Benares fine Indian dining

I want to introduce you to Benares, a fine dining Indian restaurant, concentrating on modern ‘fusion’ Indian food and it really does taste as good as it looks! It is hidden away about 300 metres down from Sukhumvit Rd on the right hand side behind their Indian street food restaurant Chowpati (also excellent without the 5 star setting).

My discerning guests for dinner last week were two hotel GM’s – so they know a bit about quality cuisine. One ate vegetarian, as he was recognising vegetarian week, and the other like me was a carnivore. We let the restaurant suggest the menu and they served us one of their “tasting menus’. We were treated to the 9 course but they start at 6 and go up to 10 courses! I have to tell you – you could have rolled me down the road afterwards… I was so full of quality Indian food!

We didn’t drink wine and settled for Asahi beer, which has a nice clear clean taste, which complimented the spices and the sublime food that just kept coming.

I could never explain the complexity of the menu or do justice to the food – so best that I just print the menu we ate and let you look at the quality of the food.