My family and I had shown up at around 6:30 on a Friday. There were a few customers scattered around the room. We ordered a wine, an absinthe and a soda. The Absinthe was the best quality that I have ever tasted, though I'm no expert having only had it 5 or 6 times before. We ordered 3 tapas. the Goan Vindaloo, Ghost Ka Salum and the Chicken Makani. Each plate was so delicious that we just chose to order all new dishes for the entrees, now confident in the food. The plates were quite small as someone mentioned, however...they were only 5 bucks each and fit the price wonderfully. It gave us a chance to sample the quality of the food and led us to get entrees for all of us instead of getting a couple of them and splitting them as we tend to do. We then ordered the Sind Ke Jaan, Kashmiri Rogan Josh, and the Chicken Shahi Korma. I read someone was disappointed with the rice, it must have been an off day, because our rice was perfect, yellow and subtly seasoned. The entrees that my wife and I received were delicious and wonderfully prepared and we shared our meals eagerly and found ourselves quite sated. Our daughter found her dish (the Korma) a bit complicated for her pallette as the fruit and nuts in the dish was very new to her so she only ate about half of it, and the other half was hastily consumed by me for lunch the following day. Indian food is so off or on in this town that I sometimes refer to it as food I don't really prefer, finding so few establishments that can do it right. As a chef myself, I tend to be critical at times. But this time, I could'nt tell enough people that night how wonderful the food at the Peacock is. I was pleasantly surprised and now know why they have been there as long as they have. While the prices are not exhorbent, its not fast food prices either. If you want a 30 dollar meal for three people somewhere with a drive thru would be a better idea. If you want great indian food worth every penny...i recommend the Royal Peacock.
Pros: Food prepared precisely, delicious, and with flavours balanced
Cons: they don't carry Mead
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