Cafe Lazeez - Soho

The menu at Café Lazeez is based on North Indian/Punjabi cuisine, which uses both vegetables and meat. This means that the majority of dishes are subtly spiced and barbecued, grilled or allowed to cook slowly in their own juices in a haandi, a large round bottomed cooking vessel used for stewing, which might sometimes have a dough seal fitted.

It would be possible to summarise the cuisine with the words, light and fresh, and therefore healthy. If this is different from what critics of Indian cooking have to say about an excess of spices and oil, giving over-rich results, it is because Lazeez are aware of contemporary attitudes towards more healthy food in Britain. Most of the dishes are grilled or dry-fried, with sunflower oil used instead of traditional ghee.

Lazeez is fortunate in having two well-experienced Head Chefs in London and Birmingham, both of whom have previously held the post of Executive Chef at the Oberoi Hotel in Delhi. They produce traditional dishes that use only the very finest raw ingredients and fresh spices. Lazeez is renowned for its tandoor and the Lazeez Barbecue Feast is a noble dish of jumbo prawns, chargrilled salmon, chicken tikka and lamb seekh kebab.