Venue: Vasant Square Mall, Vasant Kunj
Date: 5 August 2016

Tipu Sultan is a small Mughlai restuarant on the ground floor of Vasant Square Mall. It is located quite close to Kebab Gali  that we reviewed some time back. Tipu Sultan is a family owned place and the warmth is pretty evident in their food as well as hospitality.

We went to Tipu Sultan on a Friday evening for an early dinner. The restaurant is very simple and unpretentious. Thank heavens they have not made it a theme based restaurant and looks like their entire focus is on food. We liked this. It’s a place where one would go to just have good food without any distractions.

We started with Dahi Kebab which is their recommended veg starter and Keeme ki tangri, a Tipu Sultan signature dish. Dahi Kebabs were tender, moist and delicious. Keeme ki tangri were big pieces of juicy chicken stuffed with keema and cheese. Both the dishes were subtle in taste and did not have any over bearing mirchi to overpower the taste of dahi or chicken. On chef’s special recommendation we also tried their galouti kebab and didn’t regret it. We had these starters with lime soda and buttermilk.

For the main course we had chicken biryani with salan and raita. They have Hyderabadi as well as Awadh style biryanis. We opted for Awadh biryani which was milder in taste. The salan was delicious and elevated the taste of this somewhat bland biryani.

For desserts we had Gulab ki rabri which was too rich for our liking. Instead we liked their Phirni much better. It was flavourful, fragrant with right amount of sweetness. Our sweet tooth got better of us and we went for a second serving of this dessert.

This restaurant is more of a food place rather than a party or celebration joint. But it was heartening to see fellow diners celebrating a birthday here. Well, for a lot of Delhiites good food is all they need to celebrate an occasion and Tipu Sultan delivers with good taste, quality ingredients and prompt service. Not out of the world, but definitely grounded.

Big Thumbs Up.