We had one of the best Indian meals ever at Aktar Islam’s restaurant Opheem in Birmingham back in 2018 – another one of our lucky finds, a good year before he picked up his first Michelin star. Strange to read reviews from only eight years back and see £38 as the price for three courses …
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Review: Fatt Pundit, Covent Garden
We went to Fatt Pundit after a visit to the Hunterian Museum, which may have been a bad decision as the epic collection of things pickled in jars, strangely contorted skeletons and surgical instruments in this museum can leave you feeling a little… queasy… after a while. Not many museums can boast such an impressive …
Review: Cinnamon Bazaar, Covent Garden
Can I write a fair review here? We met up at Cinnamon Bazaar with friends, six of us for a sociable dinner a few weeks before Christmas (though close enough for all the decorations to be up in the streets and the festive menus to be popping up in the restaurants). So perhaps my mind …
Review: Koyal, Surbiton
Koyal is the third branch of the Dastaan empire. Unlike their Leeds restaurant, this time they’ve opened just a couple of miles up the road in Surbiton. It should make a big difference though: Dastaan is on a suburban shopping parade miles from the nearest train station, meaning anyone from central London has quite the …
Review: Sindhu, Marlow
A rambling old Victorian pub-hotel on the banks of the Thames at Marlow called “The Compleat Angler” is an odd venue for modern Indian cooking, but that’s where Sindhu is – one of Atul Kolchar’s growing crop of restaurants in the Thames Valley. We came for a mid-week lunch and we decided on the lunch …