Shahana Restaurant – Tooting

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• CURRYBOND

  We make our way to our slightly delayed trip to Shahana, our curry leg venue. It’s located in prime position on Tooting High Street and opposite the disappointments of our last mega CURRYBOND.We’re welcomed in and take a seat at a table for four, unfortunately we don’t even fill that! On the plus side, we looking forward to being served before bedtime. Our venue rocks the cafeteria style with counter, metal tables and TV’s on mute. The tables fill up enough to give a lively atmosphere, not bad for the canteen genre of restaurant.Venue score – 6/10.You would think after eating at 21 curry restaurants within 15 minutes walk of each other we’re unlikely to find anything new or surprising. Think again! It’s time for a buffet! That’s right for just 9.99 you can help yourself to an unlimited curry feast at Shahana. Two of us take up the challenge. Jobbers however is somewhat sceptical, and opts for some of the traditional curry fare still available from the menu.The buffet offers starters, mains, sides and dessert. Naturally, we take the opportunity to try pretty much everything on offer. There are bhajis, samosas, chicken wings and kebabs along side popadoms and huge vats of chutneys to dish out. Everything is pretty tasty, the kebabs in particular and meaty and nicely spiced. The bhaji’s are delicious, still crunchy enough and really moorish. Bhaji score 8/10. The samosas suffer from the typical buffet sog, and lack the fresh crunch you would hope for.We make our way further down the buffet corridor and load up the mains. The variety is fairly limited with chicken and meat (we assume lamb) Karahis, a couple of Biryanis, Saag Aloo, Lahori Chana and Paya, which is helpfully translated as simply, trotters…we skip over the Paya… Jobbers goes for his ever faithful curry yardstick, Chicken Jalfrezi. The buffet is by-and-large, delicious. The curries are a little greasy but underneath the gee sits curry glee. They’re deep in flavour, not too spicy and soaked up well by the variety of biryanis. Jobbers however is not so happy, his Jalfrezi arrives quickly…a bit too Uncle Ben’s-microwaved-sauce quickly…It’s exceedingly red and exceedingly sweet, not at all resembling the Jalfrezi Jobbers knows and loves. The lesson therefore holds true, if there’s a thing a curry restaurant does, get that thing, not the other stuff, the other stuff is other stuff for a reason.Food score – 6.7/10.With the aid of limited attendance and a buffet, we wrap the curry leg up by 8pm. The bill comes in at 32.90 which make a pretty bagainous 10.97/CRRYBONDer. I should, add this is another dry venue, lassies and fizzy drinks were the drinks of choice.Value Score – 7/10.So an enjoyable, if intimate, curry leg was had by all. Our first CURRYBOND buffet was a success, and if you need a quick curry fix, Shahana is a great budget option. Overall Score – 6.5/10

  February 13, 2017, 4:16 pm

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