This May, Harneet and Devina Baweja will open their new restaurant Madame D’s in Spitalfields on the second floor of No.76, overlooking Commercial Street. Following the success of Gunpowder, their home style Indian kitchen, Harneet, Devina and Head Chef Nirmal Save will bring their love of the darker, oriental flavours of the Himalayas to London.
Taking the oriental bedrock of Himalayan cooking, Madame D’s will draw on the flavours of Indian, Nepalese, Tibetan and Chinese cooking, using local ingredients for a short menu of sharing dishes including; Gold Coin Dumplings; Pan-fried Tibetan Duck Momo; Garlic Coriander Steamed Chicken; and Prawn on Toast, a take on the Chinese classic.
‘I first discovered Himalayan food when visiting family in North East India where I spent my summers growing up. The memory of the constant heat from the spices… it was food unlike anything I’d eaten before and on a recent trip back to the region, Nirmal and I realised we couldn’t return to London and face daily life without those intoxicating flavours!” says founder Harneet.
Marked only by deep red awnings overhanging the windows, Madame D’s will echo the ramshackle back-rooms that once littered the Commercial Street rag route. The 25-cover dining den will be illuminated by smokey candlelight dancing off the distressed walls and high ceilings. Makeshift industrial trestle tables and long wooden benches will line the room for communal feasting.
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