Cafe Spice Namaste

Address:	16 Prescott Street E1 8AZ
Tel	020 7488 9242
Email:	info@cafespice.co.uk
Website:	Visit Cafe Spice Namaste website
Price: £38.00	Wine: £14.00	Champagne: £29.00
Opening Hours:	Mon-Fri 12N-3pm Mon-Sat 6.15-10.30pm

Square Meal review of Cafe Spice Namaste:

A handsome red-brick Victorian pile with a discreet garden is the setting for this innovative Indian on the City’s eastern border, where the bright colours & majestic swags of the spacious dining room do for the conventions of curry-house decor what the menu does for Indian food. The food generally impresses, from the good chutneys & pickles that accompany the poppadoms to the delicious beetroot & coconut samosas. Most impressive of all is a main course of Goan king prawn curry – the prawns vast, the sauce fiery but civilised with a subdued coconut sweetness. Not everything scales such heights. Among the side dishes, a chickpea, bamboo shoot & enoki mushroom xacutti is intriguing but the promised mushrooms are not much in evidence & a dish of aloo gobi is watery & tasteless. The wine list is eclectic, though there’s a French-dominated prestige list, which includes a Domaine Blanck Alsace Gewurztraminer.

Chef Cyrus Todiwala
Something of a celebrity these days, having been drafted in to all manner of radio & TV food forums, Cyrus has immeasurably enhanced the dining public's understanding of Indian cuisine. He's a staunch defender of authentic regional dishes & techniques, particularly his native Parsee dishes, but he's not afraid to introduce adventurous ingredients onto his menu – hence we find kangaroo tikka or occasional crocodile concoctions. The success of his second restaurant in SW11 is also proof that there is still a wider audience who wish to sample his cooking.

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