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Remember the days when exotic meant 'Chilled Melon with a touch of Port'? Well, those days are alive and well at Shezan, a once-pioneering restaurant, which has apparently not changed its menu in three decades. Other comic highlights of the starters menu include mulligatawny soup and avocado shrimp.
This is a real shame, for Shezan was the original gourmet Indian restaurant, which opened people’s eyes to the possibilities of authentic cooking methods and paved the way for the superb cuisine of places like Chor Bizarre and Quilon. During the 1970s it became the only restaurant to receive the coveted Egon Ronay award and Restaurant of the Year Award in the same year.
And to be fair, this remains a perfectly decent curry house. At £10-15 for a main course, prices are well above average for Indian food, but not so high considering the Knightsbridge location. A mixed dish of items from the Tandoor was carefully prepared and included faultlessly succulent Changezi Chaap (marinated lamb chops). Chicken Jalfrezi was perhaps a little underspiced for the cosmopolitain modern palate, but the Tarka Dal was addictively smooth. Bland but soothing décor was accompanied by some fantastic piped music (when was the last time you heard Minnie Ripperton on a curryhouse stereo?) and the service was faultless. Though Shezan does not have the slick style of its gourmet rivals, it combines 1970s retro charm with good, basic Indian cooking.
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London > Hotels > Luxury Chain Hotel Double Club Rooms: 36% off from £215
22-24 Basil Street, SW3 | 6 minutes from Shezan
This discrete hotel on Basil Street, in Knightsbridge, was created by Scottish proprietor David Levin in 1971 and remains a privately owned family-run hotel to this ...More
London > Hotels > Mid-Range Chain Hotel Deluxe Double Rooms: 67% off from £164
17 Sloane Street, SW1X | 7 minutes from Shezan
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75 Sloane Street, SW1X | 8 minutes from Shezan
A discreet boutique Edwardian hotel, with a hushed and welcoming atmosphere, the Cadogan's past guests include Oscar Wilde, who was arrested in room 118 in 1895, ...More
London > Restaurants > Indian/South Asian restaurants
7 Cheval Place, Off Brompton Road, , London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 1 minute from Shezan
Type: Indian cuisine Booking: Advisable Functions: Separate room for parties ...More
London > Restaurants > Indian/South Asian restaurants
Halkin Arcade, Motcomb Street, , London, Belgravia, London SW1X | 9 minutes from Shezan
Amaya's ethos is simple - escape the chicken-tikka tyranny of the traditional curry house and serve up something different. And that's exactly what they do. Brilliantly. ...More
London > Restaurants > Indian/South Asian restaurants
62 - 64 Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, , London, Belgravia, London SW1X | 11 minutes from Shezan
Salloos is one of London's oldest and most reputable Pakistani restaurants and has been at the heart of Belgravia's restaurant scene since opening in 1976. The ...More
London > Restaurants > Cafes and Delis
132 Brompton Road, London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 1 minute from Shezan
Pret sells up market fast food, hand made from natural ingredients, to take away or eat on site, in its trademark no nonsense chrome interiors. The ...More
London > Restaurants > Cafes and Delis
132 Brompton Road, London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 1 minute from Shezan
Pret sells up market fast food, hand made from natural ingredients, to take away or eat on site, in its trademark no nonsense chrome interiors. The ...More
London > Restaurants > Italian restaurants
13 Montpelier Street, Knightsbridge, , London, Knightsbridge, London SW7 | 1 minute from Shezan
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London > Events > Exhibitions Dates: Sunday 27th May 2012 at 12.30pm-1pm and 2.30pm-3pm
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 | 11 minutes from Shezan
Scientists discuss the Open Air Laboratories network....More
London > Events > Exhibitions Dates: Saturday 26th May 2012 at 6pm & Sunday 27th May 2012 at 10.45pm
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 | 11 minutes from Shezan
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London > Events > Kids Events Dates: Sunday 27th May 2012
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London SW7 | 11 minutes from Shezan
The Natural History Museum is celebrating the International Day of Biodiversity by putting on a Big Nature Day for one day only this May. A huge ...More
London > Entertainment > Cinemas
Exhibition Road, Knightsbridge, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 10 minutes from Shezan
The huge IMAX screen - ten times bigger than the average screen - at the Science Museum is one of the few places in London where ...More
London > Entertainment > Classical Music
Prince Consort Road, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 10 minutes from Shezan
The Royal College of Music is the school where Gustav Hoilst, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Benjamin Britten, James Galway, Joan Sutherland and Ralph Vaughan Williams learnt their ...More
