Menu Redesigning: Darbar Indian Restaurant

This menu review discusses the menu of Darbar Indian Restaurant in Braddon, Canberra, Australia. It highlights the lacking factors in the menu and suggests changes that can be incorporated for improvement.

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Introduction
The menu of a restaurant is its overall reflection (Ozdemir & Caliskan 2014). This menu
review will discuss about the menu of an Indian restaurant in Braddon, Canberra, Australia
called Darbar Indian. Darbar Indian Restaurant is located in 139/24 Lonsdale Street,
Braddon ACT (Zomato 2018b). Its name Darbar Means king’s place, traditionally a courtyard
or meeting place for royals to dine. The head chef of Restaurant is Chef Vinay (Canberra
2018). He makes the best use of locally present Indian ingredients and provides the customers
with traditional Indian food. It is known for serving authentic and traditional delicacies from
the diverse Indian Cuisine along with dishes that include their personal innovative twists. It is
known for its use of original and authentic Indian spices in their dishes. They claim to buy the
spices used from the shops of Mode3 building in London streets newest Indian
Establishments to prove the extent of its authenticity. Butter Chicken and Chicken Korma
includes some of its specialities and these truly portray the essence of the Indian cuisine
(DarbarCanberra 2018).
Menu Review
The menu design of Darbar Indian Restaurant is extremely simple and plain. It is divided into
6 segments Entrees, Main Course, Rice, Breads, Sides and Banquets (Zomato 2018a). The
entrees consists of a wide range of Indian veg and non-veg starters some of which are
authentic traditional dishes and some are some new no traditional but Indian dishes. The main
course section is a mash up of vegetarian, non-vegetarian curries and even some rice dishes
mostly traditional. The rice has only rice. The bread section Authentic Indian breads. The
sides section consists of salads and pickles. The menu in the end has a section dedicated for
the customers who come in groups ranging from 2 to more which, is the banquet section
which has a fixed combination of varies dishes in fixed price. The nutritional values are not
defined in the menu. Traditionally Indian food is quite spicy and requires a lot of oil to cook
it is not considered to be very light (Rana 2017). However Indian cuisine has a lot of
vegetables, meats, lentils and good carbohydrate rich foods (Scott 2018). This allows
consumers to consume food rich in nutrition.
Lacking factors in the menu:

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 Very plain design which is not visually appealing and interesting and might fail to
interest the customer (Lynn & McCall 2008).
 Sections such as the entrée and main course have some unnecessary items.
 The Biriyanis’ in the main course section must be a part of the rice section as it
mostly consists of flavoured rice cooked with chicken (Umachandran et al. 2018).
 Absence of a separate vegetarian section.
 Spelling error. In place of Masala Dosai it must be Masala Dosa (Dictionary 2018).
 Absence of a fast food section (filling food in lesser price).
 Absence of a Beverages section.
 No different column for the prices which makes it confusing. Every menu must have a
different column for item prices so that it is helpful for the customer to make suitable
choices. (Magnini & Kim 2016).
 No description for items in the rice, breads and sides section. Every item of a menu
must have a description so that it is helpful for the customer to make suitable choices
(Filimonau & Krivcova 2017).
 Absence of dessert section.
Changes that can be incorporated:
 More attractive design.
 Different column for prices.
 Removal of some dishes.
 Correction of spelling.
 Shifting Biriyanis’ into the rice section.
 Incorporation of a fast food section.
 Incorporation of a Beverages section.
 Incorporation of description for items in the Rice, breads and sides section.
 Incorporate dessert section.

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Old menu
Source: (Zomato 2018a)

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Source: (Zomato 2018a)

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Source: (Zomato 2018a)

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Source: (Zomato 2018a)

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Source: (Zomato 2018a)

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Source: (Zomato 2018a)
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menu#tabtop>.

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Darbar Indian
Restaurant
139/24 London Street
Braddon, ACT 2612
Contact no. [phone]
Website:
www.darbarcanberra.com
Open all Seven days:
Monday: Dinner is served from 5:30PM to 10:00PM

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Tuesday to Sunday: Lunch: is served from 12:00PM to
2:30PM, and Dinner is served from: 5:30PM to 10:00PM and
on Friday and Saturday: Dinner is served until 11:00PM
Entrees
Items
Prices
Paneer tikka 13$
Cottage cheese marinated in gingers, garlic paste, curd
And spices cooked along with capsicum in tadoor served
With mint chutney
Vaggie Samosa 11$
Spiced vegetables stuffed in thin pastry and deep fried
aaloo Tikki Chole 13$
Deep fried Potato Pattie served with chickpea curry and chutneys
Chicken Tikka 14$
Chicken marinated in ginger garlic paste and curd along with
spices and cooked in a tandoor
Prawn Vepudu 17$
King sized prawns fried in spices and onions
Bamboo Charcoal Tuna Fish 15$
Tuna simmered in spices and fried along with Bamboo charcoal imparted corn starch
Pulled Lamb Shoulder 14$

