Trishna

Press Reviews (10)

• Zoe Williams (14th April 2009)
  9/10
  
  The upward trajectory of reviews on this new(ish) Indian restaurant continues. “[T]he first room feels a bit like a corridor, and the second room feels like the back room”, but its set menu does offer, says the critic, a “varied, preordained selection of deliciousness”. “Easy and exciting, but sophisticated and eye-opening – this is what eating out should be like.”
• John Walsh (30th March 2009)
  Food 4/5 stars, Ambience 3/5 stars, Service 3/5 stars
  
  “Trishna has a fair claim to call itself the coolest Indian restaurant in London”, says the critic. “Everything is carefully cooked, subtly seasoned and beautifully presented, and its current pricing strategy [stated to be less demanding than it was on the opening, a few months ago] is excellent value for money”.
• Giles Coren (7th January 2009)
  6/10
  
  The critic manages to spend “a perfectly respectable £294.78” on a not excessively generous dinner at this new Marylebone Indian. The cooking is of good quality, but atmosphere is elusive.
• Anjali Wason (17th December 2008)
  4/6 stars
  
  Oh dear, can we have a ban on comparison-reviewing of this Marylebone newcomer? “Anyone who’s eaten at the legendary Trishna restaurant in Mumbai [please, not again] might feel a tad disappointed upon walking into its newly opened London counterpart”, notes the critic. The London restaurant is “unimaginative”, and has a “slightly aloof, wannabe-chic atmosphere”, but the food “has successfully captured the essence of the mouthwatering seafood typical of the western Indian state of Maharashtra”.
• Terry Durack (15th December 2008)
  14/20
  
  This is the first review, so far as we’re aware, not to focus on the high prices of this new Marylebone Indian. Here, the main theme is that the kitchen “has worked hard at refining the flavours” – “so hard, the result is like a too-smooth motorway without the bumps and potholes that keep you awake and alive. While the fish curry and exemplary rice show the good side of such a strategy, a succession of mild-mannered and unmemorable dishes is the flip side”.
• Richard Vines (10th December 2008)
  2/4 stars
  
  The critic visits a new Indian restaurant in Marylebone, and finds that its cuisine displays “subtle spicing makes the dish[es] distinctively Indian without overpowering the main ingredient[s]”. The prices, though, are “the stumbling block”: “it’s easy to drop more than 40 pounds a head on food”.
• AA Gill (8th December 2008)
  4/5 stars
  
  The critic visits a new Marylebone Indian where the food is “probably as fine as any in London”. It’s “better than the room”, though, and it comes in “annoying stutters and starts”. Prices are such as to make you “think twice”.
• Fay Maschler (26th November 2008)
  3/5 stars
  
  At this City offshoot of the Cinnamon Club, “European waiting staff and a tendency to slightly neuter the food in the name of modernity minimises the potential of an Indian meal” but the chef is “gifted”, and the dishes here are “more striking and exciting” than at HQ.
• Fay Maschler (26th November 2008)
  2/5 stars
  
  The original Trishna, says the critic, is “a scruffy restaurant in a rundown street in the old Bombay Fort district, is where le tout Mumbai go for Maharashtrian coastal cooking… Hearing that a branch of Trishna was opening in Marylebone didn’t make me think for one second that the Mumbai experience would be replicated, but what I hadn’t anticipated was quite how literally the owner would take the name of Blandford Street… My advice is find a cheap flight to Mumbai (Jet Airways is good) and go to Trishna there”.
• Poorna Shetti (19th November 2008)
  
  First with the news on this new out-of-Mumbai seafood establishment, thelondonpaper’s critic tells us that it’s “nothing like its subcontinent parent… I’m not sure what’s gone wrong with the London opening, which has transformed Trishna [from a something-for-everyone sort of place] into an upper-class eaterie, but I’d venture to say: everything”.