My placemat told me I was a dog. No, I hadn't just had too many Kingfisher beers during my night out at the Flavour of India restaurant. I was just reading my placemat, which inexplicably told me that my Chinese birth sign was a dog. Thankfully, a little nationality confusion in the placemats was the only thing out of order at one of Hobart's premier Indian eateries.
Located in an eye-catching, metallic-fronted building on central Hobart's Macquarie Street, Flavour of India is a family-run business and the atmosphere reflects this. Despite the glitzy exterior, inside you immediately feel at home - if your home just happened to be decorated like a set from a Bollywood movie.
The staff are incredibly friendly and helpful, the decor is homely, without being kitsch, and the food? Yum.
More reasonably priced than many of its competitors, and with an extensive menu complete with plenty of choices for those of us with special dietary needs - halal, gluten-free, vegetarian, chilli-phobic - Flavour of India has a menu for every taste. Being a Hobart eatery, seafood is well represented, but they also do a great lamb, beef or chicken dish, and for vegetarians the dhal is out of this world.
Flavour of India has been in operation since 1999, and while its mainland sisters have experienced visits from such luminaries as Celine Dion, the Hobart version is more than happy to accommodate both a party group and a romantic table for two. All in all, it is a great place to take any member of your family - as long as they don't mind being told they are a dog, or a pig, or an ox.
Oh, and they do serve Kingfisher. It goes really well with the dhal.
Kate Gordon
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