Viva Lewes Issue #134 November 2017
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FOOD<br />
Chaula's<br />
Gujurati goodness<br />
The Pelham arms<br />
HIGH ST.<br />
LEWES<br />
A Great British pub,<br />
a warm welcome,<br />
wonderful food & ambience<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
Today I’m not that ravenous, so I only fill my<br />
tray twice. My record is four times. Chaula’s<br />
restaurant has just enjoyed its tenth birthday, and<br />
I can’t believe it was only this summer I started<br />
making its lunch buffet a regular date.<br />
I guess when Chaula was doing her sums to<br />
work out how much the ‘fill your plate as many<br />
times as you want’ deal should cost, she worked<br />
out an average person’s consumption, taking into<br />
account a couple of either-way outliers. I reckon,<br />
with my ‘good’ appetite, I must be pretty close to<br />
being an outlying outlier. I go there once a week,<br />
on a Monday generally, and I love it.<br />
It costs £8, and you get a metal tray with three<br />
compartments, which you can refill as often as<br />
you want from a buffet table containing at least<br />
twelve different items. It always follows a pattern,<br />
with a meat main and a veggie main and all<br />
sorts of add-ons: today we have chicken hydrabadi,<br />
sag aloo, tarka daal, potato bhaji, spring rolls,<br />
rice, naan bread, poppadoms, raita, chutney, a<br />
cooked cabbage side, fresh salad, and some burfi<br />
sweets. A chap comes and fills the bowls when<br />
something looks like it’s running out.<br />
I always take a book, but the food is so absorbing<br />
I rarely get to read it. Chaula’s food is Gujurati,<br />
and she takes pains to make it here how it’d be<br />
made back home: it’s spicy without ever being<br />
too-hot-to-handle. Today’s highlight is the<br />
chicken hydrabadi: succulent chunks of meat in a<br />
tasty tomatoey sauce: the week before it was the<br />
vegetable jalfrezi. Next week, who knows? AL<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong>’s first<br />
Smokehouse<br />
in a Pub!<br />
Hand Crafted Food - Local Suppliers<br />
Best Burgers for Miles<br />
Award winning Sunday Roasts<br />
Vegetarian, vegan & gluten free options<br />
Abyss Brewing beers brewed on site<br />
GREAT VENUE FOR CELEBRATIONS<br />
children & dog friendly<br />
OPENING TIMES<br />
Monday<br />
Bar 4pm to 11pm<br />
Tuesday to Thursday<br />
Bar 12 noon to 11pm<br />
Food 12 noon to 2.30pm & 6 to 9.30pm<br />
Friday & Saturday<br />
Bar 12 noon to Midnight<br />
Food 12 noon to 2.30pm & 6 to 9.30pm<br />
Sunday<br />
Bar 12 noon to 10.30pm<br />
Food 12 noon to 8pm<br />
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Book online @ www.thepelhamarms.co.uk<br />
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