from Rawlie (60%) on November 10th, 2008 (1 month ago)

Roti, 73 Morrison Street, EH3 8BU, Edinburgh

I went to Roti on Friday night and, having been previously in its old location, my expectations were high. I was shocked to see someone has given it only 2.5 stars. Now I have to disagree with Marius' verbose and indepth review. For a start, MY husband and I had a bottle or wine, a starter each and a main course each and it came to £55 which I do NOT think is overpriced for extremely well presented and delicious food. If you're expecting your typical curry, covered in sauce with a massive naan and lots of gooey and bright orange sauces this place is going to disappoint. If, however, you are looking for food which is interesting, flavoursome, cooked perfectly and beautifully presented by excellent staff then you are probably in the right place.

When you arrive there are little nibbles on your table, some nice sort of crisp things with really nice onion, carrot and tomatoey dips. I ordered yogurt and cumin fritters with mango and chilli chutney for my starter (I wasn't sure how you make yogurt into a fritter but you can do it!). Really tasty, light and a good starter for any sort of curry-ish meal. My husband had Goanese fishcakes which were delicious, very fishy (not potatoey) and fragrant. yum.

for my main I had a Stack of Gram Flour Pancakes with Sweet Pepper, Red Kidney Bean Masala which was delicious. Unless you are really hungry you don't need a side order of rice or bread with this one (it's got enough with the pancakes). My other half had the fish curry which was a fresh and delicate curry.

The waiting staff were very good, attentive without being intrusive and very smart looking. I did feel it was a bit quiet for a Friday night but it might be due to location as restaurants here have always struggled to attract the crowds but please go, it would be a shame for this place to go the same way as Rogue (which was fab) just because people can't be bothered walking a little way up Morrison St.

Yum yum. I'll be back... get to de chopper...

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