Low Lighting, Good Decisions

Seated dinner · 30s & 40s · 26 guests · Belgravia

Twenty-six of us gathered at Kahani on an October evening, Belgravia doing its usual quiet work, low lighting, polished room, the sense you’ve made a good decision.

Rendezvous, better known for its larger (and slightly older) affairs, shifted things gently here. Same idea, good food, good wine, and people worth meeting, just a little more fluid.

Drinks from 7, then dinner, with guests moving between courses, enough to mix things up without making a point of it. By the second course, it had settled.

The Dawat menu delivered: lamb seekh kebabs, a notably good chicken makhani, and a chocolate flan no one argued with. A white Rioja, Tempranillo and Taylor’s Vintage Port saw things through.

Service was attentive and unshowy, happily keeping pace with a group enjoying itself.

“Food, ambience, location – all amazing.”
“Staff so attentive and friendly.”
“Top marks all around… it felt like the venue was just for us.”

People left slowly. Some later than intended. Which is usually all you need to know.