D: is for Mrs Majhu’s
A few months ago a friend suggested we go for a meal in pay-week and work our way through the restaurants going through the alphabet.. we had recently been to Cafe Andaluz, so started with *B*aby Grand then last month was *C*otiers, so this month was ‘D’ Now the person tasked with booking The Dinning Room on Byres Road ran into problems – it’s closed. So he just booked the new place that has opened on the same premises and so D: is for Mrs Majhu’s !? On a side note we were joined this month by Mr De-’Beat Attitude’ which kind of makes up for it.
| So Mrs Majhu’s – 41 Byres Road, has only been open for about four weeks, and is lovely! It is Indian cuisine but there is no korma, pasanda, tika masala or even nan on the menu here. Instead a nice mix of starters and selection of main courses with chicken, lamb and vegetable choices of course, but also a salmon dish and one with cod which both sounded interesting.
However, after spending last weekend in a village where there were more sheep and lambs than people – I went for “Lamb cooked in spices with spinach” (or something like that, I didn’t take notes at the time), the others had a couple of the chicken dishes. To accompany these we had a few dishes of rice and a couple of chapatti options (one of these chapatti’s was a bit too oily for us, but as I didn’t catch what it was this isn’t turning into too useful a review). |
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The lamb was fantastic! It was perfectly cooked to melt-in-the-mouth texture nicely spiced but not so much that overpowered the taste of the meat itself. One of the chicken dishes was a little too salty for one person but everyone enjoyed the meal. The surroundings were nice, although perhaps a little cramped as we tried to get five around a table meant for four. The staff were friendly and efficient although thrown a little when asked if there was any way that the restaurant could change it’s name to something starting with ‘D’!
