When Prince and the Peacock opened in summer 2024, the hype was loud and the prices were low. Nearly two years on, the quality remains, even if more luxurious dishes have entered the menu and prices have edged up. Recent additions like crab claw porichettu and bhapa chingri prawns now clear $400 but are worth it for the most part. Indeed, much of the menu delivers value that outstrips most fine-dining Indian restaurants in town. The recent winter menu took diners on a journey from the mountains of Sikkim down to the Patiala court in Delhi, then further south to Kerala’s spice-inflected coast. It felt fitting that such a sweeping menu of Indian cuisine was served in a colonial-era building now reclaimed for the right side of history.

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