Sahib Sindh Sultan

Koramangala, Bangalore

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Here comes the train and the restaurant named by 3 engines of first train of India between Bori Bander and Thane: Sahib, Sindh and Sultan. A restaurant is in tribute to the first journey which leaded to the biggest government organization ever Indian railways. Don’t you worry the restaurant is nothing like the Indian railways, platforms or the present trains! It is about the royal style of British Raj and the big locomotives howling the first train on Indian land in 1853.

Ultimate retro setup of the restaurant includes a Pullman style carriage, lower levels where you can dine in leather lined cosiness. Feels like a platform and a train while the mirrors help in making the effects real life. Plush carpet, antique lamps, gleaming woodwork and fine tableware (and glasses) adds to the amazing interiors and elegance.

This classy place is created and is featured to you by the showman P.B. Nichani. Have you ever had sound effects in a restaurant to believe in the setup yeah you get it here the occasional railway announcements and clanging station bells.

Now comes the purpose to get into this place and that is EAT! To start with you can have pineapple panna, Thandai or Sandalwood Sarbat. For ver starters you can have the unique and delicious Aag Gaadi (roasted mushrooms and morels) also paneer and corn seekh kebabs. For non veggies great variety of crabcake crusted with red chilli, fish tikka or grilled quail. And to have a showy dish then have the “Thompson’s atta chicken” which is marinated then wrapped in a banana leaf and then in a dough case and applied with slow cooking. This package is opened at the table so the rich aroma speaks out loud “EAT ME”.

Now leaving the platform we get on the gravy train of main course. Veggies have options to choose from kubhani ka kofta, pista, cashew and almonds in gravy and superb rajma. Meat lovers can have lobsters stewed in tomatoes and pomegranate juice, scrambled crabmeat, classic mutton curry and more. Bread choices can be bran roti or wholegrain ones. For biryani nawabs you can have Hyderabadi dum biryani, and also amritsari wadi with aloo and paraatwali murg biryani with the great side dish of tadka dahi.

For those who cannot live without a dessert they can have gulab jamun, lychees immersed in rabri, apple and walnut phirni and a great pineapple halwa.

Royal and majestic culinary journey through time while you dine is the summary of my review. Great place must visit such places at least once and feel the magic of the golden years when India was called as a Golden Bird and the first trains pumped up dreams in the eyes of all Indians. Dream to travel and go places. And to eat for sure cause that is the primary aim of the place to make your stomach full.

Niranjan Bendre

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