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Tandoor Chop House
Tandoor Chop House is the meeting of a North Indian communal eatery and a classic British chop house.
the tandoor ovens, Indian spices and marinades, select prime cuts of meat, and buzzing atmosphere.
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Tandoor Chop House
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Tandoor Chop House is the meeting of a North Indian communal eatery and a classic British chop house.
the tandoor ovens, Indian spices and marinades, select prime cuts of meat, and buzzing atmosphere.
Review: Tandoor Chop House | Londonist
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They know that good grills (lamb chops, seekh kebabs) are to be found in the kebab houses of Whitechapel (Lahore Kebab House, Tayyabs, Needo Grill), that Southall is the place to head for Punjabi food, and so on.
Tandoor Chop House is one such place.
Described as a meeting of a 'classic British chop house' (a place where men went to eat steak, basically) and a North Indian café, you will find naan bread reinforced with British dexter beef dripping (or bone marrow), and pollock rubbed with masala and poked towards the tandoor (rubbish fish, pollock but sustainable so, hey ho); bhajis are made-over as onion rings.
Stepping inside Tandoor Chop House is to enter a place of skewers, flames and smoke.
It's a dimly lit room, dominated at one end by a kitchen where metal flashes in and out of tandoors, bread slaps against hot clay, and buzzing chatter is fuelled by great cocktails.
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Drawing inspiration from North Indian communal diners and the English chop house, the aptly named Tandoor Chop House focuses on serving up prime cuts of meat steeped (quite literally) in traditional Indian cooking techniques – so expect flavoursome marinades, perfect naans, and aromatic spicy rubs.
…In which, of course, they’re cooking dishes like chicken marinated in hung curd (that’s yoghurt drained of all its water), garlic, ginger and spices; Masala boti rubbed ribeye, and amritsari lamb chops.
And you can wash all this down with their drinks, which, aside from house cocktails, wine and craft beers, include a list of specially designed gt’s with complementary blends of herbs spices, such as the Star of Bombay with orange, mint and hazelnut.
NOTE: Tandoor Chop House is now open Mon-Fri, 11.30am-11pm, Sat 12-11pm and Sun 1-10pm.
Tandoor Chop House | 8 Adelaide Street, WC2N 4HZ
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Tandoor Chop House is a venue that's just as suitable for a working lunch as it is for a pre-theatre bite or a Friday-night blowout.
Elsewhere, there's a good range of core beers and a rotating line-up of guest ales, and we felt at home with the on-tap house white, a peachy, crisp Sicilian Terre De Chiara Grillo – a snip at £5 a glass.
The assured, compact menu proclaims that "all our dishes are served fresh from the oven", and just walking into the restaurant confirms it: it smells unmistakably (and deliciously) of spiced, grilled meat cooked over coals.
Seekh kebab was everything we wanted from the dish, with tangy, minted green chutney and a sparing use of pomegranate seeds; black dahl had just the fragrant, muscovado-sugar flavour we expected; and lamb chops confirmed what the aroma on entry hinted at: succulent meat, fresher than fresh, with verve, spice and char.
Small plates £3-£16.50; wine from £5 by the glass.
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It’s a simple concept but a mighty clever one: take the best, meatiest elements of a British chop house and layer them with the spices of Indian tandoor cooking.
When you enter Tandoor Chop House, just off the Strand, the first thing you’ll notice is the smoke — and the meandering scent of grilling meat, roasting chillies and emanating spice rubs.
To kick off chomp down on loaded mini naans with toppings such as beef mince laced with dripping, green chilli and yoghurt, or juicy lamb seekh kebab roll.
The house tandoor chicken is beautifully moist and comes coated in a musky spice rub: Indian Nando’s.
A cheesey option with garlic and a sprinkling of fresh green chilli is every bit as delicious as it promises to be, but I don’t need to tell you again that it’s the naan topped with a pool of melted bone marrow that steals the show.
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Tandoor Chop House, 8 Adelaide Street, London WC2N 4HZ (020 3096 0359).
Meal for two, including drinks and service: £110 High up the wall at the Tandoor Chop House, just off London’s Strand, is a place where the newly installed wood panelling gives way to the original breeze blocks.
Alternatively it’s a pragmatic approach to the realities of the restaurant business: that in all likelihood this place, built around food cooked in tandoor ovens, will be gone in a couple of years, to be replaced by a Portuguese peri peri grill house or a Hawaiian tiki bar or whatever new trend Instagram deems suitably hot.
I’m certainly not sure the Tandoor Chop House is a great advertisement for the approach.
The seekh kebab of minced spiced lamb at the Tandoor Chop House is a more than passable example.
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Before all this, a couple of charcoal-blistered little naans had competed for my affections.
The first, a pistachio-studded seekh kebab, came strewn with zingy bits of red onion, green chutney, pomegranate seeds and fresh coriander.
You’ll kick yourself if you don’t try the thickly marinated, fatty-edged lamb chops, all soot and spice.
I say pretty much: the bhaji onion rings and gunpowder fries were so-so, while ‘green masala’ pollock was soggy.
There were just two people working the floor and they couldn’t have been more cheery, more attentive, or more passionate about the cooking.