Restaurant Mumtaz: tandoor cooking from Matongé in a setting of emerald and gold

An Indian and Pakistani table in the heart of Matongé

Restaurant Mumtaz is in Matongé, in Ixelles. Its cooking looks to both India and Pakistan, with a halal menu that gives pride of place to the tandoor, the clay oven where marinated grills and breads are cooked.

The menu lists more than one hundred dishes, arranged in clear sections: suggestions, starters, tandoori grill, mixed grill platters, chicken, lamb, fish and seafood dishes, vegetarian dishes, sides and drinks. It features the great classics, from chicken tikka masala to butter chicken, palak paneer with its spinach and cubes of Indian cheese, seekh kebabs, biryanis with chicken, lamb, vegetables or scampi, and naan baked in the tandoor.

The scenes on the website set the tone: deep green walls streaked with gold lines, chairs upholstered in turquoise damask, pink tablecloths, red arches and teal velvet banquettes.

A home page that moves like a film

On a computer, the home page is a film that moves forward as you scroll. It opens on the dining room and the plate of grills, with the tagline “Inde et Pakistan à Ixelles” and a question, “Par quoi commencez-vous ?”. The text invites you to share the tandoori mixed grill with others: pick a piece, add a little sauce, pass the plate.

With every gesture, the scene changes. A screen opens onto the curries under the title “Vous saucerez ?”, which recommends the butter chicken for its mildness and the chicken tikka masala for the aroma of grilled chicken. Next comes a table loaded with dishes, where the light breaks up into a rainbow.

The story continues in framed cards on a warm stone background. “La cuisson”, subtitled “Direction le tandoor”, presents the chicken marinated in yogurt and cooked in the clay oven; “Le grill” gathers the whole tandoor on one plate, from seekh kebabs to chicken tandoori.

On a smartphone, the same setting in portrait

On a smartphone, two painted buttons, Réserver and Commander, stay at the top of the screen. The logo, the tagline and the opening question are centered above the plate of grills, then the story continues in stacked cards, like the one about the grill and its seekh kebabs.

On the ordering page, each easel takes the full width, the sections scroll in a horizontal strip, and the basket bar, a blue scroll ringed with brass that shows the total, stays at the bottom of the screen while the menu is read. The booking form switches to a single column, from the full name to the Réserver button.