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Customers often ask me why I chose 'Spice Dabba' as the restaurant's name and what it means. Most Indian restaurant names in the UK sound indian. Some names hark back to the days of the Raj. Others try to conjour the romance of the Maharajas and if owners are really stumped or lack imagination, then there is always The Taj Mahal, Everest or an 'exotic' spice to fall back on!Customers often ask me why I chose 'Spice Dabba' as the restaurant's name and what it means. Most Indian restaurant names in the UK sound indian. Some names hark back to the days of the Raj. Others try to conjour the romance of the Maharajas and if owners are really stumped or lack imagination, then there is always The Taj Mahal, Everest or an 'exotic' spice to fall back on!
Naming a restaurant is a lot like naming a baby. It is an emotional and rather stressful process as you have to please a lot of people by your choice! It cannot sound too ethnic or people will not know how to pronounce it. Using a standard name is bad for business because the name will be lost in an internet search if people are trying to book a table. Experiment with a kooky restaurant name and chances are the punters will expect some kind of kooky indian cooking.
What I was looking for was a simple name that would convey my cooking style - simple, elegant and unpretentious. So in that sense 'Spice Dabba' (dabba means box in most major Indian languages) was the perfect name because this traditional circular box contains enough spices to rustle up a simple meal and it is found in practically every indian kitchen. Simple!
Spice Dabba was initially started as a small-scale home delivery service. The intention was merely to introduce people to South Indian food and on a personal level, to record regional and family recipes and circulate them as much as possible. We just wanted to cook from home, participate in street markets and stay quite low-key. Never in our wildest dreams did we think that our tiny project would morph into a restaurant!
The one policy Krishnan and I have followed from the beginning is to never call our food 'authentic' mainly because where food is concerned, what is authentic to one may not be authentic to another. All that we do is follow the recipe entrusted to us as accurately as possible.
Out of deep respect for our South Indian culinary traditions, Krishnan and I have decided that for as long as Spice Dabba exists, we will use traditional recipes so that each dining experience is unique and we hope to incorporate the best of what Scotland has to offer so that diners experience the best of both worlds!
Naming a restaurant is a lot like naming a baby. It is an emotional and rather stressful process as you have to please a lot of people by your choice! It cannot sound too ethnic or people will not know how to pronounce it. Using a standard name is bad for business because the name will be lost in an internet search if people are trying to book a table. Experiment with a kooky restaurant name and chances are the punters will expect some kind of kooky indian cooking.
What I was looking for was a simple name that would convey my cooking style - simple, elegant and unpretentious. So in that sense 'Spice Dabba' (dabba means box in most major Indian languages) was the perfect name because this traditional circular box contains enough spices to rustle up a simple meal and it is found in practically every indian kitchen. Simple!
Spice Dabba was initially started as a small-scale home delivery service. The intention was merely to introduce people to South Indian food and on a personal level, to record regional and family recipes and circulate them as much as possible. We just wanted to cook from home, participate in street markets and stay quite low-key. Never in our wildest dreams did we think that our tiny project would morph into a restaurant!
The one policy Krishnan and I have followed from the beginning is to never call our food 'authentic' mainly because where food is concerned, what is authentic to one may not be authentic to another. All that we do is follow the recipe entrusted to us as accurately as possible.
Out of deep respect for our South Indian culinary traditions, Krishnan and I have decided that for as long as Spice Dabba exists, we will use traditional recipes so that each dining experience is unique and we hope to incorporate the best of what Scotland has to offer so that diners experience the best of both worlds!
Contact Info
Address:
15 belmont street
Aberdeen
ab10 1jr
United Kingdom
Aberdeen
ab10 1jr
United Kingdom
Tel:
01224 645200
Website:
http://www.spicedabba.com/
Offering
- Indian
- Cheap Eats
- Entertaining clients
- Buffet
- dine-in
Hours of operation
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| Monday | Open | ||||||
| Tuesday | Open | ||||||
| Wednesday | Open | ||||||
| Thursday | Open | ||||||
| Friday | Open | ||||||
| Saturday | Open | ||||||
| Sunday | Open | ||||||
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