The Sunday Times
Chitra Ramaswamy could not hide her disappointment at the first Indian restaurant in Scotland to have won Michelin recognition, from a Delhi-born chef who has worked at some of Scotland’s top venues (Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond, Rusacks in St Andrews, Cail Bruich in Glasgow).
The menu was “closer to that of an old-school curry house” than she had expected, and the meal opened strongly with poppadoms, grilled lamb chops and chenin blanc from Maharashtra (the first Indian wine Chitra had ever tasted). But the dishes that followed were unimpressive: ‘Amritsari machli fry’ was fish in a thick and soggy batter; butter chicken lacked smokiness; biryani was “good but not breathtaking. We were hoping to lift the lid and be knocked sideways by a fragrant head of steam.”
Everything seemed “a little safe”, and Chitra wanted to see “more regional specificity and personality… more of Massey himself, on his plates.”
Chitra Ramaswamy - 2026-03-08
