][1]After much anticipation and even more delay, Mithas restaurant in Edinburgh’s Leith opened a couple of months back and the blog missed it.
It’s the latest offering from the family that ran the Khushis restaurant on Victoria Street. Unfortunately, that operation was badly damaged by a fire in 2008 and hasn’t re-opened since.
The new Mithas is a very different beast. If the old Khushis was a bright, buzzy and bling Indian restaurant then Mithas is aimed more at the fine dining market.
In fact, the blog recently received an email from their PR which called it the first Indian restaurant in Scotland to be aiming for a Michelin star.
When the very first Khushis restaurant opened in 1947, it introduced Edinburgh to the idea of Indian food.
If Mithas manages to get that Michelin star then it will be another first for the business and a considerable feather in their cap.
Plenty of Asian restaurants in London have got thumbs up from the Michelin inspectors. It would be a real coup if Mithas blazed a similar path in Scotland.
Certainly the new restaurant advises customers to forget about any preconceptions they may have about Indian food.
Dishes on the Mithas menu include whole lobster masala and intrguing new flavour combinations like raw banana and vegetable seekh or spinach and fig tikki.