__________ AVAILABLE SUNDAYS · DARLINGHURST

The Sunday
Specials at Malabar

One day a week our kitchen plates a menu it has waited all week to cook. Typical Kerala dishes, hand pounded spices, ingredients we wouldn’t serve any other way. Available until sold out.

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The Sundays our
regulars come back for.

Ruby Chicken Biryani $34

A Hyderabadi classic with deep South Indian soul.
Layers of marinated chicken and long grain basmati rice adorned with the beautiful subtleties and warm intensity of spices, balanced with richness of caramelised onions,  cashew nuts and raisins.

Upma $7.50

Roasted semolina tossed with curry leaves, mustard seeds, and vegetables, soft and aromatic.

Karam Idli $7.50

Cloud-soft steamed rice and lentil cake, light, and gently fermented.

Sambhar Vada $7.50

Golden lentil doughnut, crisp on the outside, airy and tender inside.

________ WHY SUNDAYS ARE DIFFERENT

A menu the kitchen looks forward to cooking.

The Sunday Special exists because some dishes deserve the time the rest of the week won’t allow. Slow braises. Whole-spice tempering. Slow marination over two days. A guest who can taste the difference will already know this. The rest is detail.

Cooked, not assembled

The biryani is built from scratch. Whole spices toasted to order, ground in-house, balanced by hand.

Spice with restraint

Heat is the easy part. We work for the nuance underneath it; the cardamom, the curry leaf, the smoke of black stone flower.

Available until it isn’t

We cook a finite number of plates. When it is finished, it is finished.

_________ THE ROOM, BRIEFLY

White linen, attentive service, a wine list that does the job.

The food is the reason. The room – and the people who run it – are only there to keep out of its way.

__________ SUNDAYS SELL OUT

A finite number of plates.

Book the one with your name on it.​

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