The Mughal’s

OMG my team wanted to go to lunch with me. So pressure was on to find somewhere that might impress, and I chose The Mughal’s.

Well, a third of my team came anyway.

The Mughal’s is a modest-sized Indian restaurant on the imaginatively-named London Street, opposite Paddington Station.

Alas, for someone who finds it hard to choose, the length of the menu is pretty insane. Starters, Tandoor dishes, chef’s recommendations, chicken delicacies, lamb delicacies, prawn specialities, king prawn delicacies, karahi dishes, balti dishes, biryani dishes and vegetarian dishes.

Oh and rice dishes, and bread dishes…I’ve probably forgotten some.

I started with the fish fry, which was really nice – I appreciated the softness of the breadcrumbs. Apparently it is coated in light Indian spices – too light for me to notice really, but I enjoyed the subtle flavours overall.

Kind of melt in your mouth, though they don’t melt in your mouth – if that makes any more sense than a Circle line timetable.

Aloo aubergine (or is it aubergine aloo) was also pleasing. The potatoes really had the sauce ingested wonderfully, the aubergines were silky in texture and softly roasted.

Again I cannot say I noted any spice, though the flavour was decent – broadly tomato-based with some hints of paprika, cumin etc.

We also had poppadom’s which I always think a waste of time – I cannot say any of the accompaniments were appealing.

Plus it was suggested to me that I needed some bread with my curry (I didn’t but I succumbed to ordering some). The butter naan would have been nice, if it wasn’t pretty burnt to the bottom.

A mixed experience, the waiter was on his own and running around like crazy, only just about keeping on top of everything, taking one person’s order then running back to the dumb waiter to server food, then taking two more of our orders, then running to do something else…chaos for him but it just about working fine for us.

Two dishes, a poppadom, naan bread and service came to £22.44, which isn’t too bad really.

Rating of 7.0 out of 10. I might come back, there’s an argument to having something from each section every time I visit and it isn’t like there is a plethora of Indian restaurants in the area.

I really wish Cawnpore was still open at lunchtime.