The Quilon Restaurant & Bar is situated in the Crowne Plaza St James Hotel behind Buckingham Palace and is ideally located for the local West End theatre, the City, Soho and Mayfair. It serves coastal Indian cuisine in the form of modern healthy dishes. The design and colours of the interior have been drawn from Quilon in India, which inspired the name of the restaurant.
I have been meaning to test out Quilon restaurant for a while and got the chance last night. It has a reputation for being a posh Indian and I think that is pretty much spot on.
I had a delicious lobster curry (that's a first for me), an excellent 2 aubergine curry (mushed/ spicey and slice roasted) and a satisfyingly tasty chick pea curry. Top drawer. There were also plenty of other things on the menu that I was itching to try....for example the seafood curry broth appetizer (sounds intriguing).
A nice touch was the unusual amuse bouche of a glass of vegetable or chick pea curry soup - which was more palatable than it sounds and is certainly the first amuse bouche I have ever been offered in an Indian restaurant.
The service was excellent but perhaps the only slightly disappointing thing is the rather cheesy 80's style decor, I was expecting something with a little more atmosphere and pucca-ness - esp for the price. It is certainly not cheap but as I understand it, a very popular and well known spot in Westminster.
It's unusual to find fish curry in the UK but it's what's made The Quilon famous.
Located at 41 Buckingham Gate, Victoria (and looking quite smart inside and out) we took a table for three and started with a spicy masala tea - really nice.
I had prawn poona (£6.50 surcharge) with nan and some yellow nut rice. The prawns tasted great but one of the four turned out to be a disguised piece of fish (it tasted fine though). So £2 surcharge per prawn seemed a bit steep to me but I've no compaints about the taste.
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