Amirahs Kitchen - Speisekarte

"I have emailed this message to the restaurant with no response perhaps this may elicit one! My rating of 'poor ' here is relating to the cost and quality of the meal on this particular occasion, based on the following experience: We 've been coming to Amirah 's kitchen regularly for a couple of years and love your food. However on our last visit (Thursday 2nd April when ordering the Achari Paneer I was taken aback to be served a (large plate only partially filled with food, with none of the usual delicious accompanying pickled vegetables which make this dish such a treat. At first I thought it was a mistake as the plate was so large and more than half of it was bare, having only 4 pieces of paneer on it, but the waiter who served it to us said that the menu had recently changed. It seems that the style of cooking has also changed as, alongside the sad lack of pickled vegetables, there was none of the delicious tandoori style chargrilling taste to the cheese and the sauce was rather different, which I 'm sure wasn 't mentioned on the menu. (perhaps it had not yet been updated? The waiter kindly offered to bring some of the pickled broccoli which I gladly accepted and he brought it over in a separate dish. In terms of service therefore, we have nothing to be concerned about, but I am concerned at the price the £10.95 for the original dish with accompanying cauliflower broccoli and a nice salad garnish always seemed a little pricey but I was prepared to pay it as I could never find anything to match it elsewhere and I really loved it. Now though it seems the £10.95 is simply for 4 modest slices of paneer with a little sauce and literally nothing else. I 'm finding it hard to reconcile this and feel that it was in any way good value for money. If the quality of the cheese had been its usual standard perhaps I would have been willing to accept this, though I would probably not order it again at this price. However unfortunately the quality was not top notch there was a very hard inedible bit of cheese to one edge, which would indicate it had been stored incorrectly and dried at the edges was old? I was taken aback by this as your quality is usually so high. If this was our first visit, it may well have been our last as to be honest we felt a bit ripped off! There is a manager who has often engaged us in conversation, with whom it 's a joy to speak as he 's obviously passionate about Amirah 's. Had he been there we would definitely have spoken to him about these concerns, but unfortunately he was not there and I didn 't get the sense that the waiter, as accommodating as he was, would necessarily have been able to highlight our concerns to management. We have always loved your food and your staff are charming, and we hope that other dishes on the menu remain at your previous high quality with this revised paneer dish being an exception. So whilst we wouldn 't stop coming to Amirah 's because of this, I feel it would be helpful for you to know that we think there is an issue here. If there 's any way you could bring the original delicious paneer dish back onto the menu that would be fantastic. If not, perhaps you could consider reflecting the size of the new dish in the price? As it was most certainly more a modest 'starter size ' dish than a main."