Bombay Palace

WHY GO

Dine on exquisite North Indian fare at this Moghul-themed restaurant that will leave you feeling like an emperor.

WHAT TO ORDER

Start your meal with the chilli pakoras — deep-fried green chillies stuffed with mashed potatoes and coated with a chickpea batter. Mild with just a touch of heat, this is the perfect dish to start the meal.

The Palace Sizzler is a hot plate piled up high with fish tikka, tandoori chicken, jumbo prawns and two types of kebabs. This smorgasbord of meats and seafood is moist, tender and grilled just right, flavoured with a deep red spice mix and accented with a squeeze of lime juice.

The murgh tikka masala is made up of charbroiled chicken meat simmered in tomato gravy while the baldi gosht has tender pieces of lamb cooked in a spicy sauce resplendent with Indian spices. The ubiquitous palak paneer (Indian cottage cheese in a spinach gravy) helps temper the spice and heat of the other dishes.

The star of the show, however, is the Navratna biryani. This vegetarian rice dish is so amazingly good, you could just eat it by itself! The rice is cooked to perfection in the ‘dum’ style and subtly flavoured with a selection of spices that allow the taste of the aged rice to shine. Truly divine!