Image from Saffron Walden, Nov 2024: John is still sporting that pork pie hat
When Janie and I went, in February, for the first time in a while, to the Finborough theatre…
…we were delighted to see that, at last, what had been a deserted space underneath the theatre, formerly the Finborough Arms, had been revived and reopened as a rather sprauncy-looking Indian Restaurant; Yogi’s Kensington.
We popped in, took a look around, smelt the mouth-watering smells – such an improvement on the stale chip fat smell that had been the Finborough Arms kitchen’s trademark smell for some while before that place closed down – and even picked up a menu for future reference.
Anyway, I thought this place sounded right up John’s street. It was my turn to choose and John leapt at the idea when he looked at the menu on-line. Simples.
Here’s what we ate – the first two dishes being starters to share:
- Hot Garlic Honey Fish – Honey glazed spicy, tangy fish with bold garlic chili flavors.
- Chicken 65 – Chennai-style marinated juliennes of chicken, mild Smoked chilli sauce, curry leaves
- Lasooni Methi Lamb – cooked in fresh fenugreek, garlic with special indian spice
- Goan Curry Prawns – cooked in fresh coconut with authentic kokan spice
- Dal Makhani – Slow cooked black lentils with red kidney beans
- Saffron Pilaf Rice – Fregnante rice cooked with saffron
- Plain Naan
Washed down with some beer (in John’s case) followed by wine by the glass in both of our cases.
Every dish was delicious.
So absorbed were we in our conversations and delight in the food, we both forgot to take food porn photos – that’s twice in a row we’ve dined without photos.
Never mind.
Want to know what Dal Makhani looks like? – Here’s a lovely picture of same from Wikimedia Commons thanks to Soumendra Kumar Sahoo, who knows how to make…or at least how to photograph…the stuff.
As always, it was great to get together with John. We didn’t quite solve all the world’s problems this time, so I guess we should get together again quite soon and have another go at the problems…or at least have another fine meal together.
We fell in love with daal makhani when we in India, but always found it hard to get well made outside of the country. The one in your picture looks like the real deal, as was a dish of it we had last week in Krakow! Who knew? Yum!!