Indian · Halal · South Norwood
Good food.
Great flavour.
Sitar
4 Portland Road, South Norwood, London, SE25 4PF
Open daily 5:00–10:30 PM
020 8654 4291Sitar — Indian takeaway in South Norwood
Sitar is a halal Indian takeaway at 4 Portland Road in South Norwood, London SE25 4PF. Its 168-dish menu, with prices taken from the restaurant’s own ordering website, runs from balti, bhuna, korma, jalfrezi, pathia, madras and vindaloo mains through tandoori grills, birany, fish curries and a wide list of breads, rice and vegetable sides.
The Food Standards Agency register lists a hygiene rating of 4 for Sitar. Its 168 saved dishes, with prices, are taken from the restaurant’s own ordering website. Dishes on the saved menu include Lime Pickle, Chicken/Lamb Ceylon, Fish Bhuna.
Balti, bhuna and birany
Balti comes nine ways — chicken, chicken jalfrezi, chicken massala, kufta, lamb and paneer at £9.95, prawn at £9.95, king prawn at £12.95 and vegetable at £8.95 — and bhuna is the other slow-cooked sauce to build a meal around, with chicken at £7.50, lamb and prawn at £7.95, chicken tikka at £8.95 and king prawn at £12.95. The birany list runs to nine choices, from vegetable birany at £7.95 through chicken at £8.95 to the Sitar Special birany at £10.95 and king prawn birany at £12.95.
Tandoori grills, tikka and chef’s specials
Tikka mains come off the tandoor with chicken at £7.50, garlic chicken and chilli chicken at £8.95, lamb at £9.95, salmon at £11.95 and king prawn at £13.95, and tandoori chicken is available as a half bird at £6.95 or a full one at £11.95. The chef’s specials cover Chicken/Lamb Ceylon at £8.95 and Murgi Massala at £9.50, while the starter list runs from lamb or vegetable samosa at £3.85 and sheek kebab or chicken pakura at £4.50 to salmon tikka at £6.95.
Breads, rice and vegetable sides
Breads are the widest part of the menu: eight kinds of nan, from plain at £2.50 and garlic, keema, peshwari or stuffed at £3.20 to cheese, chicken tikka and spicy cheese at £3.50, with parathas at £2.95–£3.50 and chapati at £1.50. Rice is served nine ways — plain at £2.60, pilau at £2.95 and garlic, lemon, coconut, peas, onion-fried, chilli and special fried at £3.45. Vegetarian orders are well covered by the eight bhaji at £3.95 (onion, bhindi, brinjal, cauliflower, chana, mushroom, sag aloo and sag bhaji), mixed vegetable curry and mixed dry vegetable at £3.95, and five curry sauces at £2.95–£3.50, with papadams, mango chutney, mint sauce and lime pickle at £0.75 and raitha at £2.50 to finish.
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