They say good things come to those who wait, and it took 20,000 workers and 22 years to complete the construction of the world-famous Taj Mahal. The reconstruction of the Raj Mahal in Frenchay didn’t quite take as long to complete but four years is a long time for a restaurant to be closed.
When Raj Rahmen opened the Raj Mahal on Frome Valley Road in 1992 there were queues coming out of the door. Twenty years later in 2012 - when the Bristol Post last reviewed the place- the foyer was packed and customers had branded it ‘the best Indian restaurant in the West’.
But after the nightmare experience of a renovation that went wrong followed by the pandemic, over the last few years, they’ve had to almost start from scratch in building up a customer base. However, Raj does recall a recent meeting with a six-foot man who he didn’t recognise but remembers Raj giving him chocolates when he was a child.
