One of London’s best Indian restaurants is offering a special Mrs. Doubtfire Experience menu.
The award-winning gourmet Colonel Saab restaurant has collaborated with the hit West End musical Mrs. Doubtfire at the Shaftesbury Theatre to create a “multi-sensorial” five-course pre-theatre dinner and cocktail priced at £60 per head, as well as a two-course £35 set lunch menu.
The menus have been created to celebrate the first anniversary of the sell-out musical. The experience starts with a colour-changing Chachi 420 gin cocktail, named after the hit Bollywood remake of Mrs. Doubtfire. Other courses include a “Help is on its way, dear” corn and roasted cumin amuse bouche, Matchmaker Noor Mandi chicken tikka, Doubt Everything Krubeni aloo tikka, Dear’s Delight Butter Chicken inspired by the 1993 film’s famous spatchcock chicken scene, “My First Day as a Woman” Anglo Indian Chicken Chop, “Poppet’s Paneer Pakeezah” and “Hellooo!” Gutti Vankaya.
The meal ends with grand finale involving liquid nitrogen, referencing the movie’s iconic kitchen fire scene.
The film starred Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan and Harvey Finestein. The musical, written by John O’Farrell, stars Gabriel Vick as Daniel, the out-of-work actor who disguises himself as Scottish nanny, Euphegenia Doubtfire, to gain access to his children. Laura Tebbutt played their mother, Miranda.
Colonel Saab owner Roop Partap Choudhary commented:
“We’re thrilled to partner with Mrs. Doubtfire on this exciting, theatrical menu experience.
“The film and the Chachi 420 Bollywood remake are huge movies in India and the UK, and we enjoyed transforming the story from stage to plate with our multi-sensory Mrs. Doubtfire dining experience.”
The production has been described as “genuinely funny” by Time Out, “a complete joy” by The Daily Telegraph and “wildly entertaining” by City AM.
Roop Partap Choudhary created his two Colonel Saab restaurants in Holborn and Trafalgar Square as a “love letter” to his family and India. In the last year, the Holborn restaurant has been named the UK’s Best Asian Restaurant at the Asian Curry Awards (the Oscars of the curry world), Best Restaurant in Feed the Lion awards and was awarded Harden’s Certificate of Achievement.
The restaurant at the former Holborn Town Hall and on William IV Street are a tribute to Choudhary’s travels across India with his mother, Mrs Binny Choudhary and father, Colonel Manbeer, who was given the honorific name, ‘Colonel Saab’, while serving in the Indian Army.
Roop spent a year retracing his father’s footsteps across India, to curate contemporary twists on dishes passed down through the generations of people they met. The restaurant’s Décor include family photos, leather banquettes, orange walls and 48 hand-blown chandeliers.
Fans of the musical can even buy a Mrs. Doubtfire apron (complete with burnt out breast holes) and despite the theme of the menu, the waiting staff do not address guests as “poppets”.
For more information and to make a reservation, please visit: www.colonelsaab.co.uk, and book tickets to the show itself, please visit: www.mrsdoubtfiremusical.co.uk.
Author Bio:
Kevin Pilley is a former professional cricketer and chief staff writer of PUNCH magazine. His humour, travel, food and drink work appear worldwide, and he has been published in over 800 titles.
Photographs courtesy of Colonel Saab
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