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APPETISERS

Pappadums and Khakara basket with pickle and relish £3.50 (for two)

Dahi Kachori with Sprouted Beans £4.00
Short crust pastry filled with tangy spices, served with fresh yoghurt, tamarind and fresh topped with herbs relish, topped with sprouted beans.

Bohri Paneer Samosa missal £4.00
Bombay’s Bohri community Paneer Samosa served with whole black eye beans and lentils.

Vegetable Bhanavla £4.00
Our version of the ubiquitous onion bhaji, first steamed and then griddled in the authentic Maharashtrian way

Prawn and Aubergine Kharphatla £5.75
A warm medley of jumbo prawns and aubergine finished off with a caramelised onion, tomato & pickle masala.

Mussel Rasam £5.75
Mussels gently simmered in tomato and tamarind broth with a prominent flavour of garlic and curry leaves.

Patrani Macchi £5.75
Seasonal fish marinated in fresh green herbs and coconut rolled in banana leaves and steamed.

Scallops Lonche with Rocket Leaves and New Potatoes £7.00
Scallops marinated in pickle masala with caramelised garlic and zest of tropical lime served with rocket leaves and new potatoes.

Shikampuri Kebab £5.25
A delicate kebab of chicken mince, spices & fresh herbs form Nizam’s of Hyderabad, stuffed with Indian
cottage cheese and mint, served with hot and sour onion relish.

Green Peppercorn Malai Tikka £4.75
(Served as main course, please ask the waiter)
Succulent pieces of chicken breast, marinated with fresh green peppercorns, cheese, cooked in a clay oven.

Nawabi Lamb Salli £5.25
Lean minced lamb with fresh fenugreek, mint, coriander, spices, stuffed with home made cottage cheese, served with spicy tomato and onion relish.

Our Version of a Mixed Platter. £12.50 (for two)
Vegetable bhanavla, green peppercorn malai tikka, Nawabi lamb salli and prawn kharphatla served with fresh salad leaves and relish.

Raw Mango, Mint and Cucumber Frappe £5.25
To refresh your palate we recommend this concoction. A natural coolant sweetened with jaggery and flavoured with cardamom.

MAIN COURSE

Porcini Mushroom and Colocasia Leaf Curry £7.50
Porcini Mushroom seared with onions in light lotus leaf gravy.

Tandoori Artichoke and Paneer with warm spicy roasted vegetable relish. £8.50
Cottage cheese & artichoke griddled in clay oven & served with rich spicy gravy of cashew nut and roasted vegetable sauce.

Jumbo Prawns in Pomegranate seeds and Dill. £10.50
Jumbo prawns marinated in yoghurt, pomegranate seeds and dill griddled and served with onion, ginger & tomato relish.

Monkfish Tikka £10.50
Chunks of monkfish marinated in a green masala of coriander and mint, griddled in a clay oven served with a roasted coconut relish and salad.

Karwari Fish Curry £8.75
Seasonal fish curry from the west coast of India with an unusual flavour of the spice (trifala) only native to that area.

Lobster Balcho £15.75
Lobster tails seared with full flavoured hot sauce and balanced with jaggery and Goan spices, served with a timbale of spicy semolina.

Duck Chettinad £9.50
Breast of barbary duck in a blend of Chettinad community spices, roasted coconut and tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Chicken Makhani £7.75
Succulent pieces of tandoori chicken tikka simmered in a tomato and fenugreek gravy.

Kerala Chicken Stew £7.75
A delicate chicken stew from the Syrian Christian community from Kerala with vegetables,
coconut milk and freshly tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Chicken Miravna £7.75
A classic dish form the earliest settled community of Mumbai (the pathare prabhu) with natural green fresh herbs and spices.

Malabar Chicken Curry £7.75
Chicken cooked in coconut oil tempered with mustard seeds whole crushed spices and roughly chopped onion, ginger garlic, curry leaves, tomatoes and finished with tamarind and coconut milk.

Saffron Chicken Korma. £7.75
Pieces of chicken cooked in a very delicate onion, cashew nut and saffron gravy.

