A fat drunk rants and reviews.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Hot Chilli, Tavistock Place

from the archive

Food: 7.5/10 Service: 7.5/10 Solo dinner ambience: 7/10

Hors d'oeuvres: Poppadoms
  • Bog standard crispy things
  • OK lime pickle (why do so few curry shops offer chilli pickle?)
  • Mango chutney a bit unusual - smoother texture, very glossy, looked almost slightly pink - almost like sweet and sour sauce. Taste still the same as usual if not quite as oversweet as some.
  • Yoghurt thing green not yellow
  • Onion thing seemed OK on first glance but closer inspection revealed that it still contained small bits of cucumber
Starter: Mixed kebab thing
  • Amazingly large portion for 3.50 GBP
  • Two big bits of each of chicken and lamb tikka - nicely spicy, tender, well cooked without becoming dry. Top marks.
  • Sheekh kebab a bit dry
  • Shami kebab seemed to be the same stuff as the sheekh which is lame. It should have lentils and a bunch of extra coriander IMO
  • Came on a sizzly dish with nice crispy/caramelised onions

Main course: Lamb dhansak, plain rice
  • Dhansak OK - neither curry nor meat were fatty. Pokey enough to get the sweat glands going. Could have done with a wedge of lemon though
  • Rice poor - overcooked to the point that you could hardly tell it was basmati

Bevvy: Pint of Kingfisher - cold, not flat or off, hard to go wrong really. Nothing much interesting on the menu, booze-wise.

Have been back once since — about the same the second time. Well worthy a visit.

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