Salkaara — Restaurant in Wales

Fantastic. There was some craft at work in this kitchen. I mean, how do you produce a lamb samosa with a time delay as to when the spices appear and begin playing with your taste buds? Such variety of flavours, not your all-too-frequent experience in an Indian restaurant where the sauce colour may be different between dishes but the taste difference is indiscernable. The £36 taster menu was replete with tasty courses, in fact, not one was bland and all were distinct. The stand-out dish? Hard to isolate one. We began with the lightest, non-greasy poppadoms we've had (dips didn't have much pazazz thinking about it). The starters were excellent; chicken tikka, lamb samosa and onion pakora. Dead heat. The palate cleansing sorbet was bursting with discernable fruitiness. Main dishes; Syrian beef, dhabha chicken and a black lentil dal were all really good. Preference was in that order. The dark colour of the Syrian beef was a little disconcerting but the depth of flavour, with just the right tingle factor, set this one apart. Basmati rice was fluffy and was accompanied by Thoran. Never seen this dish before. Cabbage, carrot and coconut, with niys of other veg cut small, infused by curry leaves was a delightful alternative to rice. Naan bread basket was well filled with light and tasty peshwari and chilli naans that had the right balance of soft and crispy fringes. An excellent meal was sweetly wrapped up with a chocolate samosa on bruleed banana. Brilliant. Such innovation characterised this excellent meal. Not just churning out the routinely expected stuff. There were so many flavoursome surprises throughout. The staff we so pleasant, repeatedly checking in on their offer many at the start of extra portions if needed. We only had the one. We were...

📍 Salkaara, Wellfield Road Last weekend we went to Salkaara in Cardiff for some authentic Indian food.

This hidden gem has an incredible menu, outstanding food and service.

We started with freshly made poppadoms with mint sauce, beetroot and chutney.

For mains I had the tandoori salmon, which was melt in the mouth delicious. I have a nut allergy and this was dealt with really well.

Next was the tandoori chicken which was bursting with flavour and perfectly cooked.

We then had the saag khumb which was leaf spinach with mushroom sauteed in butter with chillis and ginger, with coconut rice and a peshwari naan.

Finally we had the prawn moilee, a light and delicious south Indian curry packed with juicy prawns and coconut milk.

Salkaara specialise in Keralan/ Southern Indian food and their menu has something for everyone. This is the best Indian food I’ve had and it comes highly recommended.

Thanks for having us!

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We attended the restaurant with a prebooking for 2 but were greeted awkwardly as whoever took the call had reserved the table but with no name. The restaurant was empty so instead of just seating us they made a song and dance about the table with no name before giving us the table! Once seated we waited 10 minutes for someone to bring us menus, in the end my husband had to go to the bar to ask for them. The starters were lovely but were very small for the price The mains were delicious and a very good size. The desserts were disappointing, we ordered the gulab Jamun it was very plain and lacked any flavour Over all the service was very POOR and SLOW having many times tried to get the waiters attention we had to leave our seats to ask for further drinks Ordered a large bottle of water but was only given 1 glass, had to get up again to find a waiter to bring us another. We won’t be...