The Tamarind restaurant is an
Indian restaurant
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in
Mayfair, London
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, opened in 1995. It won a
Michelin
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star in 2001, the first Indian restaurant to do so.
The
Tatler
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describes it as beautiful, "sophisticated, lively and oddly romantic", and as suitable for clinching a business deal as a grand Sunday lunch or a lover's "light supper".
[ The ]Michelin Guide
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calls the cuisine "appealing northern Indian food" and "of great finesse". Jonathan Gold, in the ''Los Angeles Times
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'', wrote that he had been impressed by its "frank attempt to produce Indian food with the sheen and polish of white-tablecloth European cuisine", though he chiefly recalled "the wine list, the flowers, and the cost."
See also
* English cuisine
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References
External links
Website
Indian restaurants in London
Michelin Guide starred restaurants in the United Kingdom
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