Chicken Jhalfarezi £7.75
Succulent pieces of tandoori chicken tikka stir-fried with onion, peppers, tomatoes and green chillies simmered in light tomato gravy.

Mevaari Chicken £7.75
Chicken braised in a robust spinach fenugreek leaf and dill sauce finished with fresh Indian mustard.

Khyber Pass Raan £10.50
Shanks of lamb braised in a robust gravy of poppy seed, onions, ginger and spices,
- A northwest frontier dish

Lamb Roganjosh £8.30
Lamb cooked in a traditional style originated from ‘Awadh’ region in North India with a unique flavour of rogan (tinged, flavoured and spiced oil) and josh - a strong punch of knuckle juice and marrow.

Nilgiri Lamb £8.30
A hill station lamb curry made using stone ground spices, coconut and fresh green herbs.

Lamb Dhansak £8.30
Lamb cooked with dill, pumpkin, aubergine, tamarind, fenugreek and lentils (A speciality of the Mumbai Parsee community)

Ghatti Lamb £8.30
A robust dish form the Sahyadri Ranges made with fresh, hand pounded herbs and black pepper.

Gymkhana Lamb Chops. £13.50
Lamb cutlets marinated in ginger, green chillies and mint, served with a smooth spicy lamb jus.

THALIS

An age-old Indian traditional concept of a complete balance diet for vegetarian or non-vegetarian served in small metal bowls ‘katoris’. Thalis provide a combination of different flavours, textures, colours, fibre and tastes.

Vegetable Thali £16.00
Consist of Smoked Aubergine and Corn (Makai Bharta), Cauliflowers & Peas (Dum Gobi Mutter), Black-eyed Beans (Chauli Usal) Meloni Tarkari (spinach and dill leaves), New potatoes (goda batata rassa), Sprouted Beans salad, Raita, Rice, Bread and Pappadum.

Non Vegetable Thali £19.50
Consist of one main portion of meat, fish, chicken or prawns of your choice with Cauliflowers & peas (Dum Gobi Mutter) Black eyed Beans (Chauli Usal), Meloni Tarkari (spinach and dill leaves), new potatoes (goda batata rassa), Sprouted Beans salad, Raita, Rice, Bread and Pappadum.

BIRYANI

Bhujung Biryani £11.50
Lighter version of traveller’s biryani made in the suburbs of Mumbai express highway (Vasai) with puffed or pulao rice with your choice of Prawns, Chicken, Lamb or Vegetable served with Raita, Salad and Pappadum.(Add a £1.00 for Prawn Biryani)

VEGETABLES

(Side dishes can be served as a main course portion with a supplement of £2.50 added to it, please ask the waiter)

Local Organic seasonal vegetable foogath
£5.75
Tempered with mustard seeds, coconut and curry leaves

Dudhee Bhopla and Chana Bhaji £4.50
Bottle gourd and pumpkin cooked with lentils and tempered with mustard seeds.

Subz Paneer Makhani £5.50
Mixed vegetable and cottage cheese in tomato and fenugreek sauce.

Avial £4.50
Tropical vegetables with coconut, yoghurt and mustard seeds.

Sukka Mushroom Bhaji £4.50
Exotic Mushrooms with sharp Madras shallots and spices.

Goda Batata Rassa£4.00
New potatoes in a blend of tomatoes and onion gravy tempered with mustard seeds and asafoetida.

Baingan and Makai Bharta £4.75
Smoked aubergine, onion and corn.

Meloni Tarkari £4.50
Spinach, fenugreek and dill leaves.

Tadka Dal £4.00
Lentils, garlic and red chillies.

Chauli Usal £4.25
Lentils and mixed beans.

Dum Gobi Matar £4.50
Braised cauliflower with onions, spices and green peas.

Bhindi Do Piaza £4.75
Okra, onion, tomatoes, peppers with black salt and roasted cumin.

Chana Masala
£4.25
Chickpeas with tomatoes, onions and dried mango powder.

