Tandoor
Modern North Indian · Eixample, Barcelona · €€
Ivan Surinder took over Tandoor at 18 after his father — Barcelona's first Indian chef — died in 2011, then trained at Albert Adrià's Tickets. Contemporary North Indian on Carrer d'Aragó: tandoori chicken, butter chicken, palak paneer, the cult chocolate-cardamom samosa, €12 lunch.
The Delekta Review
Contemporary North Indian, lighter on ghee and spice-balanced for Western palates without losing the tradition. Lunch menu €12, à la carte €25–30; tandoori specialties from the clay oven.
Second-generation Indian restaurant in Eixample — Ivan Surinder carrying the kitchen his father, Barcelona's first Indian chef, built.
Ivan Surinder's father — the first Indian chef in Barcelona — opened the restaurant on Calabria in 2002; Ivan took over at 18 after his father's death in October 2011. Ivan trained nine months at Albert Adrià's Tickets before stepping up; he also runs Mirch in Raval and appears on TV3's cooking show Cuina com puguis.
Tandoori chicken (€14), butter chicken (€14.90), palak paneer (€14), tandoori sea bass. Chocolate-cardamom samosa (€8), oyster with mango and tamarind (€4.70), garlic naan (€4.50). Vegetable kebab with mint mayonnaise, malai kabak (chicken thigh marinated with yogurt and white pepper), baignan bartha (smoked eggplant purée with goat cheese on naan).
Carrer d'Aragó 8, Eixample (Esquerre); reservations via the website.
Quoted in
“A contemporary Indian cuisine, designed for all audiences: tasty, aromatic and, above all, accessible” — Arnau Raimundo · Metrópoli Abierta
What the critics say
- Tandoor
- Tandoor, un restaurante indio también para occidentales
- Entrevista con Ivan Surinder, cocinero del restaurante Tandoor
- Tienes que probarlo sí o sí: el restaurante indio más auténtico de Barcelona situado en pleno centro
Visit
- Address
- Carrer d'Aragó, 8, Eixample, 08015 Barcelona, Spain
- Phone
- +34 934 25 32 06
- Website
- restaurantetandoor.com
- Reservations
- Book a table
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