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Adelaide Season 2007-08! |
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It's getting hot in here! ... Back in action after 4 months off!
In place of the well loved Schnitzel Review Tour we've set our sights on
Adelaide's wide range of indian cuisine restaurants for 2007 and possibly for 2008. Again the idea is simple, we'll
be reviewing restaurants on the basis of some certain criteria, and as added value we'll be having multiple reviewers,
multiple dishes, and a hotness rating so we can tell you just how hot the dishes really are! Also, Brad, who only likes burning hot
curries, will request his curries as hot as possible to see where we can find the best burner!
The criteria we'll be rating these spicy delights on will cover service (e.g. professionalism, speed, courtesy),
quality (e.g. meat tenderness, sauce oiliness), atmosphere (e.g. interior looks, music) and value (e.g. price for quantity and quality).
These ratings will be out of a score of 10 marks each and include a little comment, and an average will be made for each reviewer's meal to make his/her final score.
The restaurant's score will consist of an average of each of the reviewer's final scores.
Since this is a curry review, we have to rate the hotness of each dish. Some dishes will by nature be hotter than others,
but we'll be trying to get each reviewer to try something different each week. Each dish will receive a hotness rating out of ten
(not affecting the restaurant's score, unless it really is piss-poor!).
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 | As an added humorous event every review, everyone who participates in the curry review must play "The Chili
Roulette" ! In sequence order going around the table, each person chooses a number betweeen 1 and 6. We roll 2 dice
(using an application on my trusty phone) and if one is their number they must eat a slice of red chili (seeds or no seeds, up to them)! The first unlucky person to roll their number only has to eat 1 piece, but
the second person to roll their chosen number up must eat 2! Third must eat 3, and fourth.... etc! It's a risk you have to be willing to take if you
come to my review! If you get your number on both dice you must eat double!
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Latest review: 6th June 2008
Beyond India
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| 170 O'Connell St
North Adelaide SA 5006
Phone: (08) 8267 3820
Open 7 days, Lunch 12pm - 3pm, Dinner 5pm - Late
http://www.beyondindia.net.au/about.html
Well, it's another month that we missed our curry fix, but seeing as it was my birthday today, I thought I might revive the crowd and inject some tandoor into
the stomachs of my fellow well wishers, thanks everyone! I had totally forgot that I was here last year for a meal, and service was appauling, I had to wait 2 hours for my main
which came last out of everyone... but that was in the past, this is now. Hopefully things have improved! Let's see...
Our final score: 7.975/10
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Butter Chicken
Yeah, I know... what's going on, I'm having a boring butter chicken. Well, sore throats don't go well with hot food, so I had to dial it down a bit. I have to say, I haven't
had a butter chicken for a while, so I was looking forwards to it. It looked very orange, which I hope was from some kind of spices, but otherwise it was a decent serving size.
From my last bad experience here, I made sure to warn the place that I invited 34 people, and we were picky about food and service, and they did deliver on both fronts, with quick service all
round. Meat wasn't the greatest but the sauce was very nice, spicy and creamy. Potato and paneer naan was good too... but the best thing was actually their service! One of the waiters joined in
with singing happy birthday to me. I think that's the best service I've experienced. Awesome.
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Service: 9.8/10 -Served all quick smart, plus I got a birthday song, that'll do it for me.
Quality: 7.8/10 -Meat quality let down the dish, otherwise not bad.
Atmosphere: 9.3/10 -Very nice and new inside, upclass almost.
Value: 8.9/10 -Not the cheapest, but very much worth it, Entertainment Card can be used too.
Final Score: 8.95/10
Hotness Rating: 
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Beef Chennai
This was not our first excursion to Beyond India, but due to ‘technical difficulties’ during the initial excursion, this would be the first official review of said establishment. Having the menu available for viewing online in a pretty and easy-to-use website is a handy feature a lot of restraints seem to lack, but even so, I was forced to make my decision on the fly because there was simply too many meals to choose from (although it was somewhat restrictive in a certain sense – only 3 beef dishes!). Without going into too much detail, the service was very good, there was one misunderstanding but serving 34 impatient youngens this is to be expected.
The meal was very tasty, and served with suprising speed and efficiency, the beef was good (except for one chewy piece!), and the sauce was excellent. The accompanying rice and naan worked very well with the main meal and were proportioned rather accurately. The Chai Tea was a nice option for those not indulging in the goodness of liquor, and when I asked for a Mango Lassi to be served ASAP in preparation for my 6 chilli roulette shot, it was in front of me within a minute! The chilli though was rather disappointing.
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Service: 8.0/10 -Cheery, fast, efficient and amusing, they seemed to really be enjoying themselves.
Quality: 7.0/10 -Good meat quality, really nice sauce. Probably a point deducted for one bad bit of meat which put me off a bit.
Atmosphere: 6.0/10 -A little posh (in a westernized way), which seemed to take precedence over any real cultural atmosphere.
Value: 7.0/10 -Filling serves, prices were good for the apparent ‘classiness’ of the place.
Final Score: 7/10
Hotness Rating: 
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The Chili Roulette!
Well, out of the 32 people who ate with us, you would expect some good odds for some chili tasting... and it was!
Record eating amounts and number of people! Jas and Claire had to eat 6x serving! ... Best curry review ever!
Jas's Roulette Hits: 1 sextuple
Claire's Roulette Hits: 1 sextuple
Ken's Roulette Hits: 1 quintuple
Chow's Roulette Hits: 1 single 3 doubles 1 quadruple
Brigitta's Roulette Hits: 1 quadruple
Ben's Roulette Hits: 1 triple
Josh's Roulette Hits: 3 singles 1 double
Daniel's Roulette hits: 1 single 1 double
Gus' Roulette Hits: 1 single 1 double
Byron's Roulette Hits: 1 single 1 double
Nathan's Roulette Hits: 1 double
Dan's Roulette Hits: 1 double
Eli's Roulette Hits: 1 double
Taryn's Roulette Hits: 1 double
Lara/Brad/Wiser/Lauren/Abby's Roulette Hits: 1 single
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I was up first...double fives, means double chili!
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Byron followed with one double shotter of chili...
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Then Jas rolled double fives again, to have a triple chili shot, times two!
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Don't worry Brigitta, it's only a quadruple serving of burning...
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Ken was hoping that he wouldn't have to eat, let alone a fiver...
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Claire had to eat a six lot of chili, but wimped out and only had half of that. I'll count it still. Highest record of chili hits ever!
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Chow's Curry Review Tour 2007-08 (c)
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