Pure Indian Cooking near Putney Bridge Station in Fulham offers a fresh take on South Asian cuisine with fine dining flourishes that suggest Chef Patron Shilpa Dandekar’s kitchen is one to watch.
I sat in on a recent media tasting of the restaurant’s current menu. Everything tried was delicious, and the restaurant is an easy one to recommend for curbing curry cravings. If Pure Indian Cooking is your local, consider yourself lucky.
A starter course of scallops with strawberries, fresh mint, rhubarb ginger chutney and roasted almonds (£9) was an intriguingly tasty dish and perhaps most exemplary of Chef Shilpa Dandekar’s keen sense of taste and confident approach to culinary craft.
The scallops were definitely the most interesting dish, but my fave was the particularly flavoursome and tender pulled lamb with spicy pyaaz masala and garlic naan straws (£9).
I enjoyed a fiery mango chilli margarita (£8) at the start of my seating and an easy-drinking Schiehallion Harviestoun Brewery Pilsner style lager (£4.50) with my meal. Rose and chocolate fondant with salted caramel sauce and pistachio ice cream (£6) was an indulgent treat for dessert.
Service was friendly and efficient.
Pure Indian Cooking is located at 67 Fulham High Street, SW6 3JJ. Find out more at pureindiancooking.com.
