We love to eat good Indian food and when a new place
opened up in Sea Point, we headed straight there. Sadly, it was Valentine’s Day
and they were totally full, always a good sign. We finally got there recently
and wanted to tell you about it. Roti is on Regent Road, opposite the Sea Point
Post Office. It was an estate agent's premises and has now been converted into a
fairly large and airy restaurant. They do cater for large tour buses, but the
food is good and they serve authentic Indian food, not Cape Malay or Durban
curries.
The entrance,
with security
Plainly but
tastefully decorated.
Poppadoms come free with two dips when you sit down. Our
bill for 5 dishes and 2 steamed rice came to only R400 before service. We took
our own wine and were not charged corkage
We sat at the
back nearer the kitchen, as it was a very cold evening. The restaurant was
almost empty when we arrived at 7.30 but soon filled up. Service was polite,
but a little slow as a large celebratory Indian group arrived. Perhaps a good
place for an early supper.
John chose a
lamb Rogan Josh – he always orders this when first visiting, as he wants to see
how well they prepare it. This was a good one. Lynne originally fancied having an
aubergine curry, but the one they serve is a puree rather than pieces of
Aubergine. So she had a Prawn Malvani, one of their specials, which was cooked
medium hot for her, even though it is normally a 3 chilli dish. It tasted
authentic with a good thick sauce, but the prawns were very small and sparse for
the R130 charged. We had this with a small bowl of steamed rice
Our vegetarian
friends had an Aloo Mint Tikki (potato and pea fritters) as a starter, the
Aubergine curry and a Dhingri Dolma (mushrooms and paneer) with steamed rice. Ronnie
goes there often for lunch and is working his way through the fish and
vegetarian menu.
We had not
intended to have dessert, but they had cooked a huge quantity of cardamom rice
pudding for the wedding party and they very kindly gave us each a bowl of it.
Not to everyone’s taste, John still has bad memories of boarding school rice
pudding but the rest of us enjoyed it very much. Not too sweet, creamy and
beautifully fragrant from the cardamom spice
© John &
Lynne Ford, Adamastor & Bacchus 2014
No comments:
Post a Comment