Indian Accent

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Indian Accent | Inventive Indian Cuisine in London

"This is Indian food but not as we know it.

Indian Accent London gets a 5 Star rating by Fay Maschler, Restaurant Critic for the Evening Standard.

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Indian Accent | Inventive Indian Cuisine in London

"This is Indian food but not as we know it.

Indian Accent London gets a 5 Star rating by Fay Maschler, Restaurant Critic for the Evening Standard.

Indian Accent, Mayfair: Restaurant Review

Our intrepid reviewer discovers an inventive approach to Indian cuisine at Albermarle Street newcomer, Indian Accent As my friend and I share a knowing look over the brims of our tiny matte black cups of warm pumpkin and coconut shorba, two things go through my mind.

Indian Accent first opened in New Delhi in 2009, with executive chef Manish Mehrotra pioneering its innovative – if not unorthodox – menu, which reinvents Indian dishes using techniques from various cuisines.

A trio of small but mighty mathri cones (flaky North Indian biscuits) are filled with smoked aubergine bharta, powerful methi chicken and aromatic duck khurchan – meaning ‘leftovers’ or ‘scrapes’ in Hindi.

The cones are wrapped in what appears to be a typical Indian newspaper, but look a little closer and you’ll see the executive chef beneath the headlines.

Mehrotra imaginatively combines global influences with Indian flavours to an exceptional standard throughout the menu, but I can’t deny that I would return just to taste the shorba and the naan once more – an arrangement that I find myself comparing to a holy communion of sorts.

New Openings: Manish Mehotra's Indian Accent opens in London

Following New Delhi and New York, the World’s Best Indian Restaurant lands in London What’s New?

Indian Accent, the best restaurant in India according to the World’s 50 Best, opens a third restaurant, this time in London.

Behind The Scenes: Manish Mehrotra, a culinary celebrity in India, leads the luxury line-up at the Old World Hospitality group.

Indian Accent’s his baby, with branches at New Delhi’s Lodhi Hotel and Le Parker Meridien in New York.

London Reviews: Indian Accent – The Foodie Diaries

Of course, if you’re familiar with Chef Manish Mehrotra’s clever twist on classic Indian cuisine, the question is a redundant one as Indian Accent is nothing if not exhilaratingly unique.

Speaking as someone who’s made dedicated trips to Delhi just for the pleasure of dining at the original (listed in the World’s 100 Best), Indian Accent London is in fact the restaurant opening which I’ve been most looking forward to this year… The London launch comes hot on the heels of a successful outpost in New York, bringing with it Chef Manish’s inimitable brand of East-meets-West cuisine.

While similarly-stuffed naans are now ubiquitous across fusion-focused eateries, Indian Accent is synonymous with this iconic dish – having created the recipe at the start of their journey to redefine the vocabulary of Indian cuisine.

We finish with a doda barfi treacle tart – one of the most popular desserts at Indian Accent, tracing its origins back to England.

Inspired by a Sainsbury’s treacle tart encountered by Chef Manish during his time living in London (back in 2007), the dessert combines the sticky sweetness of this quintessential British pudding with the fudgey texture of doda barfi (an Indian sweet typically distributed during Diwali).

review of London Indian restaurant Indian Accent by Andy Hayler in ...

Chef/owner Manish Mehrotra has taken a modern approach to Indian food at each of his establishments, serving such exotica as blue cheese naan, so this is definitely not a traditional Indian restaurant.

The overall effect is an unusual and interesting take on the classic street food dish, the sweetness of the tamarind chutney combining well with the other elements (15/20).

Soy keema with quail egg was an impressive take on a Bombay street snack, usually made with minced lamb and served with pau or pav (a small white bread roll brought to India by the Portugeuse).

I tried this dish just a couple of weeks earlier in Delhi and the version here was every bit as good, the supple bread packed with bacon flavour (18/20).

At a second meal, this time at lunch, the blue cheese naan and shorba were once again the initial course, and were just as good as a few days earlier (16/20).

Fay Maschler reviews Indian Accent: A dazzling new take on Indian ...

Manish Mehrotra is an Indian chef whom I first encountered over a decade ago in charge of pan-Asian food in a nightclubby restaurant called Tamarai under the New London Theatre in Drury Lane.

Cut to 2009, when Tamarai owner Rohit Khattar installs Mehrotra in his Manor Hotel in New Delhi to run a restaurant called Indian Accent.

The naan gives a shout out for all the breads woven into the menu such as phulka, dosa, pao, roti, papad and kulcha, the bedrock of Indian eating and often the saving grace in Indian restaurants far less blessed than this one.

Millet khichdi, beef laal maas (Rajasthani curry), Parmesan yoghurt, a far cry from what the British took from Indian in the name of kedgeree, is extraordinarily rich and savoury.

Not turning to the transformations implicit in molecular gastronomy, Indian Accent dishes instead cheekily borrow and adapt as exemplified in the main course of ghee roast lamb, roomali roti pancakes.

New Openings: Manish Mehotra's Indian Accent opens in London

Following New Delhi and New York, the World’s Best Indian Restaurant lands in London What’s New?

Indian Accent, the best restaurant in India according to the World’s 50 Best, opens a third restaurant, this time in London.

Behind The Scenes: Manish Mehrotra, a culinary celebrity in India, leads the luxury line-up at the Old World Hospitality group.

Indian Accent’s his baby, with branches at New Delhi’s Lodhi Hotel and Le Parker Meridien in New York.

Indian Accent, London W1: restaurant review | Grace Dent | Life and ...

Over the past 500 or so restaurants I’ve been to, I’ve developed a shorthand for places like Indian Accent: the scribble “OPM”, or Other People’s Money.

Indian Accent hammers home that New Delhi chefs can channel faff and frippery as much as our own home-grown Michelin star-chasers.

Or, more accurately, you’d be better off over the road at the Sethi family’s Gymkhana (by God, I love that place), where for similar prices they’ll stuff you with venison keema naan, duck chettinad and wild muntjac biryani.

Especially married couples of seven or more years who will take an ornate breakdown about a soy keema with quail egg and lime leaf butter pao over a tedious chat as to why the council has replaced their recycling bin.

And you can swap the lamb for rajastani chakki, a meat substitute formed from fried atta dough and tossed in an onion gravy.

Indian Accent restaurant review - London, UK | Wallpaper*

For most cities, the news that a branch of Indian Accent, the revered Delhi temple to Indian fine dining, had opened, would be met with some feverish anticipation.

But London’s reputation for upscale eateries specialising in the food of the subcontinent, coupled with 2017’s glut of intriguing new South Asian offerings, makes the city’s locals an especially tough crowd to please.

To that end, they’ve commissioned Brighton-based studio Design LSM to reimagine materials familiar in Indian architecture to create an appropriately luxurious interior.

As with Indian Accent’s locations in New York and Delhi, there’s also an excellent wine list, as well as a selection of rare whiskies and fine cocktails.