London > Entertainment > Classical Music
Kensington Gore, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 11 minutes from Shezan
Classical music, rock, pop and jazz, sporting events, galas, banquets and balls and the world-famous Proms series all take place within the Royal Albert Hall's ...More
London > Attractions > Other Attractions
87-135 Brompton Road, London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 3 minutes from Shezan
England's most famous department store. Owned by eponymous Egyptian entrepreneur Mohamed Al-Fayed, Britain's most iconic shop features on many tourists’ “must-see” lists - and with good reason. ...More
London > Attractions > Historic Buildings
Brompton Road, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 4 minutes from Shezan
Built in 1884, in the Italianate Baroque style, the Brompton Oratory is an exact imitation of the Church of the Gesu in Rome and sports some ...More
London > Attractions > Museums
Cromwell Road, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 7 minutes from Shezan
The Victoria and Albert Museum (or V & A as everyone calls it) was originally founded in 1852 to inspire and educate British designers and manufacturers. ...More
London > Shopping > Supermarkets
102 Brompton Road, London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 2 minutes from Shezan
An everyday nightmare situation: it's late, the shops are shut, and you really need an ostrich steak, a bottle of Cristal and a hundred grammes of ...More
London > Shopping > Ladies Fashion
2 Hans Road, London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 2 minutes from Shezan
Lesser mortals may purchase their underwear at Marks & Spencer, but the Queen goes to Rigby & Peller. This establishment understands the finer points of corsetry, ...More
London > Education > Universities and Colleges
Kensington Gore, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 12 minutes from Shezan
This is one of London's most prestigious art colleges and the world's only wholly postgraduate university of art and design. You will need at least a ...More
London > Education > Evening Classes
165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 13 minutes from Shezan
There are plenty of initiatives trying to get kids involved in science, but the Dana Centre, an extension of the Science Museum, is the first one ...More
London > Education > Evening Classes
23 Kensington Square, London, Kensington, London W8 | 24 minutes from Shezan
Evening and weekend classes in life drawing and painting, taught by tutors from the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Society of British Sculptors. ...More
London > Leisure > Health and Beauty
40 Hans Crescent, London, Knightsbridge, London SW1X | 5 minutes from Shezan
The Knightsbrige branch of Space NK in Hans Crescent, right next to Harrods, is especially appealing - not only does it sell desirable toiletries, chic ...More
London > Leisure > Health and Beauty
Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, 66 Knightsbridge, London, Hyde Park, London SW1X | 9 minutes from Shezan
The vitality plunge pool, amethyst crystal steam room and zen colour therapy relaxation area are all part of the experience at The Spa at the Mandarin ...More
London > Leisure > Health and Beauty
63-81 Pelham Street, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 9 minutes from Shezan
Downstairs from LA Fitness (keep going past the people who look like they're about to die on the running machines) you'll find G-Spa. A world away ...More
London > Restaurants > Gastropub
35 Walton Street, South Kensington, , London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 6 minutes from Shezan
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London > Restaurants > Gastropub
17 Mossop Street, London, Knightsbridge, London SW3 | 8 minutes from Shezan
Affectionately referred to as "the Cod", this Knightsbridge boozer-come-gastropub has acquired a reputation for serving high quality, modern food in no-fuss, sleek surroundings. If you do ...More
London > Restaurants > Gastropub
10 Motcomb Street, London, Belgravia, London SW1X | 10 minutes from Shezan
From the people who brought us The Thomas Cubitt gastropub comes this Motcomb Street venture with a ground floor bar and two ...More
Nightlife near Shezan
London > Nightlife > Bars
86 Fulham Road, London, South Kensington, London SW3 | 17 minutes from Shezan
Eighty-Six is the brainchild of George Adams and Charlie Kearns, the duo behind Verbier's Coco Club. A popular place for after hours socialising for the Fulham ...More
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London > Business > Venue Hire
30 Pavilion Road, Knightsbridge, London, Knightsbridge, London SW1X | 6 minutes from Shezan
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London > Business > Venue Hire
Cromwell Road, London, South Kensington, London SW7 | 7 minutes from Shezan
Conference facilities can accommodate for up to 2450 people....More
London > Business > Venue Hire
66 Knightsbridge, London, Hyde Park, London SW1X | 9 minutes from Shezan
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