Fine Dining Indian Food Magazine April Issue 2 | Page 27

Gunpowder | London
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Gunpowder is a very small restaurant, mainly a Yes, it's different from all other Indian restaurants
street food outlet. The result is that people end up in London - neither fine dining nor a curry house.
queueing, as there are no bookings and the
restaurants only seats 20 or so.
We were doing market research for a project of
ours in Earl's Court, an Indian small-plate
Is the food that great that it is worth the consultancy project for a new restaurant opening.
queueing? Our mind-set was to try and follow Our research brought us to Gunpowder.  
where the crowd goes. Let's look at who the crows
is - restaurant-goers who are not looking The dishes we tasted are in the pictures. We taste,
for tamed Indian cuisine in London, which generally take notes but mostly only go back to pictures.
lacks the punch we Indians are used to to. So it's Notes are there so that after a few weeks, one can
natural that when word of mouth spread that realise what memories the dishes bring back. The
there's now a restaurant that gives spicy Indian ones that taste amazing are already stuck.
food - it was automatically seen as authentic.
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