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VIP Taste
- Food served: Mon–Thu 11am–11pm; Fri/Sat 11am–midnight; Sun 5–11pm.
- Typical order: Lamb curry and two chapatis (£6)
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This review is taken from the current (2011) edition.
There are not many clues to the quality of the food at VIP Taste. This small corner shop close to Crosshill railway stations is quite bleak and scruffy inside, with bare lighting and no sign of a menu, prices or information of any kind. All you have to go by is the chilled cabinet displaying the day's wares – three or so curries, pakora, samosas, pilau rice, some spiced lamb and chickpea patties and gol gappa (bite-size puri) by the packet-load. There is also a massive window filled with over 30 varieties of Indian sweets. The service is not exactly overwhelming and descriptions of the dishes are minimal – pointing and asking is greeted with one-word answers such as 'lamb' or 'chickpea'. But the food itself is packed with character. Chapattis are made while you wait, hunks of dough are lovingly flattened and placed to cook in the tandoor. And the innocent-looking lamb curry, with its thin Sunday dinner gravy, has a deep meaty flavour that soaks into the soft chapattis. The highlight is the humble daal packed with green chillies – that have turned soft and pale in releasing their intense heat. Perhaps more than any City Centre plush dining hall, VIP offers a real taste of simple home-cooked Indian cuisine. Some little tweaks are planned for summer 2011, including an even cheaper 'curry and rice for one' deal.
Reviews of VIP Taste (623 Cathcart Road, Glasgow)
- 1. KP Badger, Glasgow – 4 July 2010, 12:29pm
VIP TasteReport -
Stoater!
a little 'bleak and scruffy' perhaps compared to a true restaurant, but pretty flash in its league of govanhill diners! Rustic charm maybe?
Also im sure that if you were able to converse in Punjabi rather than English you would get a fuller description of the dishes of the day - i have always found the service to be informal shall we say, but impeccably friendly.
if your idea of a good curry is a sweet neon sludge with cubes of industrial chicken breast (of the type all too often served up in some of the 'plush city centre' outfits ) then you will not miss anything by avoiding this place.
...However if like me you rate an eatery on the honesty and quality of its food, a genuine welcome, and dont mind the odd windpipe adding flavour to the gravy - then you will agree that this place is truly a King among men.
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