A family dinner with my loud and loved lot always means chaos. My siblings and I have all seem to have inherited various percentages of the drama queen gene from dad (he's not going to like that, but I will refer him to his published poetry where I believe I was referred to as GANGLY. touche mon papa, touche) and we all like to contribute our 10c to the conversation. Only it rapidly turns from a 10c input to throwing handfuls of shiny shiny coins at one or more of the 5 topics we are currently discussing. The conversation moves. QUICKLY.
And did I mention darling dad has also strictly ingrained a deep respect and interest in the culinary world? The mere reference of pineapple on pizza sends him into hysterics (dad, one comment from you on my descriptions and I will be forced to mention the butter chicken incident. You have been warned) and he has been known to travel extraordinary distances to test out a recommendation.
Needless to say - we are tough on restaurants.
For the night to be a success we need staff that can flirt and engage appropriately, but who also realise that when I have begun my 'you'll NEVER believe what happened to me...' monologue it's best to melt back into the shadows until I'm finished.
We also need a lengthy and varied liquor list to lubricate our conversation and encourage scandalous revelations. And to assist us to recover from and dissect these revelations. And to erase all memories of these revelations.
Delhi 'o' Delhi had the staff, had the booze, but the food?
Sadly not up to scratch.
The dishes were adequate, but not impressive enough to stop anyone mid discussion for an 'oooh that's good try that one' comment. Although conversation at family dinners never stops entirely, great food can mellow us into having (gasp) only one person speaking at a time. The presentation of the food was lovely, but the flavours were a bit ho hum and to be perfectly honest I can't recall all the dishes we tried, they all faded away post event.
Sadly this means that Delhi 'o' Delhi will not be receiving my families (highly sought after) thumbs up. Sorry guys, but we will be taking our messy chaos elsewhere next time.
