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Story behind Swadish, an authentic Indian that bases dishes around Scottish produce in Glasgow’s Merchant City
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Swadish is a participant in Taste the Place, encouraging Glaswegians and visitors to learn more about cuisine and culture.
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I'm Chef Ajakumar. I'm the owner of Swadish by Ajakumar. We're based in
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Glasgow's Merchant City. It's a modern Indian dining. I like to combine local
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Scottish produce with my roots, growing up in India with Indian spicing and so
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yeah, Swadish is about experimenting different concepts and we take
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pride in combining the local fish, lamb, beef with the traditional Indian
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spicing. Well, I'm born a foodie and growing up in India, learning from my dad
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and then teachers and ending up in culinary college, I was always intrigued
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by, you know, the variety of food around us. I think I didn't plan coming to Scotland
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but it just happened. I was traveling. I went to Singapore, I went to Malaysia, Thailand
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for a while and then Dubai for a while and then got an opportunity to come to
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Scotland to work as a chef and which I didn't miss because it was a great
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opportunity in my understanding and now having a restaurant in Glasgow it was
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again by chance. My first restaurant was in Edinburgh. It was more like a wedding
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venue but Swadish is a different concept and I always wanted to do something
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different. Scotland has so many good things to offer especially the seafood and
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meats. It has lovely curry houses and I just didn't want to be one of them. I just
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wanted to have my twist. Scotland's got the best of the best and I worked in
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different kitchens. I've worked with Italians, I worked in Spanish restaurants,
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British pubs and restaurants, Indian kitchens, Pakistani, Spanish dishes and I
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think Scala has won the best larder. Even the fish, the chicken, the lamb, you name it
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even the veggies that we grow here. They're not very many but I think what we
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grow here is the best of the best and it pairs really well with the different
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cuisines and us as an Indian restaurant. The seafood especially we
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predominantly focussed on the seafood. Fish from up north where the Scottish water
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meets the North Atlantic water. It just gives such a delicate sweet flavour to
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seafood. It's best of the best. Linguistines, lobster, monkfish, halibut, I think
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they're top-notch. Fish, lamb, you know, we get it from Isle of Mull and the
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Baddunshar so grass-fed lamb, we can't beat it. Scots lamb is one of the best type of
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lamb in my opinion. Likewise the beef, the gotch beef, you can't beat it for its, you
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know, white marbling and grassiness and the sweet, earthy flavour. We go foraging
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when it's possible with our suppliers. I take my girls, my daughters and they're
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tiny, five and seven, so we go together as a family. All these places offer such a
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unique produce. Most of the restaurants in Glasgow, the good restaurants, the
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top-quality restaurants are slightly expensive and that's only and only because
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they source the top-quality produce, going after the best produce and
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showcasing the Scottish produce on our menus but still combining with our roots
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