My expedition of discovering London’s best Indian eateries has been quite a roller coaster this year. Just a week short of going back home to India, I thought I’d give it one last shot at one of the more upmarket and well known haunts, Rasoi by Vineet Bhatia. A chef who’s been making marks since being one of the first Indian chefs to win a Michelin star for his restaurant Zaika, and also started the trend of modern Indian food, Vineet went on to open Rasoi after Zaika and was soon given a star again. To curry or not curry? What on earth is a curry? That by which name Indian food is so well known, and as Lizzie Collingham in her brilliant book “Curry: A biography” explains, is not a defining term for a dish, but rather a western generalised description, an Asian version of gravy, coined during the days of the Raj. Nevertheless, an anthropological discourse on food is not the order of the day, and before I get even more carried away on the matter, lets see what there was on offer.
November 23, 2011
Rasoi by Vineet Bhatia
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