🔴 @grandtrunk_road 🔴 Located in South Woodford
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A hidden gem of east London. And a spot that is on Michelin guide. We are getting a lot of renowned chefs from central London, in East London. Half the stuff members are from the famous Tamarind. Food reflects the idea of the journey of grand trunk road, which is the longest road covering India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and even Afghanistan. The menu has a little bit of all of these with the modern touch
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Pictured above are:-
🔳 Peshwari Lamb Chops (£28.50)
🔳 Lahori Murgh Kebab (£17.95)
🔳 Awadhi Dum Gosht Biryani (£21.95)
🔳 Amritsari Butter Chicken (£18.95)
🔳 Royal Lamb Shank (£21.95)
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The peshwari lamb chops was spot on. High quality chops, excellent flavours plus tender and soft. Exactly how lamb chops meant to be. And french trimmed style chops tend to never disappoint. Defo must try 
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Lahori Murgh Kebab is always a must order in most Indian places. As you can judge most chicken quality with these dishes. These were chicken thigh and it was excellent. Only thing would’ve wanted is more flavour element to it. Like thick flavour paste on the chicken.
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Biryani was flavour town. It had all these flavours and aroma hitting my nose. Had small chunks of green chillis as well, as requested, as I love my spice. I love my saucy Biryanis but these again for pilao style Biryani was epic. This is the only Biryani dish they have and I can see why they are confident with the one
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Butter chicken better than most other butter chicken. I know alot of place do tangy butter chicken which I personally don’t like. This had good flavours. And added spice to it and gave a little kick, it’s not the best I’ve had but defo a really tasty one
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The royal lamb shank is slow cooked dish and  had a taste of Nihari to the gravy. I think the shank wasn’t cooked fully hence why it was abit tough on the outside. As I saw other videos, the meat pulled apart. Wasn’t the case on my shank unfortunately. Defo must’ve been a one off situation
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All in all defo a great spot if you want central London quality food in east London. Service and all that as expected from a Michelin guide

- Lamb & Chicken Halal
- Alcohol Served In Premises

@halalhunt's review of Grand Trunk Road South Woodford on Instagram

Grand Trunk Road

A real mixed bag ranging from sensational deserts to an awful pseudo biryani.
We went for a birthday celebration and this was a convenient location, saving us the trek into town.
Ambience and decor were conducive to fine dining. The tables were full but it was not noisy and no awful music.
One of our party has a serious shellfish allergy and they were very considerate about that.
The starters were very good. We got about 6 I think. Grilled chickens and fish. All the fish dishes were perfectly cooked.
We ordered truffle and mushroom naan which had no taste of truffle or mushroom. Very disappointing.
The major disappointment was the lamb biryani. This was not a biryani by any stretch, it was more like a pilaf. The lamb pieces contained inedible grissly bits which is unforgivable bearing in mind what they were charging for it.
The aubergine dish was right up my street.
The deserts were sensational. We ordered mango brulee and a weird sounding avocado and rose icecream, which is worth going back for again and again.
I also ordered a coffee which was surprisingly excellent.
This is a pricey place so they cannot serve substandard food if they want customers to return.

Service was absolutely amazing, couldn’t fault anyone at the shop. However the food on the other hand, the flavours didn’t satisfy my pallet. Flavours were alright, but nothing to scream about. Nice experience, but if you want pure flavour, better at a local spot.

Been twice, once many years ago and yesterday. Yesterday's meal was utterly scrumptious, packed with flavour. The set menu is excellent value although would forgo the dessert next time as it wasn't so good.

Chicken 2 way was excellent as was the lamb ghost. Ordered an extra peshawari naan as it doesn't come with many peices per person with the set menu. This too was high end naan. If I'm being critical the poppadom portion is very small.

Overall a great dining experience. Service is attentive and friendly.

Service was excellent, the starters were top class. However the main was not great at all. The lamb biryani had no taste and was boring a baby can eat that no spice. The chicken tava was not great at all. Overall I gave it 3 stars due to the very expensive bill and the main was bad.

This amazing michelin starred restaurant gave me an extraordinary service as well as exquisite meals.. huge variety of the menus + staffs are very knowledgeable on what to recommend with a courtesy. Thanks for the amazing experience and I hope to visit again soon.

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