DGC Guide to Best Butter Chicken in Delhi

Butter Chicken is perhaps the most popular dish in North India. In absence of any definitive guide to the best Butter Chicken in Delhi, members of Delhi Gourmet Club (DGC) set the onus on themselves to find the restaurant serving best butter chicken in Delhi. Following an old fashioned tasting panel rule of ordering the dish being tasted at end of the meal (rather than only tasting it and nothing else), they visited the 13 most popular outlets in Delhi.

These tasting were normally not intimated to the restaurant in advance (though table may be booked), and each member end up spending over Rs1000 per restaurant on an average. Led by Sourish Bhattacharya and Rocky Mohan, the group ranked Butter Chicken on various parameters which included Presentation, serving temperature, quality of chicken, taste of gravy and quality of accompaniments.
All the members may not be food critics but definitely are food enthusiasts who understand food much better and have refined taste buds. So here are the results of the butter chicken trail where Sumit Goyal (Food & Night Life magazine), and I were invited to the opening night of the butter chicken trail.
The jury has concluded that Invitation restaurant (Ashok Vihar), and Mughal Mahal (Rajendra Place), are joint winners of the Certificate of Excellence. Their butter chicken preparations are classics: the quality of the tomato used is perfect, so the gravy is neither too sour nor too sweet; the butter and cream have been intelligently deployed so as not to smother the masala; and the chicken hasn’t just been dunked into a pre-assembled gravy, but taken out of a tandoor and then added, its smokiness and juices adding character to the gravy.

Here is the complete result which now is the most definitive guide for eating Butter Chicken in Delhi

Invitation (Ashok Vihar): 38.5
Mughal Mahal (Rajendra Place): 37.75
Moti Mahal (GK-I): 35.5
Mini Mughal (GK-II): 32.5
Havemore (Pandara Road): 30
Kwality (Connaught Place): 29
Chicken Inn (Pandara Road): 28.25
Embassy (CP): 28
Minar (GK-I): 25.8
Dhaba (Rajouri Garden): 24.5
Moti Mahal (Malcha Marg): 21.5
Minar (Connaught Place): 20.25
Bhape da Hotel (Connaught Place): 15.5

Jury members included: Atul Mohan, Vikram Bali, Puneeta Chadha Khanna, Vivek Vaid, Rajeev Gulati, Avininder Singh, Siddharth Gupta, Rocky Mohan, Sourish Bhattacharya amongst few others.