Horn Please, Fitzroy: Melbourne Indian restaurant menu & style
Horn Please in Melbourne offers a fun, inventive take on Indian food that dares to divert from standard Indian restaurant menus.
Horn Please in Melbourne is a far cry from the standard Indian curry house. One of the many fine places to eat and drink in the Fitzroy neighbourhood, this Indian restaurant marries kitsch with inventiveness.
The restaurant’s name comes from the hand-painted slogans you’ll often see on the backs of cars in India. There’s plenty more that comes from India, too, including the deliberately cheesy portraits and hand-written Hindi proverbs on the walls.
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The overall vibe is young, fun and tongue-in-cheek. And the menu is a little bit different.
Horn Please menu
For a start, there’s no enormous menu of ever-so-slightly different curries. The menu at Horn Please is kept deliberately small and regularly changing. This is to ensure that each dish is made with fresh ingredients. It starts with street food, such as onion bhajis and papadi chaat. The latter is, very roughly, an Indian equivalent of nachos and salsa.
The bigger dishes are in the “from the pots” section of the menu. These include some classic Indian restaurant staples such as beef madras and butter chicken. But Horn Please also offers some dishes that are a little more playful and unusual.
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Melbourne Indian restaurant dishes
The coconut fish curry, for example, contains Blue Grenadier in a coconut milk curry with turmeric and tempered mustard seed. The aloo baingan is one of several vegetarian dishes. It brings together spiced chunks of dutch cream potatoes, aubergine ratatouille and mango powder.
Horn Please regards the kulfi ice cream dessert as its speciality, and also offers an impressive selection of craft beers.
Horn Please is at 167 St Georges Road in Fitzroy North. The full menu is on the restaurant website.
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