Indian fine dining on Bristol’s harbourside

Myristica is moving into the hub of Bristol’s harbourside dining scene to serve up its award-winning formula of Indian fine dining and quality curries in new premises on Bristol’s Welsh Back.

Taking the place of what was once Bibas Lounge Bar and Restaurant, the new site is closer to the water and benefits from increased footfall from tourists and local people who come to the harbourside to dine.

“This is a centre of food excellence with Severnshed, riverstation and Aqua well established, and now Myristica bringing something new to the mix. We were a bit tucked away in King Street and this site will give us much more exposure,” says owner Amit Lakhani.

It was always Amit’s dream to bring the five star Indian experience to Bristol and, together with chefs recruited from some of Indian’s top hotels, the restaurant has earned many accolades – including being called ‘Best in Bristol’ by the Evening Post.

Myristica specialises in authentic, regional-specific Indian food and the menu goes far beyond what you’ll find on the highly Anglicised menus of normal curry houses. The menu reads like an Indian food odyssey with exotic ingredients and a much more extensive choice of fish and vegetarian dishes and desserts, and whereas most Indian restaurants use one curry sauce as a base for all their dishes, at Myristica all sauces are made individually to order for true authenticity.

Sample dishes include starters of soft-shell crab crisp-fried in spicy batter, with crab meat sauteed with fenugreek seeds and curry leaves or tandoori king prawns £8.95; the house speciality main course of kormapista murgh (breast of chicken cooked in a mild cream sauce with ground pistachios and a hint of saffron) or lamb chettnadu (slow cooked on the bone, in a rich gravy of tomatoes, chillies, dates, and curry leaves) and tandoori pineapple, glazed with cinnamon and honey, with saffron ice-cream or grated carrots soaked in a sweet cardamom & nutmeg infused honey syrup, served warm with ice-cream, for dessert.

Despite losing the open plan kitchen feature at the new site, Amit is confident that Myristica will thrive on Welsh Back and it will be a great platform for growth of the business into a second site in Clifton in the near future.

Myristica is expected to re-open mid March, please visit the website or call for bookings. Myristica’s popular cookery school will re-commence on April 10.

For more information, visit: myristica.co.uk