I called on a charity night, so I guess the number of customers was unusual: it was very busy on a mid-week night. Even so it was obvious that a lot of the customers are regulars, which is a good sign.
The menu seems a little more diverse than your average Indian, with starters (£3-6) like Asian BBQ: marinated lamb chops, chicken tikka, shish kebab and duck tikka; Monk fish marinated in spices and cooked with spring onions & peppers garnished with tomatoes & coriander; Monk fish Goan style in a sweet and hot sauce in coriander, herbs & green chillies; Coley dish marinated in special spices & buttered. Mains (£7-12 plus rice) include Munger Tanger: chargrilled chicken cooked in a hot sweet and sour, combined with chunks of onion and green peppers , lightly stir fried in a tamarind and mango sauce; South Indian Mugh Balti: Tandoori chicken off the bone with minced lamb medium Balti spices; Kashmir your choice of meat spiced with peaches and bananas.
I nibbled on poppadums whilst I was choosing from the menu which came with a better than average selection of 6 onions and chutney dishes. I followed this with Lamb Chaat starter (barbequed in clay oven then spiced in exotic Chaat Massalla sauce) which was nice, and then Naga Naga Lamb (succulent lamb or chicken pieces cooked with special Naga chilli pickle, crushed garlic, cumin seeds & ground mild spices which was quite hot and I ate with a naan.
The food was excellent and quite spicy. The service was friendly but a little slow: but given how busy the place was on this Charity night I think that was understandable.
The restaurant is on the first floor above some shops, but there is a phone number saying if you need assistance with access to call a phone number. The only parking is street parking, but that isn't usually a big problem in the evenings. Storngly recommended. read more
