve judgement until the mains arrived.
All up, we ordered four dishes for five people.
The palak paneer was okay, fairly plain and just didn't have zest. We also ordered some vegetable curry which was incredibly generic. The chicken vindaloo (and I love a true vindaloo) was plain, hot and quite salty. A real vindaloo is supposed to be very hot but when you taste one that is properly made you just know what I'm talking about. This one just didn't have the flavour burst where you can identify every single spice. Great this wasn't. The sagh gosht was interesting but again, plain.
The roti very north Indian, not the stretched flaky and slightly sweet roti I love.
We had two bottles of 42 degree south pinot noir which was strangely overpriced at $25 a bottle, especially considering when you can get it in Sydney in restaurants for about $17 and it comes from Tasmania! If anyone can explain the logic of that to me, please do.
Final bill: $152.40 which was way too much even if you put aside the $50 for wine for food that you could easily have gotten at the local Indian buffet at a shopping mall.
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