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Guardian |
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12/02/2003 |
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Memsaheb |
The Guide - 11th of April,1998 The brilliantly named MemSaheb On Thames is hosting a Calcutta food Festival until the end of April. It has to be said that food isn't the first thing that springs to mind when Calcutta is mentioned, but the grub here is the real thing, only without the heat and dust (not to mention a few other things).
Thin bread stuffed with lentils and spiced chickpeas with egg and tamarind will bring tear to the most stoic of Bengal eyes, and other tasty diversions from the curry norm are Calcuttan rice cooked in milk and capsicum chicken. No crap ice cream and no lychees in syrup, but patishapta - not just a dessert, but a big old mustachioed aristocrat of a desert, consisting of pancake, concentrated milk, coconut and cream.
Inside, white walls and spacious rooms make it little less like Calcutta, and outside there is a nice view of the river as long as you avoid looking at the Dome's gnarled fingers. Homage is paid to the original Bengal groover. Ravl Shankar with a sitar player.
We are also in the Good Food Guide and have been selected as Critic's Choice in Time Out Eating and Drinking 1999 |
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