A curry house on Sparks Road
Forty-one years in Overport. Sit down at the long table, or take it away in a half loaf from the roti counter.
Book a tableMasala ground on site
Chilli, coriander and cumin roasted and ground in the back room every Wednesday. Nothing here comes out of a packet.
Curries on from 11h00
Mutton and beans go on at six in the morning. When a pot is finished it is finished, and on a Friday it usually is by two.
Long tables seat twelve
Two of them down the middle of the room, for birthdays, prayer lunches and anyone who arrives with a crowd.
Takeaways from the counter
Phone the order through on 031 208 4471 and it will be wrapped and waiting at the roti counter.
The card
Prices in rand. The board changes on Fridays.
Bone-in mutton cooked down from six in the morning, with rice, dhal and sambals.
Deboned thigh in a dry masala, rolled into a roti straight off the tawa.
A quarter loaf hollowed out and filled from the same pot, virgin on the side.
The one people phone about. Two rotis worth of filling rolled into one.
Slow beans with potato and curry leaf. The kitchen eats this on a Monday.
Two eggs, cheddar and green chilli, on the counter in four minutes.
Queen prawns, shell on, in a thin tomato masala. The bibs are on the table for a reason.
Potato, peas and carrot, no ghee, and it is not an afterthought.
Regulars
My mother has been particular about mutton curry since 1974 and she will not eat it anywhere else.
A quarter mutton bunny every second Friday for six years. It has never once come out watery.
Eleven of us for my father's birthday on a Saturday night, and nobody rushed us out.
I came in for the prawns and now I order the sugar beans, which I did not see coming.
Forty-one years on Sparks Road
My grandmother opened Tawa in 1985 with two pots and a tawa she carried down from Verulam. We have added a room, a counter and a second stove since, and changed almost nothing else. The masala is still ground here on a Wednesday.
Book a table
Walk-ins are welcome, but Friday fills up by twelve. 214 Sparks Road, Overport · 031 208 4471