Jaipur - Aug 2009

Summary

After a few ‘warmers’ in the old favourite, Weatherspoons, we strolled over to the impressive Jaipur building, already an MK landmark and rightly so.

 

As always, the restaurant was spotless and the staff polite and immaculate in their colourful uniforms. Then came the first shock, it was virtually empty (recession?), then the second, a new and small menu which doesn’t have the traditional categories, e.g. Madras, Balti, etc, or even the regular lamb and chicken, but just a list of meals available. This is unusual, not saying its wrong, but it was even difficult to represent on the common curry as some items just weren’t there! In fact I was so busy trying to match items from the menu that the waiter didn’t take my main course order. My fault or his?

 

The food was very well cooked and presented. The Salmon Dillwala starter is highly recommended as are the lamb chops, both getting top marks. The main courses were also above average, very tasty, well served and using different cuts of meat, e.g. Lamb shank, which is also a very pleasant change. The rice and nan bread, however, were only average.

 

The chef did us the honour of visiting the table and providing three ‘taster’ dishes - excellent service and an impressive touch.

 

Our vegetarian member found the menu strange but very tasty with large, filling portions.

 

In summary, the Jaipur is a very classy restaurant providing very high quality food, service and surroundings - this is reflected in the scores, the highest this year. However, the new menu is limited and it is expensive. Take it for what it is, a great venue to impress business associates over a quality lunch or visitors for the evening, not somewhere to go regularly for the best value for money.

 

Common Curry - Very difficult to get a 'common curry' price due to its unusually named dishes. Great quality but very expensive, you pay a lot more without getting that much more quality, quantity or choice that you can get from several of our other recommended restaurants.

 

Web site - www.jaipur.co.uk

 

Other Comments

Positive:

• A nice welcome on arrival
• Very good service but on the slow side
• Food presented very well
• A cut above the norm in MK if you want to pay for it
• Fish starter, tender, moist and good size
• Garlic chicken tender and good flavour but not two chilli heat

 

Negative:

• New menu does not provide the old favourites
• Lack of atmosphere in the restaurant
• Ordering took too long
• Failed to take one members (the chairman’s) main course order
• A Brinjal Bhaji was ordered but not delivered
• No table heaters

 

 

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