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Café
India, one of Glasgow's most celebrated Indian restaurants which
earlier this year relocated to the heart of the Merchant City
following a fire which devastated its renowned Charing Cross
premises, will launch a new Desi Sunday menu on 23rd September,
bringing a welcome South Asian flavour to the Merchant City Festival.
The term
'desi' literally means 'local, regional' or 'indigenous', as opposed
to 'videshi' meaning 'foreign', and is used to refer to people or
things of South Asian origin. As such, Café India's Desi
Sunday will feature traditional, authentic Indian cuisine served by
waiters wearing traditional Indian dress to the sound of traditional
Indian music.
Cammy Darar,
operations director at Café India, said, "The thinking
behind the introduction of Desi Sunday is to give diners a flavour of
authentic India by offering them a selection of traditional Indian
cuisine, the preparation of which they are welcome to observe in our
state-of-the-art theatre-style kitchen, together with a flavour of
Indian culture, through performances by Indian dancers and musicians,
as well as displays of traditional jewellery and henna body art."
Desi Sunday
diners can choose their favourite dishes from a tempting menu
featuring such delicious starters as chicken mailai tikka - bite
sized chicken tikka marinated with cream, cheese, shahi jeera and
cardamom, cooked on the charcoal grill - and fish armitsari, garlic
and carom seeds laced cod fillets deep fried in gram flour batter.
The Desi
Sunday mains menu, meanwhile, includes North Indian garlic chilli
chicken - barbecued chicken pieces cooked in fresh garlic and chilli
sauce with caramelised onions - and dum ki biryani, choice cuts of
lamb and basmati rice cooked on dum with saffron, cardamom, mace and
mint.
Desserts
include Rassomalai - a traditional Indian dessert made from homemade
dumplings soaked in sweetened milk, delicately flavoured with
cardamon and rosewater - and gulab jaman, a classic dessert from
North India, deep fried milk balls soaked in sugar syrup, served
warm.
Following the
launch on Sunday 23rd September, the aim is for the new Desi Sunday
to become a regular weekly feature at Café India.
Cafe India
Glasgow, 29 Albion Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, G1 1LH.
The sixth
Merchant City Festival runs from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 September.
The Festival attracts more than 40,000 people over the four day bank
holiday weekend to an exciting programme of theatre, music, fashion,
visual art, film and comedy with over 200 performances, many free of
charge that span over 50 venues in Glasgow's architecturally stunning
cultural quarter.
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