”One of the best new restaurants of the year, Surry Hills Indian Foreign Return, isn't only dishing up lesser-known regional dishes from across the Indian subcontinent, it's also now offering its incredible cocktail menu for takeaway."
- Time Out -
”At Foreign Return, every detail in the restaurant helps build a hyper colourful map of India. The restaurant also wants to revive India's ‘lost' recipes, dishes that are menu rarities."
- Good Food -
”Passage to India: A small Surry Hills terrace is the gateway to a world of Indian flavours"
- Gourmet Traveller -
”introducing Sydney to the beauty and creativity that lies outside of what they may normally associate with Indian food"
- Thrillist -
”In the same way that pad Thai is no longer the sole spokesperson for Thai cuisine in this country, and banh mi has shaken off the burden of representing all things Vietnamese, Gaurang Gahoi is determined to free butter chicken from the pressure to perform."
- Time Out -
”Just as Foreign Return's food menu is far from your typical Aussie-Indian fare, the team have created some far from typical cocktails to take home during lockdown. There are familiar names, sure, but that's just about all that's predictable about their takeaway cocktail fare."
- Time Out -
”Taste Your Way Through Many Facets of Indian Cuisine at Foreign Return, a New Surry Hills Cocktail Bar and Diner"
- Broadsheet -
”Foreign Return named affectionately for expats who leave India and come back home – is nixing the idea that Indian food is all creamy sauces, soft breads, and two-note spice blends, and putting 'lost' recipes back onto leather-bound menus."
- Time Out -
”Experience spice-infused cocktails and innovative dishes at this rule-breaking Indian bar and restaurant."
- Eat Drink Play -
"We want to serve food as you'd have it back in India, unaltered,"
- Good Food -
”In the same way that pad Thai is no longer the sole spokesperson for Thai cuisine and banh mi has shaken off the burden of representing all things Vietnamese, restaurateur Gaurang Gahoi is determined to free butter chicken from the pressure to perform."
- The Frontier Post -
”The Surry Hills location should be enough of an indication that this is not your just down-the-road-local Indian restaurant. If it’s not, then perhaps the decor – from the blue bar with delicate lighting to the mural on the wall indirectly referencing India. This is a soothing space to enjoy Indian food innovation. ."
- Daily Addict -