Three Menus, One Restaurant: How the Full, Halal and Vegan Menus Differ at an Indian Restaurant in Den Haag

Choosing an indiaas restaurant den haag is simple until a group has different needs. Indian Curry Club on Thomsonlaan publishes three menu pages, a full menu, a Halal Menu and a Vegan Menu, and they are not copies of each other. This guide compares what each one lists so you know which to open first.

All details come from the restaurant’s own pages. Where those pages leave a question open, the guide says so, and since menus can change, the live page always wins.

The full menu: where the whole dinner lives

The full menu is the longest of the three pages and the only one that follows a complete meal from start to finish. It opens with two soups, Lentil Soup and Tomato Coriander Soup, then moves through a special menu, vegetarian and non vegetarian starters, curries, rice and biryani, naan, side plates and desserts.

The starters are split in two. The vegetarian side has Tandoori Soya Chaap, Dahi Puri, Tandoori Paneer Tikka, Samosa Chaat, Pani Puri, Samosa and Onion Bhajiya, while the non vegetarian side runs from Lamb Chops and Lamb Seekh Kabab to Chicken Wings and Amritsari Fish Fry.

Seafood sits here too, with dishes such as Tandoori Prawns, marinated in mustard and yogurt and cooked in a charcoal oven, and Goan Prawn Curry. So do the desserts, including Mango Kulfi, Rasmalai and Gulab Jamun.

Because it covers everything, this is the page to open when you are planning the evening rather than checking a single diet.

Halal food at an Indian restaurant in Den Haag: sixteen dishes on one page

The Halal Menu page lists 16 dishes, all chicken or lamb. Starters are Tandoori Chicken, Chicken Tikka and Chilli Chicken, and the two biryanis, Chicken Biryani and Lamb Biryani, each come with raita. A biryani is the simplest single order on the page, since rice and the main arrive together.

The chicken curries are Butter Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, Home Style Chicken Curry, Chicken Madras, Chicken Saag Wala, Chicken Vindaloo and Kadhai Chicken. On the lamb side are Lamb Madras, Kadhai Lamb, Lamb Vindaloo and Lamb Rogan Josh, the Kashmiri curry made with yogurt, fennel and Kashmiri red chillies.

The full menu also lists seafood and other non vegetarian dishes that are not on the Halal Menu page. The site shows a Halal Certified badge, and the Halal Menu page lists the dishes above. If you have specific requirements, ask the restaurant how this applies across the rest of the menu.

Vegan and vegetarian choices: what the Vegan Menu covers and what it leaves to the full menu

The Vegan Menu is short and focused. It lists snacks such as Samosa, Onion Bhajiya and Pani Puri, and mains including Channa Masala, Mix Veg, Aloo Gobhi Adraki and Bhindi Do Pyaza.

The descriptions name their ingredients, which helps. Pani Puri is filled with potato, chickpeas and tamarind with tangy mint water, and Channa Masala is a chickpea curry cooked with cumin and dry ginger.

Anyone searching for an indian vegetarian restaurant should know that this page is only part of the vegetarian choice. The full menu adds dairy based vegetarian dishes such as Paneer Tikka Masala, Butter Paneer, Dal Makhani and Saag Paneer, plus a Veg Biryani.

Rice, naan and desserts are not on the vegan page, so the full menu is where those live. Several naan descriptions there mention butter or cheese, so a vegan guest should ask which breads and desserts suit a plant-based diet instead of assuming.

Planning a table with mixed diets

Start with the person whose needs are narrowest, then fill in around them. A halal eater begins on the Halal Menu, a vegan guest on the Vegan Menu, and anyone who wants seafood, bread or dessert on the full menu. Everyone else can roam.

Take a group of five with one vegan guest, one halal guest and three flexible eaters. Samosa and Onion Bhajiya work as shared starters because they sit on both the vegan and vegetarian starter lists. The halal guest can then pick a dish such as Chicken Tikka Masala from the Halal Menu, and the vegan guest can take Channa Masala.

A mixed table can book once and read all three pages in advance. Choose mains per person and share the starters.

It also helps to open the three pages side by side before anyone decides. Seeing the Halal Menu next to the full menu makes it obvious which dishes sit on one page only, and the vegan page shows quickly what a plant-based guest can order without extra questions.

One more check before you book

The full menu page says it includes gluten free dishes but does not label them one by one. The restaurant’s site also asks guests to mention allergies or dietary needs when they order or reserve.

So put it in the booking itself: who eats halal, who is vegan, and whether anyone needs gluten free food. The restaurant can then answer before you arrive.