Name: Kabana
Type: Indian Restaurant
Hours: Sun - Thu: 18:00 -
01:00 Fri - Sat: 18:00 - 02:00
Location: 43 Trinity Street, Huddersfield,
HD1 4DN.
Overall Rating: 8.6/10
Review
It’s been a few weeks since I last
posted on here. Apologies, life has been has busy… eating food. Well I thought I’d
come back with a bang, something most people know about: a real man’s treat. If
you're ever deciding on a place to go eat with a large group of family or friends,
Kabana in Huddersfield is the place. It caters for everyone. There is plenty
on the menu to choose from but if you’re going to the ‘thaali’ specialists, it
would make good sense to go grab yourself a thaali (a variety of dishes served
on a large metal plate).
They have a selection of thaali’s
containing an assortment of dishes catering for 2 people to up to 8 people. Put
your order through and within 20 mins the waiters come running out carrying out
the large metal thaali steaming with the freshly cooked dishes; visually exciting
with an amazing aroma. A large selection of grilled starters (lamb chops,
chicken tikka and seekh kebabs) separated by 2 curries of your choice (chicken
tikka masala and lamb karahi), chips and lamb donner surrounded by naans and
tandoori roti’s. Yes quite a lot!
Innovative I say, it was one of the
first places I visited that served food in thaali’s/tawa’s. So what about the
food taste? Most of the starters were delicious, perfectly cooked and tender apart
from the seekh kebabs; they lacked flavour and didn't fit in well with the
other richer dishes. One of my favourite aspects of this thaali was the chicken curry;
perfection. The few times I have been there, it has always got finished
compared to the lamb curry. Yes, you've guessed right, the lamb curry was a proper let-down.
Not only did it lack flavour, it actually put me off the other dishes; what is
going on man! However the dish makes up the lost
points from the donner. I CRAVE IT NOW! It’s just special, it’s not crunchy or chewy, it’s
not thick, nor is it heavy. It’s soft, rich in flavour and light. What is this
sorcery??? If there was one reason why I’d go back to this place, I’d say the
donner. Finally the chips, well what can I say? Standard chips I guess.
So how did this place deal in my
famous critical scoring; the staff were nice enough to quickly direct us to an upstairs
prayer all when we needed to pray and set it up for us, took our order quickly
and got the food out to us on good time, a score of 10/10 was inevitable; however
the manner to which I was spoken to when I first entered was off putting; first
impressions count so a 7/10 it is. Likewise a quick examination of the toilets
and floor slammed a perfect 10/10 score for hygiene. The food looked amazing
(10/10 for appearance) and most of it tasted amazing apart from the lamb I discussed
earlier (7/10), so a nice bunch of points here too. It was however quite costly
(£13-£15 per head), but I expected that seen as though we were stuffed so a score of 8 out of 10 for the price. That brings
me on to the final point, the final marking criteria; the one that determines
everything. WAS IT MANLY ENOUGH? (the answer is in the pictures lol a 10/10).
Thanks
A Manly Man
