Brilliant modern Indian cooking

For some reason I hadn't heard about The Painted Heron, despite being an addict of Indian cooking, but have being turned away from Amaya and Roussillon we arrived at the unfashionable end of Cheyne Walk to a most delightful surprise - quite the best Indian cooking I have had - even in India. Actually, it's rather unfair to compare it as it's 'modern' Indian - so cooked according to the European principle of separating tastes and textures, unlike the tendency of Indian cooking to become an undifferentiated hodge-podge of flavours. Each dish was perfection - fillets of sea bass coated in spices and a vegetetarian tasing dish of splendid subtlety and variety. A couple of quibbles - the asparagus was stringy and the wines by the glass could have been of higher quality (a common complaint), but the food, taken together with the sweet and helpful service and charming decor, puts this newish (2002) restaurant into the first league.

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