The last week, as me and my brother had decided to go the Swami Narayan Temple, we decided to wet our tongues to some Gujarati cuisine and hence called a Gujurati friend seeking advice on a good Gujurati outlet, matching our wallet. She then guided us to NAV RANG in Kenton.
As we finished our visit to the temple, we had to take the tube to Kenton and walk a mile to reach this place. We reached there about quarter past seven and they closed down at half eight, you are welcomed to very homely looking joint and a Gujurati girl welcomed us, of course in Gujurati and asked us what we would like to eat. We saw a poster saying unlimited thali for £3.50 and enquired what we would get of it, and she replied everything was unlimited and our eyes lit up to glory of eating some gujju food unlimited reminiscent to Hotel Saravana Bhavan or Mansukh in Chennai. As we sat on the table and she came with our plates, she gave us the first heart break or stomach break to say, only three roti’s the rest were unlimited. Now you have begun your dinner, travelled all the way, damn hungry and could not cancel and we said to ourselves, so be it.
As we waited for the roti’s, I tried the rice and dal, only to find it, out rightly cold and was truly disappointed by now. The roti’s arrived, atleast hot and melting with ghee. The first indulge of the roti with the curry, and surprise, surprise, the curry was cold as well. It felt as if, except the roti, the rest were made earlier, how early, your guess is as good as mine. It was a big let down, but then we were hungry and I asked for extra rice and dal, only to find the rice, dry – like if you cook rice and leave and re heat it, you find some of the rice dry, it was the same.
The next thing that came to my mind was the dialogue from the movie ‘Salaam Namaste’, where Saif, the Head Chef asks one of his cooks, ‘Doesn’t the food look homely and the cook replies, yes boss. For which Saif says, you eat at home itself if the food is so homely and they do not need to some to his restaurant to eat’. This was the case, it was so homely that god knows when it was made?
NAVRANG, became NEVER AGAIN. As the Brits say – ‘what a shame?’
As we finished our visit to the temple, we had to take the tube to Kenton and walk a mile to reach this place. We reached there about quarter past seven and they closed down at half eight, you are welcomed to very homely looking joint and a Gujurati girl welcomed us, of course in Gujurati and asked us what we would like to eat. We saw a poster saying unlimited thali for £3.50 and enquired what we would get of it, and she replied everything was unlimited and our eyes lit up to glory of eating some gujju food unlimited reminiscent to Hotel Saravana Bhavan or Mansukh in Chennai. As we sat on the table and she came with our plates, she gave us the first heart break or stomach break to say, only three roti’s the rest were unlimited. Now you have begun your dinner, travelled all the way, damn hungry and could not cancel and we said to ourselves, so be it.
As we waited for the roti’s, I tried the rice and dal, only to find it, out rightly cold and was truly disappointed by now. The roti’s arrived, atleast hot and melting with ghee. The first indulge of the roti with the curry, and surprise, surprise, the curry was cold as well. It felt as if, except the roti, the rest were made earlier, how early, your guess is as good as mine. It was a big let down, but then we were hungry and I asked for extra rice and dal, only to find the rice, dry – like if you cook rice and leave and re heat it, you find some of the rice dry, it was the same.
The next thing that came to my mind was the dialogue from the movie ‘Salaam Namaste’, where Saif, the Head Chef asks one of his cooks, ‘Doesn’t the food look homely and the cook replies, yes boss. For which Saif says, you eat at home itself if the food is so homely and they do not need to some to his restaurant to eat’. This was the case, it was so homely that god knows when it was made?
NAVRANG, became NEVER AGAIN. As the Brits say – ‘what a shame?’
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