We were only discussing that in the last couple of months a lot of curry is getting bland - someone said "Some of this stuff takes just like last month's so..." action was required.
The solution : we popped in to the Guardsman's Inn in Maidenhead on Oldfield Road which boast a fabulous back room bar and better still a ex-Gurhka chef... Who apparently prepares a fabulous Nepalese curry … we tried a special arrangement. Set price curry with a selection of starters and choice of three currys.… Lamb, Beef and Chicken.
The starters were a Nepalese potato dish and Nepalese Bhajis and some vegetables - with a small order of very spicy red salsa style sauce. The starters were excellent.
The mains were excellent - the beef was voted most popular, closely followed chicken but the lamb curry was a bit bland. Overall jolly good and politely served by a proud Gurhka who was attentive and seemed very anxious to please. Which was frankly very endearing.
Seating arrangement was a little weird in being in two groups which we altered quickly, and the banter kicked off! Wide ranging from cancer patients regrets, The Killing TV series, Definition of Dubz-Step as a genre, and whether money makes you happy. The normal stuff!
This is a great little pub with a nice attitude and ambiance and a mix or regulars and new folk a well kept a pint, friendly and not without a nice military charm. Nice for a drink let alone a curry....
Voting this month was influenced by a definite warmth to ex-Service men, but the food was good and perhaps more importantly it was different from our normal fayre -but scoring puts curry house in to our top restaurants - at number 12.
Would we go back - YES! And probably let the chef go mad in his choices.
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