Lucky enough to be able to afford to eat out? Some people in Leeds don't even have basic meals and shelter. Click here to Donate to St.Georges Crypt

Wednesday, 2 November 2011

1875 Restaurant, Menston

I was invited, along with a group of other food bloggers to visit 1875 in Menston.

Located conveniently on the top floor of the Menston railway station building this restaurant, although a bit out of the way out benefits from a large car park and direct bus and rail links!

The owner who invited us was keen to stress 'This is not your usual curry house'. This is an Indian restaurant where the chefs have been hand picked from the best restaurants and hotels in India.

The menu is a range of traditional dishes from all regions of India.
scarily hot tandoori oven
As this was a bloggers event we were allowed to have a tour of the kitchen. After putting on aprons and hairnets, the chef showed us the spices he used and how he rolled chapatti put them in the searing hot tandoori oven.
the aftermath- scraped plates!

We were then sat down in the restaurant for a meal, we were given a mixture of dishes, starters of samosas, Murg Tikka (tandoori chicken) which were really tasty, a couple of vegetable curries, a beef masala and pork vindaloo. Yes beef and pork in a curry (apparently this is not that unusual in Christian areas of India, we are just used to curries cooked by Muslims in the UK).

The prices are more than a usual curry... but that is ok as this is more than a usual curry. I will be going back to have a proper meal there.

Website

1 comments:

Becs@Lay the table said...

I refused to go because I'd already been invited twice and they cancelled both times! Does look like you had great fun though!