Eastern Eye, The

This is certainly the grandest, and probably the best Indian restaurant in Bath. In a massively gracious room that would do credit to a Livery Company, Eastern Eye serves Indian delicacies from Bengal and Northern India.

The range of dishes is truly amazing, so much so that for the confused there is a standard set meal on offer at £14, plus service.

Whilst this may, in certain circumstances be acceptable I prefer to plumb the infinite glades of the familiar, the new, the feared and the imponderable. Your Balti, for instance, can be turbo charged by the payment of 40p extra. One wonders what capacity £1.20-worth might have.

I select but one dish to demonstrate the care and range of ingredients which goes into Moglai chicken, a mild Moghul dish; tender pieces of spring chicken flavoured with egg, ginger, garlic and exotic massalla, shallow fried then added to a special home prepared sauce made of yoghurt, coconut, poppy seeds, cashews and sultanas before being garnished with roasted cashews.

For £70.00 four people can dine nobly off King Prawn butterfly, chicken chandan, specially prepared lamb and chicken dishes, noor mahal special biriany with nuts and dried fruit, mixed vegetables, nans, popadoms, chutney, dessert and coffee.