At home with Brigadiers

Brigadiers, one of the Indian restaurants in Bloomberg’s shopping centre in the city, has started running delivery on Deliveroo during the current pandemic. I tried ordering from them, and I think I would be very pleased to order again.

My order and the cost

For this meal I ordered:

For a total cost of £28.50. This would put the restaurant in fairly-expensive territory for a single meal for one. Although I originally ordered all this just for me in a fit of gluttony, in practice the portions (especially the Biryani) meant that this was my meal that night, and then also two lunches of leftovers the next day for me and my partner with only minor additions (and snacking on the pork scratchings lasted several days). So considered as about £30 for 3 meals in bulk I think it’s fairly cheap.

What I liked

Special credit should go for the planning and execution of having a delivery option. The food was all extremely well packaged, and although I found it had kept warm very well on the journey a nice little printed card was included with instructions on how to warm it up the different kinds of dishes.

The kathi roll made for an extremely tasty starter, with very rich flavours and a lot of texture. It reminded me a lot of the best parts of eating from Bombay Burrito, and the paratha had a nice semi-fried texture — I have no idea what a kathi roll should be like, but I enjoyed it a lot.

The biryani was excellent, and the portion very plentiful. It had a very rich and quite spicy flavour, and the rice was not bland at all. A boiled egg made an interesting addition — something I’d not seen in a biryani before, but added some nice contrast in the taste and texture. In future I might boil an extra egg to add myself as well. You will need some sauce with the Biryani, and the dal on the menu is I assume expressly intended for that. You’ll probably want to avoid the chili pieces in the dal — I found them too spicy to enjoy eating myself.

What to watch out for

I usually regret pork scratchings afterwards, and even eaten over several days this was no exception. It was interesting to try due to the curry flavouring, but I would not recommend them.

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