Rajkot

Rajkot - Indian tapas restaurant

Rajkot is a restaurant which we frequent quite often, its well situated if you are (brave enough to be) on night out in Bedford. Very much like the idea of tapas in an Indian restaurant as it is all too easy to sit down in an Indian restaurant and choose your favourite dish. This means that the thirty or forty other dishes on the menu don’t get a look into your Indian food lexicon. The tapas element to the restaurant undoubtedly offers the choice to try something new! This is a great way of experimenting and trying dishes without ruining your evening if you don’t like your dish. 

On a Friday or Saturday night the atmosphere can be quite boisterous and you may find yourself shouting to the person sitting opposite you in a struggle to be heard. The music can be very loud, the last time we were there dance music bellowed out from the speakers, hardly in keeping with the usual Indian restaurant atmosphere. 

We have also been unlucky enough to be there when someone ordered the nuclear chicken wings. This is an extremely spicy chicken wing dish that if you are able to eat you get your name on a board on the wall of the restaurant. The ‘nuclear’ spices that were in the air made everyone in the restaurant apart from the staff cough uncontrollably. The manager then had to put a high-powered fan on and open the door to get some fresh air into the room. Not very pleasant. 

On the whole the food is cooked to a good standard. The restaurant is very small, probably twenty covers which does give it an intimate feeling, but if you don’t like sharing your conversation with the people on the table next to you then it’s maybe not for you. The staff are usually very attentive but when the restaurant is busy they seem to fall apart all too quickly under the increased pressure. 

Quality 6

Service 6

Price 7

#Wicbha? Probably