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Gymkhana is morally disgusting – and fortunately the food’s disgusting too

It’s revolting in the same way that eating in homage to apartheid South Africa or to commemorate the genocide of native Americans is revolting

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

18 October 2014

9:00 AM

Gymkhana is a fashionable Indian restaurant in Albemarle Street. It was, according to its natty website, ‘inspired by Colonial Indian gymkhana clubs, set up by the British Raj, where members of high society came to socialise, dine, drink and play sport’. This is revolting, in the same way that eating in homage to apartheid South Africa or to commemorate the genocide of native Americans is revolting.

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Gymkhana, 42 Albemarle Street, London W1S 4JH; tel: 020 3011 5900.


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