Shortly after I reviewed India Today on The Strand I asked people to suggest their favourite Indian restaurants and the one mentioned most often was this particular branch of Great Spice. There are others in Mount Maunganui and Papamoa, four in all I think, but this one - which has also won various awards - kept cropping up.
So last Sunday we met up with the same regular dining companions at Bureta. The restaurant is clean and tidy and usassuming inside and looks like it would seat around fifty. We were lucky to strike a still-sunny lunchtime so the four of us sat outside, the BYO license allowing us to enjoy a stunning bottle of Rasteau from France's Rhone Valley. Corkage is a very reasonable $6 per bottle.
There is a large menu which merits much deeper exploration than just a lunch, but you gotta start somewhere. We started with chicken and prawns:
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