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Lamb shoulder cooked and tossed with spices
Jal Pari Hariyali (chefs special) 17$
Salmon marinated with spices and lemon juice and pan fried
Main course (Non-
vegetarian)
Butter Chicken 19$
Tandoori Grilled chicken cooked in spices, Indian sauce and butter
Chicken Chat Pat (Chef Speciality)
19$ Chicken cooked in mystery gravy
Roganjosh Punjabi 20$
Lamb cooked in authentic north Indian curry
Lamb Shanks
22$
Slow cooked lamb for 8 hours with whole spices and vegetables
Fish Makhni 21$
Filets of Hilsa fish cooked in tandoor and simmered in royal sauce
Scallop & Prawn Lababdar
21$
King sized scallops and prawns cooked in Indian sauce and spices

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Vegetarian
Malai Kofta 17$
Potato and cheese Dumplings, tossed in curry leaves, mustard seeds
and cooked in Mughlai gravy
Butter Paneer Masala 17$
Cottage cheese cooked with butter and tomato sauce with spices
and cream
Palak Paneer 17$
Cottage cheese cooked in spinach, cream and onion gravy
Dal Bhukara 16$
Kidney beans and black dhal simmered for 12 hours, cooked
with tomato and cream over tandoor
Kadhai Vegetables 17$
Stir fried Vegetables cooked in traditional sauce

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Rice
Special Chicken Biryani
22$
Flavoured basmati rice cooked in chicken curry, saffron and yoghurt.
Vegetable Biryani 17$
Flavoured basmati rice cooked in vegetable curry, saffron and yoghurt.
Hyderabadi Mutton Biryani
23$
Flavoured basmati rice cooked in mutton curry, saffron and yoghurt.
Egg Biryani 18$
Flavoured basmati rice cooked in egg curry, saffron and yoghurt.
Fish Biryani 20$
Flavoured basmati rice cooked in fish curry, saffron and yoghurt.
Saffron Basmati Rice 3$
Steamed Basmati rice flavoured with saffron

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Breads
Plain Naan
3.50$
Refined flour dough rolled and cooked in tandoor and
butter is spred all over.
Tandoori Roti
3.50$
Whole wheat flour dough rolled and cooked in tandoor and
butter is spread all over.
Lacha Paratha
4.50$
Flour dough rolled using special technique to form layers
and cooked in oil.
Keema Naan 6$
Naan stuffed with flavoured minced mutton.
Cheese Garlic Naan 6$
Naan dough flavoured with garlic and stuffed with cheese

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Sides
Pappadum 3.90$
Deep fried thin rolled and dried lentil dough.
Pickle 3.90$
Made with spiced mixed vegetables and oil after ageing
Salad 4.90$
Tomato, Onion, Cucumber and Carrot cut in round shapes and
served raw
Raita 3.90$
Grated cucumber added to yoghurt
Mango Chutney
3.90$
Spiced mango cooked with sweetners
Beverages
Tea 5$
Tea leaves boiled in water, cow milk and sugar
Lassi 7$
Sweetened and thinned yoghurt

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Lemonade 3$
Lemon squished into water and salt and sugar is added as per taste
Fast foods
Masala Dosa 15$
Thin pancakes made with Rice and lentil paste served with spiced
potato, coconut chutney and sambar
Keema Dosa 17$
Thin pancakes made with Rice and lentil paste served along
with minced and spiced mutton, coconut chutney and sambar
Chole Bhature 16$
Refined flour dough made with yoghurt rolled and deep
fried served with chick pea curry
Pav Bhaji 16$
Bread served with spiced minced vegetable curry
Dessert
Gulab Jamun 4$
Deep fried flour and milk powder dough soaked in sugar syrup
Saffron Kulfi 7$
Freezed flavoured condensed milk flavoured with sugar and saffron
Rasmalai 6$

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Cottage cheese balls dipped in sweetened condensed milk flavoured with
saffron

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Banquets
Special Banquet (For 4 people) 50$
Entrée: Chicken Tikka, Prawn Vepudu, Jal Pari Hariyali
Mains: Butter Chicken, Roghanjosh, Fish Makhni, Prawn Lababdar
Sides: Pappadums, Raita, Rice, Naan, Mint Sauce
Darbar Banquet (For 2 people) 40$
Entrees: Chicken Tikka, Pulled Lamb Shoulder, Bamboo Charcoal Tuna Fish
Mains: Butter chicken, Roghanjosh, Desi Lamb Shanks
Sides: Pappadums, Raita, Rice, Naan, Mint Sauce
Darbar Veggie Banquet (For 2 people)
35$
Entrees: Vegie Samosa, Paneer tikka, Aaloo tikki chole
Mains: Butter Paneer Masala, Dal Bhukara, Kadhai vegetables
Sides: Pappadums, Raita, Rice, Naan, Mint Sauce