Tamarind Restaurant

One of the first Indian restaurants in the world to win a Michelin star, which it holds to this day, Tamarind offers world-class Indian food in London.

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The Tamarind restaurant is an Indian restaurant in Mayfair, London, opened in 1995.

It won a Michelin star in 2001, the first Indian restaurant to do so.

[3] The Michelin Guide calls the cuisine "appealing northern Indian food" and "of great finesse".

[4] Jonathan Gold, in the Los Angeles Times, wrote that he had been impressed by its "frank attempt to produce Indian food with the sheen and polish of white-tablecloth European cuisine", though he chiefly recalled "the wine list, the flowers, and the cost."

September 2007 restaurant review Tamarind London | Indian ...

Aloo tikki is Indian street-food, pan-fried potato cakes: in this case cooked with ginger, lentils and a stuffing of spinach and toasted cumin.

Better was the channa chat, crisps made from gram flour mixed with tender chickpeas, mint chutney, sweetened yoghurt and (the key ingredient) tamarind chutney.

The best dish of the night was achari pudina tikka, chicken tikka marinated with yoghurt, coriander, spices and mint, then cooked in the tandoor.

The fish was cooked correctly but the sauce was rather bland, and this dish seemed hardly Indian at all (12/20).

The cooking is good, but I am baffled as to why Michelin have elevated it to stardom when places like Haandi, Deya and Mintleaf are ignored.

Tamarind - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Tamarind | Restaurants in Mayfair, London

Elegant and sophisticated, Tamarind’s basement dining area is enhanced by muted lighting, crisp linen, and speckled mirrors across walls.

Classic Indian dishes score over modern interpretations on the menu, with several choices verging on the homely – despite the setting.

Although the dish was tender and juicy, the spicing could have done with an extra hit of green chilli.

Chat (a pile-up of crisp-fried pastry discs, bathed in yoghurt and made tangy with tamarind sauce and mint chutney) was topped incongruously with blueberries.

Rogan josh lamb curry had an outstandingly mellow and mild red chilli sauce, enriched with fried onion-ginger paste, yet the meat could have been more tender.