Chutney Mary

Chutney Mary
Restaurant information
Established	1990
Owner(s)	MW Eat
Food type	Indian (Northern, Goan, and Anglo-Indian)
Rating	The MICHELIN Plate : good cooking (Michelin Guide 2018)[1]
Street address	73 St James's St, St. James's
City	London
Postal/ZIP Code	SW1A 1PH
Country	England
Website	chutneymary.com

Chutney Mary is a dining Indian restaurant in London, founded in 1990 by Ranjit Mathrani & Namita Panjabi through their restaurant company, whose current name is MW Eat. It was originally located in Kings Road, Chelsea, but relocated to St James's, London in 2015.^[2]

Chutney Mary aims to redefine public perception of Indian cuisine by showcasing gourmet foods from 6 to 8 different regions of India at any one time. Its philosophy is that the foods of different regions are best cooked by the chefs from that region.^[3]

Awards and reviews

At its previous location, the restaurant received the award for Best Indian restaurant in the UK twice, awarded by the Good Curry Guide. It was also featured twice in Fay Maschler's top 20 London restaurants, and the ITV Carlton Award as London's Best Indian Restaurant.^[4]

In its new location the late AA Gill gave it the maximum of 5 Stars in his Sunday Times review with the concluding words "…if there is a better pan-Indian restaurant in London than Chutney Mary, I haven't eaten in it".^[5]

Chutney Mary received the Square Meal Lifestyle BMW Best New Restaurant Award. The citation said “…For a restaurant to reach the 25-year mark is unusual; for it to mark that anniversary by moving to a totally different part of the city is unheard of”.^[6]

Time Out Magazine rated it as No. 5 of Top 50 restaurants in London with the phrase “Indian cooking, as good as it gets.” In the restaurant review, Roopa Gulati gave it a 5 Star rating, saying “…Astonishing quality & wonderful service”.

The Evening Standard - London Design Hotspot stated “…The new home of Chutney Mary incorporates dazzling décor that is fitting for this sumptuous environment”

The Tatler recommended its Duck Jardaloo and Goan Chicken Curry.^[7]

Grace Dent in the Evening Standard called the dining room "irrefutably stunning", the restaurant "capacious, candle-bedazzled, art-strewn and Bentley-visited", and inevitably expensive. She found the venison samosas "unforgettable", and the carrot and cardamon soufflé with pistachio ice cream "the stuff of dreams".^[8]

Ben McCormack in The Daily Telegraph called the new restaurant "swanky". He explains that it was the first restaurant in Britain to cover all seven of the major cuisines of India: Lucknow, Punjab, Gujarat, Parsi, Goa, Kerala, and Hyderabad. He reported that the food was enjoyable and eye-opening.^[9]

See also

• English cuisine
• List of Indian restaurants

References

1. "Chutney Mary : a Michelin Guide restaurant". www.viamichelin.co.uk. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
2. "Chutney Mary St James's | London | Home". www.chutneymary.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
3. "Chutney Mary | Our Cuisine | Gourmet Indian Food by London's Best Indian Restaurant". www.chutneymary.com. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
4. "Award-winning Indian Restaurants | MW Eat | The Group | Awards". www.realindianfood.com. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
5. "Media Articles - Chutney Mary". www.fineindianrestaurants.com. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
6. McCormack, Ben (6 October 2015). "Top Chutney: BMW Best New Restaurant". SquareMeal. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
7. "Tatler Restaurant Guide 2016. Chutney Mary". The Tatler. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
8. Dent, Grace (18 June 2015). "Grace Dent reviews Chutney Mary: just the right mix of capacious, candle-bedazzled, art-strewn and Bentley-visited". Evening Standard. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
9. McCormack, Ben (15 June 2015). "Classics Revisited: Chutney Mary". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 16 June 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2016.

External links

• Chutney Mary

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