Naz Balti Review
It was with heavy hearts
that we approached the Naz restaurant to undertake our last review in Church
Street. Given the poor showing of the other two restaurants in our earlier
reviews, we were not hopeful that this would be a good dining experience.
However, our pessimism
started to lift with the arrival of the poppadoms, appropriately crisp and with
a good selection of pickles, and the price of the beer – Kingfisher at £3.75
pint and Cobra in large bottles at £4.35 per bottle, helped to relieve our gloom.
It was a Wednesday night and with a special offer on thali – two of us had the
non-vegetarian and a third the vegetarian thali. The other two in our party
plumped for their normal selections: chicken Jalfrezi and chicken dansak, together
with side vegetables – sag aloo and bindi. The thalis, both vegetarian and meat
versions were excellent and good value for money at £8.95.There were six separate
pots of vegetable or meat dishes, together with naan and rice. They appeared to
be freshly prepared and were of good quality and variety. The dansak and
jalfrezi dishes were good but both under-strength in terms of spiciness. The
vegetable dishes were ample and better than average.
Overall, we found that
despite our misgivings the Naz warranted its positioning at fourth in our
reckoning of the ten Twickenham (one overseas!) curry houses we have reviewed
to date. It’s a shame that its external appearance and internal décor is
little different from that of its neighbour the Dehli Durbar. Notwithstanding this, it is by far the
best curry house in the highly popular Church Street dining destination.
We
scored the Naz Balti as follows:
Price:
7.5
Service: 6.9
Quality: 7.5
Ambiance: 6.5
Total: 28.4
10th October 2012
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