Excellent customer service, lovely ambience and a rare combination of south and north Indian cuisine awaits you at the Signature Restaurant.

Enjoy a relaxing drink at the bar – the chilled Cobra Indian beer is highly recommended – before dining in the immaculately presented restaurant.

Having been open since February, Signature Restaurant boasts something different from Indian cuisine to tackle your taste buds. The restaurant boasts an excellent variety on the menu, a take-away service and a special Sunday lunch buffet.

Whilst deliberating over the extensive menu we enjoyed poppadoms with a selection of dips. To start with it was recommended that we try the ghee roast, which is crispy pan-cake roasted in clarified butter and filled with potato masala and erachi olathiyathu (fried mutton), a delightful lamb dish cooked with five spices and served with onions and tomatoes – full of flavour and nice and spicy.

To follow with our main course we savoured the king prawn masala, cooked in aromatic spicy gravy. This was a accompanied by a delightful chicken malabar, cooked with spices, fresh coconut milk and tomatoes in a delicious creamy sauce, with vegetable rice and sweet mango, cooked fresh coconut with yoghurt and green chillies and finally finished off with some tasty onion bhajis.

To accompany a truly superb meal with excellent attention to details we enjoyed the house white wine – a 2003 Chardonnay which I would highly recommend.

The Signature Restaurant is an exquisite place to dine and enjoy the rare combination of dishes. Their commitment to looking after customer will ensure that you want to return again and again.

You can find the Signature Restaurant at 12-20 Lascelles Terrace, open Monday-Sunday 12-3pm and 6-11pm. It’s a great place for theatre-goers to dine before of after a show. Telephone 722056 for bookings.

Gazette, Wednesday, October 11, 2006