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survey result

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£103
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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Delicious and quite unusual dishes” help win praise for Atul Kocchar’s Mayfair five-year-old, which is “handy to know about just off the West End’s main shopping streets”. Even fans, though, feel that the prices for some items are a bit “ridiculous”.

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£101
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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

Atul Kochhar’s “inventive” Northeastern Indian cuisine (“light and not too rich”) continues to win a strong fanclub for this well regarded four-year-old in Mayfair. It would rate even higher, were it not for a few reporters for whom “it’s sound all around but just not that next-level I’d expect at the price point”.

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£95
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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Love Atul Kochhar’s cooking” (focused on dishes from India's northeastern ‘Sister States’) say fans of his three-year-old, who award “five stars all the way” for “incredible meals, with levels of spice and heat like nothing else I’ve experienced”. The interior design is not everyone’s idea of a “posh Indian”, however, and – more significantly – ratings are undercut by those who feel culinary results are “below expectations for such a talented chef”, or alternatively feel that “it’s very nice, but my word, the prices…”.

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* Based on a three course dinner, half a bottle of wine, coffee, cover charge, service and VAT.

“Off to a great start”, with “superb” cuisine, say fans of Atul Kochhar’s “upmarket” (and sizeable: 130 covers) new venture on a site that was previously the Mayfair branch of 28:50 (RIP), and which specialises in the “strongly flavoured”, relatively undiscovered cuisine of India’s north-eastern states (bordering Tibet and China). It’s “not cheap” however, and while “some star dishes” are reported “some of the rest are a little more forgettable”, while the interior design is “relaxing and warm” to some tastes, but – to others – can appear “cold” or “incoherent”.

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17-19 Maddox Street, London, W1S 2QH

Restaurant details

No dress code

Prices

  Cost Availability Courses
Menu1 95.00 Always available  

Starter Main Veggies Pudding
£6.00 £33.00 £12.00 £12.00
Drinks  
Wine per bottle £45.00
Filter Coffee £6.00
Extras  
Bread £5.00
Service 15.00%
17-19 Maddox Street, London, W1S 2QH
Opening hours
MondayCLOSED
Tuesday12 pm‑2:30 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Wednesday12 pm‑2:30 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Thursday12 pm‑2:30 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Friday12 pm‑2:30 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Saturday11:30 am‑2:30 pm, 5 pm‑10 pm
Sunday11:30 am‑3 pm, 5 pm‑9 pm

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