One of the top contenders for Best Documentary at the Oscars this year ranges from the skies above Delhi, India to a basement below the city’s north end.
12.10.2022 - 18:52 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Where, I wondered, should I take a visitor from the Outer Hebrides for dinner?
Not seafood, she gets enough of that at home. No burgers, pizzas or other young people favourites because she's older than me and even less interested in loaded fries and cauliflower repackaged for vegans.
She's a very good cook, resourceful and patient enough to order za'atar online and grow her own kale.
I surveyed my spreadsheet, rejected most of the west coast options and wondered about Silk Road Deli.
During the day this is a sandwich shop and unassuming takeaway in the southside's Minard Road. On weekend evenings, owner Tanya Gohil of Million Pound Menu fame uses the same dynamic flavours that make her filled rolls sing in a set menu.
It's exactly the kind of urban eating adventure that is missing from Benbecula. I booked us in.
Silk Road is not licensed, which should have been our signal to buy some really good wine to enjoy at retail prices. Sadly we were too disorganised and ended up with some nasty sauvy B (as our daughters call it) from across the road.
The £6 corkage was almost as much as the abrasive vino.
Tanya's menu changes with the season and we were the last of her summer diners. She is a British Indian who is unafraid to mix up flavours from up and down the Silk Road. With 4000 miles of trade routes, crossing Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, there is plenty of ground to cover.
The Visitor located our summer crudites, with whipped beans and a puddle of green oil, around the eastern Mediterranean. The raw veg - cucumber, radishes and endive - were exactly the bitter, crunchy elements that appear in a traditional mezze spread.
The bean dip, mercifully light on the preserved lemon, was a great match with the herby depths of the
One of the top contenders for Best Documentary at the Oscars this year ranges from the skies above Delhi, India to a basement below the city’s north end.
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