Review of The Elephant Linnégatan – by Richard L.
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The Elephant on Linnégatan is an Indian restaurant with a mild street food focus. The room is slightly cramped but generically pleasant and colorful.
The menu is quite extensive but on the whole easy to understand. We are a great company and for starters many order a Samsoa demolished (half, partially crushed lamb pirogi with beans, tomato sauce and herbal yogurt). It tastes good, slightly spicy, but the size of the portions varies tremendously. It's a little strange! For the main course I order Kobi (?) kebab: grilled pieces of lamb with salad of shredded cabbage and a mild onion sauce. It tastes okay, but not as powerful as you'd expect from an Indian dish. The layout is also a bit reddish, on a too large dish, and with small and apartaccessories. My portion is also not completely warm when served. The company was certainly large, but we had on the other hand booked a table well in advance.
The biggest taste experience is the restaurant's peshwari naan bread, a naan with sweet almond and raisin filling spiced with guess-wise cardamom. Sublimely! Mangolassin is also of good class.
Competition among Indian restaurants is recognized as fierce, not least because prices are often at about the same level (main course for 120-150 SEK). Therefore, it is also easy to make comparisons. At The Elephant, my occasional experience suggests that the food is not tasty enough and well-prepared for a three-star rating, even though the service is even cordial. It is a habil Indian, family driven and in more modern vintage - two things that I encourage! But no more than that.