"The amazing Martyn M organised a Pakora Passport outing to Mushtaq's and I was super excited about it. They have a pretty funny website if you check it out they are really proud of having a clean kitchen and 100% natural ingredients. By the time I arrived, Martyn was well versed on the Mushtaqs Faqts and regaled us with some beauties, including the fact they will be able to cater for 4,000 meals in their newly expanded kitchen. Amazing. Anyway, the restaurant is nice, kind of small but modern. I don't remember seeing a menu, it seemed like they wanted us to have the buffet which is around £13pp. I was happy with this but normally I'd rather just order what I fancy as I don't really like buffets as I will always overeat. Haha! The starters were great poppadums and sauces at the buffet, a plate of pakora and some chicken pieces served fresh. I really liked the pakora and also discovered alu tikki potato in pakora batter, kind of like a potato fritter. (Fun fact: I call them a potato cake. Other Australians call them a potato scallop). There was a good selection of curries at the buffet, about 8 10 in varying degrees of hotness. I tried the chasni and korma as well as one of the hotter ones and thought they were both delicious. You could really see these were proper fillets of chicken which were cut quite large, obviously no dubious chicken plumping going on here. We had to wait a little while for the nan bread to arrive but that's because they cooked it fresh. I know it was cooked fresh because it was hotter than hell when it arrived. It was really tasty though and had a really light, soft consistency to it. Yum. With drinks it came to around £16 each which is really great for that much food. I didn't make return trips to the buffet as I'd definitely over eaten by the end of it. There were only a couple of things I didn't love about here parking in the pitch black car park out the back felt like the start of a Law Order episode and I was sure I was going to get attacked by someone hiding behind the earth moving equipment. Thankfully when we were leaving we went to our cars as a group. The other thing I didn't like were the chairs in the restaurant. They were big arm chairs and made it difficult to get out without pushing your chair really far back, into the path of the waiter and probably the person next to you (sorry Austen). Maybe it's to stop you going back to the buffet so much? Haha! I'd like to try the full menu before going up to 5 stars, as I said I don't tend to love a buffet!"
