Results tagged “spices”

Is your London based curry experience one of being conscripted with the offer of free beer and poppadoms, only to be faced with some sloppy, indeterminable "meat" masked in overly (or under-ly) heated and suspiciously pigmented sauce, served with a naan bread you could more easily sleep under than digest, and naff music which says in your ears longer than the ensuing indigestion stays in your stomach? Well leave these misconceptions at the very elegant door to Covent Garden's Moti Mahal , and prepare to learn a little about the cuisine, its history and the possibilities it possesses. It's impossible to look at a lamb kebab the same way again, and there's not a Bollywood video or illuminated waterfall in sight. more ›

People may have scoffed at a gaggle of underdressed girls wiggling their glutes and calling it Girl Power, but twelve years after invoking ladies to "slam their bodies down and wind them all around", Emma Bunton has finally done Emmeline Pankhurst proud: she's bankrolling her husband's latest project, a new London-based restaurant. Pressed for details, the old Spice confessed: "We don't know where or when yet". We propose the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, where the Girls first brought the ruckus, as the perfect scene for mischief of a more culinary kind. more ›