One of the joys of the new List Eating and Drinking Guide being published is that the 5pm Dining blog can catch up on any new places that we may have missed out on.

Here at the blog, we pound the streets, scour the internet and employ a small, illegal army of drone operators to track down the latest new openings.

But occasionally, one or two slip through the net.

Which is exactly what has happened with Navadhanya, an adventurous Indian restaurant which opened on Edinburgh’s Haymarket Terrace back in… mumble, mumble, cough… December.

Refined, innovative dishes

The List Eating and Drinking Guide praises its ‘refined, innovative dishes’ and its website notes that the award-winning chefs and staff have CVs which feature lots of five star hotels and Michelin-starred restaurants such as London’s Tamarind.

You can check the menu here but dishes like the lamb pasaliyan – Scottish lamb rack marinated with malt vinegar, black pepper, mint chutney and spiced aubergine mash – certainly promise to cut more of a culinary dash than another portion of chicken tikka masala.

The kitchens at the nearby Mumbai Mansion on Morrison Street harbour similar ambitions. The Head Chef there is Pramod Nawani who headed up the much missed Mithas fine dining Indian restaurant in Leith.

Despite gaining two AA Rosettes, Mithas didn’t work out. However, its intention to move Anglo-Indian cooking beyond the curryhouse has lived on in The Mumbai Mansion and now Navadhanya.

This 5pm Dining blogger has scoffed more than his fair share of classic jalfrezi, tandoori chicken and samosas and there will always be a place in my ghee-clogged heart for a rogan josh.

Contemporary take on Indian cuisine

However, it is great to see some restaurateurs take a different path and present a more contemporary take on Indian cuisine.

You can give The Mumbai Mansion a whirl by booking through 5pm Dining.

Today, two people can enjoy a 15% discount on the la carte menu or a 10% discount on any lunchtime tasting menu.

Alternatively, you could go the full bhoona and have the nine course tasting menu at £29.95 a head.