Thursday 4th August 2011
Everest Curry King
My third or fourth visit to this Sri Lankan restaurant/cafe. It's located on Loampit Hill, just on your way into Lewisham. There's a little strip of shops, all Sri Lankan or south Indian it seems and on it you'll find Indian groceries, Everest Curry King and a second Sri Lankan restaurant, Vinisha on the corner. The boy originally found this place as he lives just down the road in New Cross and was looking for good places to eat. Everest Curry King is a really old fashioned cafe, wood and Formica tables, no menu, just a few pictures of the types of meals they offer on plastic image boards on the wall like you find in a fried chicken shop. They look like they used to be back-lit, but not any more, there are even some missing.
You order at the counter, where you see what the have on offer that day. The lower level has a section with about 10 veggie curries, then on the other side there's fish and meat dishes. We ordered a masala dosa and a veggie curry selection where you get 3 curries and rice all for £3.95!!! We chose the beetroot, chickpea and aubergine, but there was also runner bean, spinach, potato, a daal and another green curry which I was unsure what was the main ingredient.
Once we ordered we sat down. Unfortunately the table we were sitting at was was extremely sticky, so much so that the boy's Evening Standard kept sticking when he has turning the pages, but we didn't let that bother us as the food has been so good every time we have eaten there (and the tables not normally sticky). We were brought some poppadoms with a nice riata while we were waiting for the dosa to be made in the kitchen in the back and the curry to be heated up (in a microwave but don't let that put you off), unfortunately the poppadums were a bit soft, but this was the only disappointing part of the meal.
When our food came, it was delicious. I love south Indian food and a masala dosa is one of my favourite things in the whole world and this one is great. Really crisp dosa and a gorgeous dry potato curry spiced with coriander, cumin & mustard seed and curry leaf, the accompanying daal was suitably watery, highly spiced and hot with chili, and a hint of sweetness. The daal had small chunks of squash and aubergine which made for a lovely texture. I always love the coconut sambal that comes with a dosa and this one was lovely, tinged green in colour with intense spiced coconut flavour. The veggie curries were great too. The beetroot was amazing, really hot in terms of chili, little matchsticks of beetroot cooked and spiced to perfection. The aubergine curry was soft, silky and velvety in texture, again highly spiced and hot enough to put the boy into a sweat (not a hard job, he's not great with heat). The chana was lovely as well and probably the mildest of the three, but had a fabulously dense texture.
This is a great place for a cheap eat. For both meals (which we had shared) it was £9.50!!! We drank tap water that they had brought to the table so a really cheap meal. On the counter above the curries is a shelf with lots of snacks, vadai and bahji's but also these amazing Sri Lankan snacks, pan rolls which I'd never seen before. They come in meat, fish or veggie forms and are a bread, possibly a roti, folded around a curry. They come wrapped in either square, rectangular or triangular form and are cheap and delicious here. It's a great wee street - Vinisha, the other Sri Lankan restaurant here is also very tasty and cheap albeit a bit more formal. Unfortunately I forgot to photograph the outside (I really need a smart phone, I hate having to get the camera out to take the photos) and there is no website, but here's the address:
Everest Curry King
My third or fourth visit to this Sri Lankan restaurant/cafe. It's located on Loampit Hill, just on your way into Lewisham. There's a little strip of shops, all Sri Lankan or south Indian it seems and on it you'll find Indian groceries, Everest Curry King and a second Sri Lankan restaurant, Vinisha on the corner. The boy originally found this place as he lives just down the road in New Cross and was looking for good places to eat. Everest Curry King is a really old fashioned cafe, wood and Formica tables, no menu, just a few pictures of the types of meals they offer on plastic image boards on the wall like you find in a fried chicken shop. They look like they used to be back-lit, but not any more, there are even some missing.
You order at the counter, where you see what the have on offer that day. The lower level has a section with about 10 veggie curries, then on the other side there's fish and meat dishes. We ordered a masala dosa and a veggie curry selection where you get 3 curries and rice all for £3.95!!! We chose the beetroot, chickpea and aubergine, but there was also runner bean, spinach, potato, a daal and another green curry which I was unsure what was the main ingredient.
Once we ordered we sat down. Unfortunately the table we were sitting at was was extremely sticky, so much so that the boy's Evening Standard kept sticking when he has turning the pages, but we didn't let that bother us as the food has been so good every time we have eaten there (and the tables not normally sticky). We were brought some poppadoms with a nice riata while we were waiting for the dosa to be made in the kitchen in the back and the curry to be heated up (in a microwave but don't let that put you off), unfortunately the poppadums were a bit soft, but this was the only disappointing part of the meal.
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| The beautiful masala dosa |
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| Veggie curries - aubergine, chickpea and beetroot |
This is a great place for a cheap eat. For both meals (which we had shared) it was £9.50!!! We drank tap water that they had brought to the table so a really cheap meal. On the counter above the curries is a shelf with lots of snacks, vadai and bahji's but also these amazing Sri Lankan snacks, pan rolls which I'd never seen before. They come in meat, fish or veggie forms and are a bread, possibly a roti, folded around a curry. They come wrapped in either square, rectangular or triangular form and are cheap and delicious here. It's a great wee street - Vinisha, the other Sri Lankan restaurant here is also very tasty and cheap albeit a bit more formal. Unfortunately I forgot to photograph the outside (I really need a smart phone, I hate having to get the camera out to take the photos) and there is no website, but here's the address:
Everest Curry King
24 Loampit Hill
SE13 7SW
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