Curry Club - Thursday 7 March 2019 - venue TBC

[katie1997]

Namaste MP - where's the next venue then ?

Anywhere else local thats possibly as spectacular at airborne manouevres with Hot Rice? ;)

Was ganapati mentioned or did I just make that up ... ?

[Floating Onion]

I'd suggest trying the revamped Pistachio Club as it's supposed to be open tomorrow.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Good call Mr Onion, I might try it beforehand just to make sure and to drop a few hints re the 11th.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Veer Zara.

On the basis of the idea from Floating Onion, I and a friend tried the new Veer Zara (formerly Pistachio Club) yesterday evening.

The place is painted a glorious red, lots of red, the staff are wearing red with red ties. Its red.

A little more time could have been spent finishing of some of the small details like straightening the pictures and taking at least one of them out of the plastic wrapping before putting it on the wall.

There were 6 staff on duty, plus the owner and the owner's mate.

Service was attentive but with obvious signs of this being a very new enterprise, waiters not knowing the menu, food taking a little too long to come out of the kitchen and delivery orders being incorrect, judging by the phone calls being fielded by the owner.

Food was standard stuff, albeit with the trendy new stylee names favoured by the refurbished curry houses. Veer Zama dont have their "House Specialities" or "Chef's Recommendations" they have their "Veer Zara Creations". Still its good to ring the changes.

Popadoms were served with a mint raita (good) but confusion was caused when we asked for pickles - a pot of lime pickle was eventually produced, no other pickle was available. I had Shashlik Chicken which "is cooked from fresh which is why it takes longer to cook Sir" - it was fine but took too long to appear, standard Shashlik as one would expect. My friend had Jeenga Prawn (a "Creation") which promised much but tasted suspiciously like supermarket curry powder. The portion of Brinjal was good, rice and nan were standard.

All beer was bottled (not chilled enough), no draft.

Our bill was ?15 each.

OK, so not a disaster and it is very early days; however they will need to sharpen up fast if they are to succeed against the cut throat competition on the Lane. Being average simply wont do.

There was nothing which was bad but nothing which was stand-out excellent or different, nothing to drag me away from my own favourites on the Lane.

Curry Club is a few weeks away yet, so I suggest that we do go to Veer Zara and see how things are then. People can then make their own minds up.

[Mick Mac]

MP aka AA Gill

[????]

...better than Michael Winner

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

... and better looking than Tom Parker Bowles

[Michael Palaeologus]

As a reminder - Monday 11 October at Veer Zara - the new one.

[ED Lurker]

Ooo.. sounds interesting! Always like to try a new place.

[Jeremy]

Is it under new management, or just a name change?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Both Jeremy.

[Floating Onion]

And red. Very red.

[Jeremy]

Shame. I liked Pistachio Club.

[ED Lurker]

Hope the curries arn't the same colour red!

[Michael Palaeologus]

This Monday Curry Lovers.

Who is up for it?

I think we will go for a "wear some red" evening :))

[giggirl]

So Mr P - what were you telling me was a low-carb, low-fat Indian meal again?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Chicken Tikka with salad GG!! Come on, its lovely.

[hibbs]

I'm in.

X

[Michael Palaeologus]

Bless you Hibbsy XX

Edited to protect the innocent

[hibbs]

Arh thank you for your blessing, much appreciated, I feel very special.

[Michael Palaeologus]

You are indeed Special.

They spotted that at school didnt they? :))

[Michael Palaeologus]

Meet at 7.30 at the EDT ............

[giggirl]

I'm wearing a red dress today so I guess I'm in.

Pxx

[Michael Palaeologus]

Red socks me :))

[brum]

Count me and LB in please. Hmmm what can I wear that's red...?