Inventive flavours with an Indian accent
Forget your usual watering holes... Flavours? Diva? Smokehouse Grill? There's a new wine-loving restaurant in Delhi. Hotfoot your way to the Manor Hotel and discover Indian Accent. It's time to move on and experiment with wine and Indian food, writes Reva Singh.
I was fortunate to get a preview at a dinner when well-known British wine critic and author, Charles Metcalfe, who designed the restaurant's wine list, was in town. An ebullient, colourful personality, Metcalfe sang snatches of Opera to introduce each wine.
The cuisine is inventive and full of surprises but the wines Metcalfe selected for us that night were sensibly within the pale, commencing with Gunderloch Riesling Trocken, Rheinhessen 2006 with the Five Waters Puchkas and Masala Cous Cous starter and ending with a delicious Oremus Furmint, Late Harvest 2005, Tokaji from Hungary, which was all the dessert I wanted.
I suggest you sample for yourself Charles Metcalfe's wine selection and Chef Manish Mehrotra's menu. Chef Mehrotra is the culinary genie behind Oriental Octopus and the pan Asian kitchens at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, not to mention, Tamarai, London, which quickly won rave reviews from critics and diners alike as "The Best Late Night Bar in UK" soon after it opened.
Indian Accent bar and restaurant has an elegantly understated ambience with 44 covers indoors and 12 in the verandah.
How to get there
Indian Accent
Fine dining restaurant and bar
The Manor
77 Friends Colony (West)
New Delhi 110065.
Tel: +91 11 26922299
Email: info@themanordelhi
Average meal per head: Lunch Rs 900; Dinner Rs 1400 + taxes (excluding beverages)
