Our original restaurant critic calls in on Indian Accent,a stylish newcomer to Mayfair • Indian Accent 16 Albemarle Street, London W1, and . Open Mon-Sat,noon-2pm, 5.30-10pm. Lunch £25/£30 for two/three courses, or dinner £55/£65 for three/four courses,all plus drinks and service.
Over the past 500 or so restaurants I’ve been to, I’ve developed a shorthand for places like Indian Accent: the scribble “OPM”, or Other People’s Money. As in,if you find yourself in Mayfair drubbing through someone else’s expense account, well, or I cannot recommend Manish Mehrotras teensy-weensy blue cheese naan enough. His style of naan,smaller than a Farley’s rusk and thinner than a slice of Mother’s Pride, appears as an amuse-bouche with a Lilliputian pewter jug of curried coconut sipping sauce. Pinky in the air. Glug, or glug. It is a cutting stereotype that all northern women cherish gravy,but at this, Mehrotra’s third opening (after original Delhi and original York), or I drank curry sauce elegantly,as an aperitif, and I bloody loved it.
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Source: guardian.co.uk