Affordable Indian meal at Suruchi Indian restaurant

 

Welcome sign. Double doors to stop draughts. White tablecloths and napkins.

Naan or peshwari naan or rice included in the set meal.

Chicken dish in sauce.

A foil wrapped chocolate for each diner sweetened the presentation of the bill. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

A friend of mine lives near his favourite, regular Indian restaurant, Suruchi, which he visits most months. He recommends it every year to our wine and dine group. We look for a different BYO restaurant for a group meal every month.

We took the 73 bus from Euston station. The stop was across the road, only a couple of minutes from the restaurant.

On a Tuesday night we had a special deal. Just under twenty pounds for a starter, main course, rice or bread and a side dish. 

No Corkage

Bring your own bottle of wine, no corkage. If one of the group forgets to contribute a bottle, a convenience store is nearby offering a bottle of French or New Zealand wine.

No service charge. So you might leave ten per cent or more.

Suruchi Restaurant

Newington Green Road

You can order from Uber Eats if you live within 3 to 5 miles. The limit for delivery services is 10 miles because food takes long to arrive, will arrive cold, charges per mile are too high, and bikers won't go so far. Alternatively you can order an Indian meal from nearer home and go to Suruchi when you have time to travel there.

Suruchi Indian Restaurant Websites

https://www.suruchi.uk.com/

https://order.suruchi.uk.com/

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Bargain Tuesday at Suruchi Indian restaurant - extraordinary value!

Indian Restaurant, Suruch. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
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Suruchi means happiness and that is what we felt at this Indian restaurant in London. Near Canonbury station.\

Pleasing Price

Firstly the price. On Tuesday, twenty pounds a person. (Minus 5 pence. Price in May 2024. Service/tip not added but optional.)

Decor

Suruchi tables with cloths. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The placec is small but the decor is delightful Big orange and multicolour paintings.  Up comes

Candle on the tables. The man in charge immaculately dressesd. White cloths on the tables and white cloth apkins.

Drinks

I splurged an extra fiver on a mango lassi. 

We brought bottles of wine to match Indian food tne the restaurant supplied glasses. 

Unlike many places which offer liited choice in set meals, you seen to be able to order anything from the relevant section.

The setup for the bargain evening is you can order one starter, one main dish, a side of vegetabels, rice or naan, and that includes peshwari naan, my favourite.

Starter

I opted for a mied mea auderves.  Filling and good value.(My husband's choice was not as good.)

Main Courses

Candle, my pehswari naan, shared and swapped for half my husband's rice. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Starters - Success, and Surprise

I enjoyed a mixed starter of meats.

Starter Warning \

My husband mistook bhel-poori, for poori. Pur or poori is a fist size iece of puffed bread like a aquahsed balloon, in which you place your suced or dips and food. But bhel-poori is puffed rice, tiny pieces, praswn size of ovel bits. I didn't like them and neighteh did my husband.  

I oped for chicken korma,which a creamy sauce. And a peshwaaari naan with a filling. My favourite. Instead of rice.

My side dish was aubergine, to make a change. (I usually have potato and spinach, aloo gobi, in Indian restaurants. The aubergine was chopped into dice sized piece. It did the trick.

No Desserts\

They don't serve desserts, which is probably good for my teeth.

Charming Chocolates

 But the meal does end on a sewwe not with a chocolate for each person in a gold foil wwrapper and white encasing. It tastes of chocolate orange.

We looked for a place for dessert and coffee on our way back to the station but passed. Just as well.

Leftovers Wrapped

No problem asking for food to be wrapped. A tin foil box appeared on the table for us to spoon in our leftovers thad the staff members helped. Up comes a plastic bag to hold the alinium box.

The toilet is on the ground floor. Small but adequate. Not sure how somebody three dress sizes larger than me would get past the door and basin. Just as well there was no dessert. After my meal, my loose skirt fits me like a glove.

I hope to go back. If I lived in the area, this would be my regular. My friends go there every Tuesday.

My husband sumarized, "For ninetten ninety nine we had a fest and soe leftovers.Extraordinry good value."

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Nalan Vegetarian Restaurant - for Masala Dosai, and Biriani and Mango Lassi

I had asked my Indian friend for a restaurant which served Masala Dosai. the restaurant chosen was vegetarian. I had not realised that masala disai is a south Indian specility and usually to be found in vegetarian restaurants. Ok, fine by me, but not by my spouse notr the spouse of the orgnaizing host.

Nalan, hower is a find. It feels spacious, not so crowded as all those restaurants in Little India, some of which feel like an Indian reailway station, cramped, crowded and rushed.  Sometimes they overwhelm you with turbans and sarees so you feel like an outsider if you are Asian Chinese or European or mixed race expat and not in your most ethnic clothes.

The atmosphere of Nalan is relaxed and just right.

Nalan restaurant in Singapore is easy to reach, at central City Hall MRT station. However, it is hard to find. Cross the road to the large semicircular theatre complex with the empy plaza in front.  Take the right hand entrance and go downstairs. You find jumping small foundtains illuminated in green lights. At the back of the Nalan restaurant is a request to go to the front. They don't explain that you go clockwise, past another restaurant alongside, to get to their front entrance.

Menu
Dosais are hug pancakes. Freshly cooked, they are often too crispy. Add the condiments and they turn into a thin pancake. Confusingly, local Singaoreans describe this difference as we, whilst I from the UK would call it moist.

The menu choices include thalis and a biriani thali if you can't make up your mind. The biriani thali which I had includes rice, potato and a puffed up hollow semi-crispy bread, a bit like a squashed balloon. It included one tiny portion of gulub jaman, my favourite dessert.

Avoid The Ginger Tea
It is just what I did not want, tea with added ginger, tasting of tea, no ginger. I though it would be lemon tea.

I complained, not once, but about five times. The manager conceded to add some ginger. I went to see them make it. The maker was adding something thugh a sieve. It made no difference to the taste.

I wanted tea made with water and ginger, not tea with added ginder. If I ordered lemon I would not want tea with the addiiton of grains of lemon flavour. I would want a piece of fresh lemon floating in tea.

The manager would not replace it or take off the price from the bill.

So, in my opinion, go for the food, and have drinks somewhere else.

Author
Angela Lansbury