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London's best Indian restaurants
From restaurants serving classic Moghul food to modern interpretations of pan-Indian cuisine
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Moti Mahal
Since 2005, chef Anirudh Arora's elegant restaurant has flown the Tiranga for top-class Indian food. Initial impressions are of innocuous, classic fine dining - cream banquettes, heavy napery, a legion of slick s...
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Chakra
Budget-price Indian street food canteens are currently in vogue, but this recently opened Notting Hill restaurant bucks the trend with a fine dining menu priced at the sharp end. Chakra is furnished in shades o...
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Cinnamon Kitchen
There's something almost karmic about the location of this new sibling to the Cinnamon Club, occupying as it does a former warehouse of the East India Company. And it occupies it stylishly, with walls in soft pew...
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Painted Heron
A Cheyne Walk treasure, this discreet restaurant has deservedly built up a fan club of Chelsea residents, who come here for the adventurous menu inspired by classic culinary tradition. Dishes are well-thought thr...
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Cinnamon Club
Housed in a former Victorian library, Cinnamon Club has become a magnet for power-brokers and politicians. Expect a colonial-style atmosphere, with high ceilings, a gallery of books and leather seating adding to ...
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Chutney Mary
With a formula that has been working for over 20 years, Chutney Mary continues to produce upmarket Indian food for a clientele of equally upmarket Chelsea diners. Descending to the lower-ground level, you enter t...
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Madhu's
Gleaming glass panels, glossy black tiles and crisp table linen set the scene for upmarket dining at Southall's smartest restaurant. The dishes are mainly North Indian, but menu specialities such as nyama choma (...
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Dishoom
Dishoom ticks many design characteristics of the Victorian Irani cafés of Bombay, but occupies a new, purpose-built development near Covent Garden, so lacks any ageing charm. The feel is clever and corporate rat...
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Tayyabs
Every year we feature this Punjabi grill, and every year it seems to be bigger and busier - as of 2012, the cellar and first floor of the former pub have been renovated and pressed into service to accommodate the...
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Mango & Silk
From the moment you step into this little gem of a suburban 'Indian', you know you've found something special. Owner Radhika Verma greets guests on arrival and continues to be unobtrusively solicitous throughout....
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Five Hot Chillies
A no-fuss Punjabi corner café, Five Hot Chillies puts all its efforts into the food. Even during a sparsely attended Sunday lunch, the fish tikka arrived from the open stainless-steel kitchen freshly seared, and...
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Rasa
This original branch of the Rasa chain may not have quite the buzz it opened with in 1997 - wowing critics and locals alike with the vegetarian home cooking of the Keralan Nair caste - but the food remains excell...
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Dosa n Chutny
Rarely have we seen such a perfect dosai: crisp on the outside, moist and rice-fragrant on the inside, a perfect oval bent over in the shape of a curling leaf. The accompanying sambar (spicy lentil dip) is rich a...
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Indian YMCA
Its plastic tables and cheerlessly upholstered chairs may sit somewhere between an office canteen and a cheap hotel lobby, but the cafeteria of this longstanding home for Indian students retains a communal atmosp...
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Amaya
There's no doubt that Amaya has style. It's a seductively romantic venue, the shiny black granite floor, rosewood furnishings and muted lighting lending an upmarket vibe to proceedings, enhanced by views of chefs...
Comments
Needoo Grill just around the corner corner from Tayyabs is equally good and cheap but far less busy! The food is almost identical due to the old head chef of Tayyabs moving to Needoo. THE best in London
The best thing about visiting Brick Lane is that you get a variety of choice, there is only about 30 plus Indian restaurants. I usually visit Papadoms a venue that has been used by our company on several occasions.
Some good indian restaurants in the list but for sheer quality and flavour of foods at reasonable price I would say some Brick Lane restaurants are the best. If you are going for good food and dont mind decorations I would say visit two of my favourites in London Sheba Restaurant in Brick Lane or Bengal Village and try some awesome dishes,
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