Malikas Restaurant

Modern décor and attentive service. The food is of high quality and is well presented, with a large amount of variety on the menu and good prices.
Surprisingly however, it has been very quiet, almost empty in fact, both evenings I have eaten here.

I got here around 18:30 on a rainy Wednesday night and was the only one there. It seems strange ’cause the décor is modern, service attentive and food good. I would have liked my dishes a bit spicier, but overall it was a great experience.

We have been there a few times now, always fantastic food and great service. We always come out thinking of how soon we can visit again. The restaurant is far better than many on the Cowley road.

Having been there once, it was moderately tasty but extremely unexciting.
The curry was as generic as it can possibly get — the sauces were relatively ‘nice’ but had very little to make me want to say what or why. If you wanted an archetypal example of a mediocre modern curry-​house, Jaipure would be it. Nicely presented in a minimalist, modern chique way — everything looks very sleek. Such seems to be the 21^st century paradigm for curry-​houses (Compare with the other newcomer to the Cowley Road, Majliss. Very similar interior design principles) — replacing the stereotypical miasma of painful ‘exotic’ artwork, statues of tigers and hideous background muzak.
But whilst the paradigm of the stereotypical curry-​house has changed in appearance, the food remains in the same vein: unexciting and oh so predictable. Granted, there’s always the aspect of knowing approximately what a dish will taste like, the balance of flavours, consistency and spice and so on — but there’s an excitement in how each chef will cook it in his or her own particular way. When you pick up on that, a dish becomes something unique and with an identity of its own. Food at restaurants like Jaipur seems to have come from a central stock of mediocrity which isn’t unpleasant, but resembles a high-​quality ready meal rather than something you’d go out to eat.
They also committed the cardinal sin of ‘meat-​put-​into-​pre-​made-​sauce’, wherein the meat itself is flavourless and merely heated through in the curry, so the blandness of the actual flesh offsets any actual flavour of the sauces — which were notably quite pleasant. Chutneys does much the same thing, and it’s always very disappointing.
So, Jaipur isn’t ‘bad’, per se. But there’s nothing special about it. And when there’s 6 other restaurants nearby, that’s a very sad thing. I suspect many will disagree and take a shine to it, as we all do to a particular place sometimes, but for me there was nothing to distinguish it from anywhere else.
Next, please.

get take out fromhere every sunday and it is fabulous! great kormaand you get loads freebies ifyou become a regular! Service is fast and friendly and the menu is huge. Reccommend sag aloo, chicken jaipuri and the korma!

This small and unassuming indian restaurant is tucked away on the Cowley road, up past the Carling Academy. What it lacks in size is so made up for by the quality of the dishes. They are presented on lovely white plates, not the usual stainless steel dishes. And oh! the flavours are just divine.
If you are wanted somewhere a bit different to dine along the Cowley Road, give this place a try. You won’t be disappointed.