Indian
7-9 Paddington Street, London W1U 5QH
Latest critic review: June 06, 2010
Atul Kochhar brings Indian "street food" to Marylebone...
Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar of Benares joins forces with restaurateur Carlo Spetale (The Ebury and Notting Hill Brasserie) to open this middle market restaurant serving street trader/small plate food from the sub-continent.
Critic Reviews
AA Gill Sunday Times
Reviewed on June 06, 2010
"The fusion of tapas with Indian food is dead dim. You can’t think of two cuisines with fewer meeting points and less in common." READ REVIEW
Hugo Rifkind Times
Reviewed on May 08, 2010
"...the food wasn’t bad. It’s not really Indian food, but more a sort of East/West fusion, as though the chef quite liked the idea of kedgeree and wanted to see if there was a whole menu in it." READ REVIEW
"...in the end I couldn’t pick out one colony from another in any of these dishes; the flavours were cacophonous." READ REVIEW
Matthew Norman Guardian
Reviewed on April 10, 2010
"All having returned to the kitchen barely touched, a French chap sidled over to report the chef's insistence that the food was fine. Perhaps so, I said, but the chef doesn't have to eat it." READ REVIEW
Tracey MacLeod Independent
Reviewed on April 03, 2010
"Even though many of the dishes we tried were very good, they weren't quite good enough to earn Colony a rave review." READ REVIEW
Fay Maschler Evening Standard
Reviewed on April 01, 2010
"...the potential for enjoyment seems to have been spoiled by division of labour into too many menu concepts, a faintly bogus theme and demonstrably bad value." READ REVIEW
Zoe Strimpel City AM
Reviewed on March 30, 2010
"The slinky, elegant bar serves great cocktails and posh Asian street food: move into the dining room for top notch, if slightly overwrought Indian-inspired food." READ REVIEW
Anon Time Out
Reviewed by March 08, 2010
"The bar is warmly welcoming and has a buzzy vibe - it's a pity the adjoining dimly lit dining room couldn't boast the same buoyancy." READ REVIEW
Stephen Farmer View London
Reviewed on March 05, 2010
"Every bit as impressive as Benares – perhaps even more so" READ REVIEW
Richard & Peter Harden's
Reviewed on March 01, 2010
"...if you want to Indian cuisine à la Kocchar, it’s not at all clear – at least to us – that there isn’t rather better value to be had by saving up and making the pilgrimage to his Mayfair gaff instead." READ REVIEW
"...my main criticism has nothing to do with how new the restaurant is handling its early stages, but with the concept itself, which shoehorns this potentially glorious cuisine into an unsympathetic format by sucking all the spirit from it and making it as inoffensive as possible." READ REVIEW
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