There are ‘Arjees favourites’ like machi ki salan (pan-fried salmon fillet cooked in a rich Bengali sauce) and keema mutter (lean mince lamb with peas in black pepper sauce), and the full repertoire of curry house classics like chicken vindaloo, lamb rogan and king prawn dopiaza. Mains start at £7.50 for a veggie biriyani and rise to £12.50 for the sizzling jugalbandi tandoori mixed platter (chicken tikka, sheesh kebab, tandoori chicken and lamb chops). Starters range from the £3.50 onion bhajee to £6 for the jhinga chaat - king prawns cooked in shallots, mild awadi spices, cherry tomatoes and fresh coriander. I’m told Mahfuzul wants The Arjee Bhajee to be regarded as a community restaurant and he already has big plans to open others in local neighbourhoods around Bristol.īut what about the food? Well, the menu is pretty much your standard Indian choice and there aren’t too many dishes you won’t have encountered before. Since then, it was been run more as a takeaway than a full-blown restaurant but that is starting to change.įood at The Arjee Bhajee in Staple Hill (Image: The Arjee Bhajee) It’s certainly a striking name for a contemporary Indian restaurant and so is the branding and ethos of this new business, which started at the start of the pandemic. Mahfuzul’s wife comes from South London and they liked the Cockney rhyming slang term ‘argy-bargy’ (it basically means a quarrel) so much that they set about copyrighting the name for their restaurant. The result is The Arjee Bhajee in Staple Hill, which used to be the popular greasy spoon cafe Deb’s. The son of Bristol restaurateurs - his dad is one of the owners of The Old India in St Nicholas Street - Mahfuzul returned to the city with his wife and daughter to set up his own restaurant. READ MORE: Owners of oldest pizza-house face eviction 'within days' The name clearly struck a chord with Bristol-born Mahfuzal Haque, who grew up in Easton before moving to London to work in the music business.
The fictional restaurant was run by the Masood family in the 1990s before being turned into an Italian trattoria. EastEnders fans of a certain vintage might just about remember an Indian restaurant in the show called The Argee Bhajee.
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