Indian Zest Salad £3.25
Seasonal salad leaves with cucumber, radish, tomatoes and sprouted beans

Raita
£3.25
Smoked aubergine, onion tomato and cucumber or a combination of any.

RICE & BREADS

Aromatic basmati rice £2.50

Jeera and saffron pulao £2.75

Lemon and Ginger rice. £2.75

Rice with roasted spices and vegetable. (Masala Bhat) £3.50

Leavened bread (Naan) £2.25

Organic whole wheat bread (Roti) £2.50

Leavened bread with Garlic (Garlic Naan) £2.50

Coconut and raisins stuffed in leavened bread. (Peshwari Naan) £3.25

Cottage cheese stuffed in leavened bread (Paneer kulcha) £3.25

Organic layered whole wheat bread (laccha paratha) £2.75

Bread of the day (Please ask the waiter) £3.00

DESSERT

Tandoori figs and organic apple muesli crumble £4.75
Tandoori figs and organic apple muesli crumble with vanilla ice cream.

Rasmalai £4.50
Casein of milk poached in saffron and caramelised milk.
Served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Gulab jamun £4.50
Caramelised milk dumplings served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Deshi Kulfi £4.50
Mango flavoured Indian ice cream made with reduced caramelised milk, saffron and a dash of Malibu.

Mixed berry frozen yoghurt £4.25
Soft, low fat frozen yoghurt interlaced with swirls of blackberry, raspberry, strawberry and blackcurrant sauce.

Dairy vanilla with pods £4.25
Thick, creamy vanilla ice cream spotted with ground, aromatic vanilla pods.

Dairy milk chocolate chip £4.25
Smooth milk chocolate dairy ice cream with rich, dark chocolate chips.

Mango sorbet £4.25
Exotically sweet whole fruit sorbet containing ripe, fragrant mangoes.

Tropical lime sorbet with zest £4.25
A mouth watering tropical lime sorbet

Tea £2.50
Peppermint, camomile, masala, Earl Grey, green tea, Darjeeling

Coffee

Coffee £2.50
Espresso £2.00
Cappuccino, latte £2.75
dbl espresso £2.50
Liqueur coffee £4.50

Dessert Wine £14.50
Sauternes, La Fleur D’Or, France (½ bottle) 13.5%

Spicy Very Spicy

Two Course Lunch Menu @ £8.75 per person

Please select any one Starter

STARTERS


Bohri Paneer Samosa missal V
Bombay’s Bohri community’s Paneer Samosa served with whole black eye beans and lentils.

Vegetable Bhanavla V
Our version of the ubiquitous onion bhajji first steamed and then griddled in the authentic Maharashtrian way.

Green Peppercorn Malai Tikka
Succulent pieces of chicken breast, marinated with fresh green peppercorns, cheese, cooked in a clay oven.


Nawabi Lamb Salli

Lean minced lamb with fresh fenugreek, mint, coriander, spices, stuffed with home made cottage cheese, served with spicy tomato and onion relish.


Please select any one Main Course.
Served with long grain steamed Basmati Rice and a Naan bread.


MAIN COURSE


Chicken makhani

Succulent pieces of tandoori chicken tikka simmered in a tomato and fenugreek gravy.

Saffron Chicken Korma
Pieces of chicken cooked in a very delicate onion, cashew nut and saffron gravy.

Lamb Roganjosh
Lamb cooked in a traditional style originated from ‘Awadh’ region in North India with a unique flavour of rogan (tinged, flavoured and spiced oil) and josh - a strong punch of knuckle juice and marrow.

Lamb Dhansak
Lamb cooked with dill, pumpkin, aubergine, tamarind, fenugreek and lentils (A speciality of the Mumbai Parsee community)

Godi Batata Rassa V
New potatoes in a blend of tomatoes and onion gravy tempered with mustard seeds and asafoetida

Dum Gobi Matter V
Braised cauliflower with onions, spices and green peas

Chana Masala V
Chickpeas with tomatoes, onions and dried mango powder.

Tadka Dal V
Rare blend of mixed lentils tempered with cumin Seeds and garlic

Spicy Very Spicy

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