Innovative Indian cuisine comes of age, 200 years later

07/07/2010 19:04:41

This month marks the 200th year since Britain got its first curry house but, according to one expert, true innovation has only started to be seen in the last decade.

The Independent spoke to Vivek Singh, of London's Cinnamon Club, who said that although London's Hindostanee Coffee House first started serving Indian dishes 200 years ago, only in the last ten years have chefs started to create sophisticated dishes.

"We had long wanted to get across the fact that Indian food is gourmet, a world away from the bowls of gloopy brown mess I saw in Indian restaurants here when I arrived in the eighties," added Namita Panjabi, co-director of Masala World.

The expert added that mixing up food on a plate is not something which is done in India, yet this practice has become common place in British curry houses.

Recently, the Daily Record reported on the book which Glaswegian curry house owner Raj Bjawe released detailing his relationship with famous customers like Michael Jackson and Marty Pellow.

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