Zamdani The Indian Tandoori

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Excellent takeaway 16th September 2008

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1 of 2 favourite Indian restaurants in Brighton/Hove to be found on the corner of Church Road and Sackville Road. A little bit pricier than your average but in my opinion worth the extra. I have only ever ordered takeaway so cannot comment on service or the restaurant itself but the food is definitely better quality than some of the Indian food I have sampled in further into town. The dishes on offer are what you would expect from any Indian, they taste authentic and freshly cooked with big chunks of tender, moist and smoky chicken in really flavoursome curries. I generally find you get this better flavour with tandoori dishes....as their website says:
"Many of our dishes are cooked in the 'tandoor' which is a barrel-shaped, open topped clay oven fired by charcoal. Tandoori dishes are marinated in yoghurt with a mixture of herbs and spices and cooked at a high temperature in the tandoor over burning charcoal. This process seals in the goodness and the smouldering charcoal lends the food a very distinct flavour".

On first opening your takeaway curry you are inclined to think there is not a lot of chicken in the sauce, maybe 6-7 pieces, but each of these is bigger than usual and if you've ordered naan bread and rice as well you'll struggle to finish it all. We tend to go for the milder dishes - Korma, Tandoori Tikka Masala and Pathia, which in some places all just taste too similar (like they've come from the same base curry mixture or something), but at Zamdani these have always had their own distinct flavour .

A nice touch on their website : "If a dish that you like is not listed on the menu please ask as we may be able to cook it for you. Any queries, please ask the manager, Hasnath who will be happy to help".

One thing - it's pick-up only, they don't deliver.