Views divide rather oddly on this vast and once-celebrated South Kensington Indian, which was refurbished a couple of years ago; fans find it a “bright and airy” place with “amazing” cuisine – for detractors, though, “the charm’s gone”, and food-quality with it.
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OMG, what have they done to it? Perhaps there should be some sort of law that London hotels just aren’t allowed substantially to refurbish their restaurants? The precedents in recent years really...
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Press Reviews (4)
Richard Vines (18th March 2009)
2/4 stars
The financial news service’s man finds in South Kensington a place that, perhaps to a unique extent, “faithfully replicates the experience of dining in a hotel in India, where families come together to enjoy good food in luxurious surroundings”.
Marina O'Loughlin (18th March 2009)
2/5 stars
The critic visits this grand South Kensington, whose recent revamp seems to have as its “blueprint the Heathrow branch of the Radisson Edwardian”. “From the moment we arrive and the doorman declines to open the door, to the moment the bill arrives, it's little short of surreal.” And not in a good way. “Looks like the Taj Group has squandered squillions turning a howling anachronism into, well, a wildly expensive, howling anachronism.”
Rowan Moore (21st January 2009)
4/5 stars
It’s no disrespect to the Standard’s architecture man to say that he’s just the wrong person to review a major new (re-) launch, such as of this South Kensington institution: it should have been Fay Maschler, or her effective number 2, David Sexton. What is the reader to make of the four star review of a restaurant which charges somewhere round £75 a head. We think it is inconceivable that Ms M – still less Mr S – would have made such a high award to this restaurant. What is the point of having a rating system without any consistency?
Terry Durack (25th September 2007)
12/20 points
“The word mausoleum springs to mind, but perhaps museum is kinder, housing as it does the history of modern Indian dining in this city” – the critic finds that, since it opened a quarter of a century ago, only the prices have really moved on at this grand South Kensington Indian.
Richard Vines (18th March 2009)
Marina O'Loughlin (18th March 2009)
Rowan Moore (21st January 2009)
Terry Durack (25th September 2007)
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