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Salloos | Pakistan restaurant 'Salloos' Review
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The menu is divided into tandoori dishes that have been marinated 24 hours, salloos specialities (curry type of dishes mainly), Saallan (mixed sort of dishes), rice dishes, kebabs and vegetable dishes.
My friend who had recommended I come to Salloos told me to pre-order the dish “Chicken in Cheese” which was their speciality.
I love lamb chops at Lahore, so we also ordered the “tandoori chops”, which the menu said was their signature dish and were “melt in the mouth tender and moist” lamb chops.
We also ordered a curry - Chicken Karahi (£18.50), which is a speciality from the Khyber region, deboned chicken cooked in fresh tomatoes, ginger, green chillies and fragrant coriander, as well as pulao (Basmati rice cooked in homemade lamb stock and punctuated with fragrant whole spices of cardamoms, cloves and cinnamon) and naad bread and a vegetable dish of Bhindi (Okra cooked with tomatoes, onions and spices for £10.50) to go with it.
I thought the pulao rice was very fragrant, the chicken karahi was a good curry but once again I think the same dish is a lot more flavoursome (and 3x cheaper) at Lahore.
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Spices can be strong like garlic and ginger, or hot like chilli and paprika.
The main course, a Salloos signature dish, that keeps both customers and reviewers returning time and again, are the Tandoori Chops, (tender lamb chops marinated in herbs and spices cooked in the Tandoor).
Another popular signature dish is Chicken Karahi (a speciality from the Khyber: diced and de boned chicken, cooked with spices, tomatoes, chopped ginger, coriander and green chillies, served straight from the fire in an iron wok).
Gosht Khara Masala is lamb cooked with whole fragrant spices and julienne ginger.
These two may be served in a quite delicious combination of hot and cold, a Salloos signature dessert.
Salloos restaurant review 2012 June London | Indian Cuisine | food ...
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The wine list has around fifty wines, ranging in price from £20 to £180, with an average price of £40, the list mostly but not entirely consisting of French wines.
The average mark-up appeared to be around 2.8 times retail price, but without the vintages it is hard to be precise.
The chops were tender and nicely spiced, and although I have had better tandoori lamb chops elsewhere they were certainly good (13/20).
Chana masala (£10.50) had reasonable, though just slightly overcooked chickpeas and pleasant spicing (12/20) and mixed vegetables (£10.50) retained some texture but were bland (11/20).
I recall eating at Salloos in 1984, just after I came to London, and thinking the food was pleasant but that the bill was absurdly high.