Pasha

3 course fixed price menu, including a cocktail for £20

This offer is available from Mon Mar 10, subject to availability as displayed in the booking interface. Offer includes taxes and excludes service charge.
Offer valid until May 30

If you’re looking for glamour and oriental opulence, Pasha is likely to fulfil all your fantasies. The restaurant glisters like no other. Diners pass through the heavy wooden door into a rich red and copper-hued wonderland, full of beguiling, kitsch-free artisanship. It’s so sexy, we’d defy any date not to smoulder here. The place does get noisy, though, once larger groups arrive and the belly dancers get going, so save sweet nothings for later. There’s a slightly bewildering variety of set meals, even the most modest of which is substantial – two meze and a main course each. Elegantly spiced minced scallop and red pepper briouat and feather-light courgette fritters really set the taste buds singing, but beware the viciously vinegary beetroot salad. Main courses were absolute stunners: seafood tagine full of voluptuous prawns, scallops and mussels (but, strangely, served with neither bread nor couscous to mop up the juices); and chargrilled chicken breast couscous, artfully presented with separate bowls of vegetable broth, harissa and sweet sultanas. Mint tea arrived with a delicately wrought, towering cake stand full of sweetmeats and pastries. It’s all pretty pricey, but when did gorgeousness ever come cheap?

Time Out Eating & Drinking Guide 2008

Services:

Booking: Book weekends
Dress code: smart casual
Function room: Separate room for parties, seats 18
Takeaway service: Vegetarian menu

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