Breaking Bread Podcast Ep.14 A Weekend Feast At Lasan

Posted On May 20, 2019

It’s Sunday Roast, But Not As You Know It

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HELLO FOODIES, Carl and I are back again this week. We start by talking about some of the delicious meals Carl has been cooking at home. Not as much home cooked food this week, as we have been eating out lots lately.

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One of the places we visited was Lasan, who have just launched their weekend feast menu. We were very kindly invited to try the new menu and share our thoughts with Lasan. So just to be clear we did not pay for this meal, although as usual all opinions are our own. We’re not big fans of taking free food, but accepted this, because it was a restaurant we like and have paid to visit many times before.

Lasan is a very popular up market indian restaurant based in the Jewellery Quarter. With impeccable service, stunning interior which match the quality of it’s food. The beautiful dining room on your right as you walk in, is perfect. On this warm spring day the light comes cascading through the windows filling the whole room.

After a short time at the bar enjoying cocktails and meeting other guests who had been invited to try the new menu, we are shown to our tables. Seated in groups of fours and sixes, to make the most of the everybody get stuck in sharing aspect of the new feast menu.

First up is a mutton samosa. A delicious little crispy parcel of well spiced mutton, a tasty little warm up act for the feast that was about to follow

The aromatic smell of spice fills the dining room making my mouth water, as the waiters start to fill the table with Lasan’s take on a traditional Sunday roast.

There is a heavily spiced, slightly sweet Red lentil and papaya dish called Papita Daal. Some excellent fluffy roast potatoes caked in chili, mustard seed and curry leaf. which the table votes unanimously to request more of. There is also a masala coated cauliflower, which i don’t like but Carl does. No Indian feast would be complete without a pillow like nan, this one seasoned with a little truffle oil perfect to mop up the juices.

The show stopping focal point of this feast, is the enormous shoulder of masala spiced lamb relaxing on a bed of fragrant Biriyiani. It’s stunning, cooked perfectly. I could grab the bone and the meat would just fall straight off it. Tender is a serious understatement.

As a table we fully emerge into the sharing aspect of the meal, and get stuck in. It feels like the right thing to do, and is an experience i really enjoy. I love that every table is eating and talking, there’s a real family atmosphere in the dining room, which is exactly what i believe the restaurant are aiming for.

Although we struggle to finish the lamb, we miraculously manage to eat dessert. A deconstructed carrot cake with vanilla ice cream which is good but not special. I feel it might be a bit on the pricey side to ask for an extra £6 for dessert on top of the £35 for the meal.

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