Zaika

Top quality food assured - and served in a very different style to your normal Indian. They take great care with the presentation and ensure that teh food is very fresh and different. The wine list is good but a little OTT for them really. Service has always been good for us but have heard it can be off hand. Bar area fun - just pop in for a drink and enjoy. Not too rushed and portions very gererous on the main course. the starter is what it says- a starter - but I like that.

No recommendations - it is all great.
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Martin Short
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Food 9 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 7
Friday, February 02, 2007

My family ate at this restaurant on Saturday and found the food absolutely divine. The service, however, did not match the food or the service charge. Our waiter was brusque and we continually had to request our glasses be topped up, as they did not do it and left our bottle of wine too far from the table for us to do it ourselves. If the can lose the attitude this restaurant would be top notch.
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Deborah Davies
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Food 9 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 6
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

I can highly recommend this place if you are into gourmet indian food such as the The Cinnamon Club. By the entrance they have a bar which makes really good cocktails to enjoy before your meal.

The service is outstanding, I had meal created for me as what I wanted wasn't on the menue. So on request they made me a lobster on risotto topped with mild curry sauce. They also brough a lot of extras to to the table at no extra charge. Staff very friendly, effecient and polite.

Enjoy
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Alexander Bjorkheim
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Food 8 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 8
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

In a word, superb. I and my three friends enjoyed one of the best Indian meals I have ever had. Starters were generous, beautifully spiced and cooked with an excellent balance between modern twist and classical Indian cuisine. My Koh-e-Rogan Josh was superb; rich, tender and full of flavours. The saffron rice was a delicate and wonderful accompaniment. If anything, there was too much Rogan josh - it was difficult not to finish it because it was so excellent a dish! The paratha I ordered was good, and side dishes ordered by us all were excellent, especially the dubkiwale aloo, which was simple yet sensational tasting. I sincerely hope it regains its Michelin star - it deserves it.
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Dave Collins - View all reviews by this user
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Food 9 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 8
Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Well, we wanted to try something new and had read some reports about this restaurant in addition several times I had walked past it on High Street Kensington, opposite Kensington gardens .

The venue is an old bank and therefore the ceilings are high giving it an airy feel and it had a nice ambience to it generally, however the food and service was really poor for a restaurant of this price. The service was very complicated with only certain individuals allowed to take your order, this is annoying when other waiters walk past you or top up your glass but cannot take a food order. The food was a great disappointment, one could be eating at any Indian restaurant, my main course, a lamb dish looked like what you get down the the cafe presentation wise, a bowl of brown slop with white rice and some shaving or coconut on top, big wow!!! My wife's main a sort of chiken from the Tandor was better but frankly again nothing unique I also thought the taste of my lamb dish was very bland. The dessert was also a bit sad, samosas of chocolate, the outside pastry was brittle and the chocolate inside was solid not soft or runny, nothing special. The bill was huge (they charged us for poppadoms which never arrived!!) for what we had and we would not return , I would strongly suggest Amaya which for the same money, the food is much better and the service is good.
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Cam Bannenberg
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Food 3 | Service 2 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 2
Monday, June 26, 2006

Maybe we hit a bad night but our visit to Zaika left us underwhelmed last Saturday. We were placed very near the kitchen - maybe our punishment for being a few minutes late. The service was very rushed and overly fussy. We've eaten in many Michelin star restuarants and many more good (and not so good) Indians. But for us the fusion of the two didn't quite work. The room is unusual and classy but the light is poor with many shadows being cast on the food. One starter of spicy salmon with mustard and honey was good, another prawn dish very bland. For main courses, guinea fowl was nicely cooked and spiced but a prawn coconut curry was dreadful. Its presentation on a large bowl was a bit of a dog's breakfast and the comment ' tastes a bit like a sauce from a jar' should never be thought, never mind said in a place of this ambition and cost. Okay we should have complained but we didn't. Unlike the German couple next to us, who received a personal apology from the chef for a mistake that remained a mystery to us. We just paid our bill complete with compulsory service charge and left. A pity but maybe it just was a bad night...
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Food 6 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 3 | Value for money 1
Monday, May 08, 2006

We visited this restaurant with our friends from Barcelona last night and found the food to be good (although small portions). The cheese platter and vegetarian thali were good.We felt the service was a little poor and felt like we were being rushed through the meal.
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Pratima
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Food 8 | Service 4 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 5
Sunday, April 23, 2006

I would just like to point out that Zaika was actually stripped of its Michelin-star in 2005.

Good food but overpriced.
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Young T
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Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 5
Friday, March 31, 2006

Had lunch there last week with a business associate. Food was great and decor is wonderful. Portions were too small and prices to high for the amount you get.
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s gossain
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 4
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Just came back from lunch at this fantastic restaurant. We wanted to order almost everything from the menu, because all the dishes looked good. The starter chaat and the prawn pakoras were just perfect. The smoked salmon main and the grouper with coconut sauce were to die for. For dessert, the chocolate samosas were sinfully delicious. Staff were very nice and accommodating.
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Catherine Bertram
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Food 10 | Service 10 | Atmosphere 10 | Value for money 5
Tuesday, February 14, 2006