Delhi Grill

Indian Canteen

Delhi Grill | Indian Canteen

http://www.delhigrill.com

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Delhi Grill review Islington Chapel Market Indian restaurant - Indian ...

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Its relatively small menu of around twenty items ranging from finger bites like samosa to more substantial meat dishes such as rogan gosht come with prices between £1.50 to under £7.

After Metro’s favourable review, Delhi Grill has been seeing full house almost every evening.

The Delhi grill (£6.50) was meant for two and came with chicken tikkas, sheekh kebabs and lamb chops.

Taking its price into consideration, Delhi Grill’s samosa was way better that those that you get from the dodgy snack bars in Tube stations.

We thought that the lamb cubes in Delhi Grill’s rogan gosht was a bit tough for our liking despite it being cooked for over two hours.

Delhi Grill restaurant review 2013 April London | Indian Cuisine ...

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Chicken tikka (£3.50) was served on a hot iron griddle, and although it had a pleasant marinade the meat itself was not of very high quality, with a slightly stringy texture (11/20).

Karahi chicken (£8.95) had a rather watery, one-dimensional sauce and chicken with distinctly poor texture, slightly dried out in the cooking process (9/20).

Mattar paneer (£5.95) was the best of the dishes at this stage, the cottage cheese having reasonable texture, served with peas and a tomato-based sauce that in this case did have somewhat more vibrant spicing (12/20).

The Delhi Grill is clearly popular, and the pricing of its dishes is moderate.

The best dishes, such as the fish pakora, were very good, but this meal was inconsistent, and the chicken karahi in particular was disappointing.

Delhi Grill - London Restaurant Reviews | Hardens

Delhi Grill | North London | Restaurant Reviews | Hot Dinners

North London's top 10 budget restaurants | Travel | The Guardian

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At £1.50 (takeaway), the lahmacun, a kind of thin, crisp Turkish pizza, topped with a hugely tasty, quietly fiery mix of minced lamb, chilli, garlic, onions, fresh herbs and pulped tomato, is exceptional value.

A main meal portion of six juicy, generously seasoned kofte patties, served over a stock-cooked mix of fat, squat rice and chickpeas, accompanied by salad and a half-loaf of ultra-fresh Turkish bread, is similarly brilliant.

At night, you will find several main dishes available at £8.95-£9.75, such as fish and chips or pork chop with roasted Cox's apple and a white bean cassoulet, while by day it serves an affordable brunch (midday-4pm), smaller "larder" dishes and superior, jazzed-up salads, such as broccoli and cauliflower with sweet black sesame sauce and a good butternut squash and feta.

• Small plates, salads and brunch dishes £2.75-£6.50, mains £8.95-£12.

The food takes in meat and cheese platters, soups, colourful salads, attractive baked goods and pizzas (£9-£12) which, reassuringly, the staff on duty declined to serve to the Guardian before lunch because the pizza oven had not yet got up to the right temperature.

Delhi Grill | Restaurants in Pentonville, London

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An upbeat Punjabi pit-stop on Chapel Market, majoring in street food snacks and slow-cooked curries.

A lively canteen-style joint, Delhi Grill provides a focused menu of home-style Punjabi dishes – along with wraps sold from a smart stall outside in Chapel Market during the day.

The selection of street-food starters such as samosa chat are more in keeping with this mood than the Indian-restaurant standard chicken tikka.

The cooking shows that the kitchen isn’t following the usual formula, but is prepared to go out and do its own thing, so tilapia with coriander and coconut milk joins hearty slow-cooked rogan josh, a biriani and chicken karahi on the menu.

There’s a lightness to the preparation, evident in a punjabi prawn masala with fresh flavours of peppers, tomato and ginger.

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