Chef Vineet Bhatia by Ronbhat24, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
We didn’t often go to seriously fashionable restaurants with Kim & Micky. Kim is vegetarian and tends to order “plain” more or less wherever we go. But Kim is partial to Indian food and this Chelsea place, under big name chef Vineet Bhatia, was making media waves by gaining a Michelin Star.
Just imagine – an Indian restaurant with a Michelin Star! Well, in 2001, it was unusual – indeed I think a first.
In those days Zaika was in Chelsea – so all those readers who are screaming at their screens that Kensington and Chelsea are not the same place…stop screaming. Zaika moved to Kensington a year or so after our visit.
This was, actually, a very memorable meal and memorable evening. The food was exceptionally good, as was the ambiance and everything about the experience.
All four of us were on good form. Whether that was down to Vineet’s skills or not I cannot say. We could all four be on good form without eating at a place of Zaika’s quality.
Here’s a review of the place from the Observer a few weeks before our visit. Reading it has made me feel hungry!
Zaika Flett Observer 11 Feb 2001 The Observer (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com