Served
Tuesday 22 September
Special of the dayDal Dhokli
- Paneer Handi
- Chawli Tomato Vatana
- Aloo Kanda Rasawala
29 dishes on the board
The flavours of Kathhiyawadi, carried from Gujarat and Rajasthan to Al Karama.
10 courses, unlimited, and a new board every morning. Today is not what we served yesterday.
No fixed menu. A new one every morning.
10 courses, in the same order, every service. What goes into them is written on the board before the doors open. Here are the most recent boards.
A Kathhiyawadi thali arrives all at once. 20-odd dishes, and every one of them comes back when it runs low.
Every service brings the same 10 courses in the same order. A sharbat and a chaas first, then farsan, the day's special, 4 vegetable dishes, and 3 or 4 dals and kadhis at once, so the sweet Gujarati one and the fierce Marwadi one sit side by side. Then rice, breads, 3 desserts, and a malai kulfi that has never once come off the board.
What fills those 10 slots is rewritten before the doors open, which is why there is no printed menu to hand you. One price for all of it, and the katoris keep coming back full.
Someone notices before you do.
The tray comes out empty, ringed with 10 small steel bowls. That ring is the only part of the meal that never changes. What goes in it depends on what the kitchen wrote on the board that morning.
Then it keeps arriving. Dal, kadhi, sabzi, rice, hot phulka and puri off the tawa, salad and chutneys and papad. Someone comes round with the pot, sees a katori running low, and offers. You say yes, or you say that is enough.
View the thali experience
The culture and flavours of Gujarat and Rajasthan, in Al Karama.
One tray, 10 courses, and the katoris keep coming back full.
Lunch: 12:00 pm – 3:45 pm.Dinner: 7:00 pm – 11:15 pm.