At its best, this “opulent” city-centre spot offers a “refreshing” take on Indian food and a “lovely” experience overall; performance varies though – “we went after they’d just finished filming for a show which, on our experience, should have been called Michel Roux’s Abominable Service!”
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This “elegant” and “palatial” Indian is the baby of Raj Rana, a young Birmingham jeweller/property developer. The critic notes a worrying formula: “Dramatically ornate decor to the point of deflecting attention from food + twentysomething owner with no experience of difficult industry = voluntary liquidation within nine months.” This place seems to have escaped such a fate, though, having won best curry status in the Cobra Good Curry Awards. And “no wonder, because Rana has underpinned his grandiose ambitions with the hiring, from a swish Delhi hotel, of a truly outstanding chef called Amardeep Saka”. As a result, the critic and his guest “raved about almost everything”.
Matthew Norman (31st July 2007)
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