Desi Tandoori

Desi Tandoori sits on Aberlady Crescent in the heart of Whitfield, the post-war housing scheme on the north-eastern flank of Dundee that was rebuilt in the 1990s after the failed deck-access experiment of the original 1960s scheme. "Desi" — the South Asian shorthand for native, home-style — flags the kitchen positioning as a Pakistani-and-Indian shop running the kind of karahi-and-tandoori menu that has moved into the east-Dundee market through Albert Street, Forfar Road and the Whitfield-Fintry corridor. The shop is one of the smaller operators in the Whitfield cluster and trades almost entirely on local custom from the surrounding scheme — the Aberlady, Lothian and Whitfield Drive housing — alongside delivery work into Mid Craigie, Fintry and the Drumgeith roundabout area. The Whitfield curry market is unusually crowded for a scheme this size, with Summer Palace on Huntly Square and the Fintry Indian cluster at Cheviot Crescent both within a short delivery hop. The shop runs evenings only and works the halal-meat trade through standard Pakistani specials.