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werve the chain cafes that clutter Station Square and turn your feet to Tawa Kitchen, a newly opened Indian eaterie tucked around
IMAGES Tawa offers a change from the Indian food that many of us are used to; colourful, vibrant and light enough for every day
the corner on Station Road. Promising to change perceptions of Indian cuisine with its menu of vibrant, fresh dishes, it’s the brainchild of owner Vilas Patel, who previously ran Cambridge Blue Sandwiches. “I felt there was a market for proper Indian food,” she explains. “Many Indian restaurants that we have in Cambridge are very commercialised – serving up chicken tikka masala and things – but that’s not the kind of food we eat at home. People have got this vision that Indian food is just curry and rice, that it’s very heavy, that it’s not something you can have during the daytime. I wanted to change that vision, so we came up with the idea of Tawa, to say – this is the kind of food we eat at home, it’s healthy, you can have salad with it too, it’s not just meat and stodgy food. We’re bringing a different kind of Indian food: a clean, modern place to eat, but with an Indian twist.” The name comes from the traditional flat plate on which dishes are cooked, with
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