Cafe Lazeez - CLOSED

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8th February 2007

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The menu at Café Lazeez is based on North Indian/Punjabi cuisine. This means that the majority of dishes are subtly spiced and barbecued, grilled or allowed to cook slowly in their own juices in a haandi, a large round bottomed cooking vessel used for stewing, which might sometimes have a dough seal fitted.

It would be possible to summarise the cuisine with the words, light and fresh, and therefore healthy. If this is different from what critics of Indian cooking have to say about an excess of spices and oil, giving over-rich results, it is because Lazeez are aware of contemporary attitudes towards more healthy food in Britain. Most of the dishes are grilled or dry-fried, with sunflower oil used instead of traditional ghee.

Lazeez is renowned for its tandoor and the Lazeez Barbecue Feast is a noble dish of jumbo prawns, char grilled salmon, chicken tikka and lamb seekh kebab.

Amongst the main dishes are fillets of tilapia cooked in yoghurt sauce tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves, or saag gosht, tender pieces of lamb with spinach, dill, fenugreek and carefully selected fresh spices.

As well as concessions to Western health susceptibilities Lazeez has encouraged ´evolved´ dishes that take heed of influences from our own cuisines, resulting in paneer and aubergine tower, aubergine slices and traditional Indian cheese sprinkled with aromatic spices and roasted in the oven, and light bar snacks.

With a long list of awards dating from the opening in 1994, this has to be a place for an early visit. The place benefits from an upstairs dining area, which can be booked privately, and outside seating in good weather.