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Jun 17, 2007
Absolutely Fabulous, Darling
You walk into Shiro through a 15 foot high door (no exageration) and into what looks like a oriental meditation garden. The walls are stone, the high ceiling bamboo and the central area is dominated by a huge statue of a Japenese Princess whose vase trickles water into a pond full of lillies below. It certainly had that immediate wow factor.
We were shown quickly to our table and provided with menus, well two menus for a table of six. Anyway we ordered drinks and starters and whilst the drinks were rather slow coming (considering there are at least three bars) they were good when they arrived (cosmopolitans, bloody mary) and the starters where not far behind.
We shared prawn tempura served with a hot and sweet broth, chicken manchurian, chilli potatoes and tofo and shitake tempura in a creamy spicy sauce. All were very good, of more than adequate size and served in very pretty dishes. Chilli was a main ingredient of each ( but it always is in Indian/Oriental food) but they each managed to maintain their individual flavours. Only complaint was that we had to ask for our portion of prawn tempura three times and then the waiter blamed us for the mix up!
Main courses were prawns in hot bean, a lovely dry, sauce free dish that left the prawns crisp and tasty; prawn red thai curry which was gorgeous, packed with fresh lime leaves and just the right amount of spice; chicken with mushrooms which was a rich and succulent dish; tofu caserole which I was assured was very good and glass noodle salad which was the only dissapointment - too much vinegar.
Too full for dessert we took our drinks and stood by the large bar area, checking out the "beautiful people" who had by this time filled the place to capacity.
While perhaps expensive by Mumbai standards (5 people for food and alcohol was 8000) certainly the atmosphere and food was well worth it, and certainly much less than you would pay in somewhere like the Taj or Henry Jones. The attention to asthetic detail was good, the glasses gorgeous and the vegetable flowers on each dish very pretty.
Sharpen up a somewhat niave service strategy and this place would have got 5/5. We will be back.
