4th September 2007
Surreal place
I almost never venture into East London so it's taken me a while to try this place out that my ex's dad always raves about. Bear in mind, this same person has taken me to Petrus and any fairly expensive places I've reviewed! I was so confused when I got there, there's a few lahores around commercial road and I wasn't sure we had the right one but apparently we had.
We walked in to a pretty run-down looking place. It looks like a cross between a takeaway kebab place, a cafe and a restaurant. There were mirrors along one side of the wall, the kitchen at the back and seating for about 15 people. Generally, somewhere you wouldn't really think twice about when you walk past it.
I looked at the menu and was so surprised at how cheap some of it was. You can get a piece of sheek kebab for 70p!! We tried the sheek kebab, chicken tikka (6 pieces), lamb biryani, saag aloo and keema naan. The rice in the lamb biryani was a bit bland on its own but when eaten with the lamb, it gave you the most complex flavours going around in your mouth.
The keema naan was different to how you normally get it. It was a lot more crispy and I've been told it's more authentic this way. The chicken tikka was good, decent sized pieces but pretty spicy and the saag aloo was acceptable. I saw someone have the karahai chicken which looked really good so I'll go for that next time.
The meal was really cheap. I saw a poster on the wall saying they'll give a free t-shirt out for orders over 20 and we didn't manage to make it! Haha. It only came to 16 (including 2 bottles of water) I think.
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