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Cheap Indian restaurants in London
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By Time Out Food & Drink editors
Posted: Thu Nov 6 2008 -
Where to get your curry fix in the capital without a ruby putting you in the red
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Chaat
36 Redchurch St, Shoreditch, E2 7DP
Chaat is a welcoming Bangladeshi café in Shoreditch offering traditional home-style dishes with broad appeal. If you're looking for a simple, inexpensive curry at the top of Brick Lane, Chaat should be top of your list. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £40. Read more
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Mai'da
148-150 Bethnal Green Road, E2 6DG
This unlicensed Indian restaurant offers an extensive menu of North Indian, Pakistani, Parsi and Indo-Chinese dishes. Main courses start at £4.25. Cooking is variable but we found the lamb chops and kachay aam ka murgh tikka (tangy chicken tikka wrapped around a green-mango and coriander filling) excellent. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £30. Read more
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Mango & Silk
199 Upper Richmond Road West, Barnes, SW14 8QT
Sheen is lucky to have a chef of Udit Sarkhel’s standing working locally. We particularly rate the Goan squid balchao (a hot and sour dish) and the crisp, lemony samosas. The Sunday buffet features a different Indian region each week and is an attractive £12.95 per adult, with kids up to 11 £7.95. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £40. Read more
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Masala Zone
25 Parkway, Camden, NW1 7PG
Though it’s tempting to order the grand thali – canapé, papadum and chutney, curry, two veg dishes, dahl, raita, salad, chapati and rice, priced from £9.95 – it is massive and many people will find the regular thali at £7.80-£8.25 ideal. This Camden branch, decked out in vintage advertising posters, has enjoyable views over Parkway. Meal for two with wine and service: around £45. Read more
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Sakonis
129 Ealing Road, Wembley, HA0 4BP
The buffet at this Gujarati vegetarian chain has quite a reputation and you’re guaranteed to be joining a throng of punters at the weekend. There’s a veritable cornucopia of authentic South Indian specialities and snacks with an East African influence laid out, plus pizza and chow mein (popular with the kids, apparently). The dals and okra dishes are particularly good, and snacks such as bhel puri and mixed chat a must for the uninitiated. Buffet prices vary according to the time of day (£4.99 breakfast, £7.99 lunch and £10.99 at dinner). Dinner for two with soft drinks and service: around £35. Read more
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Shilpa
206 King Street, Hammersmith, W6 0RA
Rasam, vadai, avial, thoran, dosi and appam – all the South Indian favourites are served in generous portions at this friendly restaurant. We loved the grilled seabass fillets wrapped in banana leaves and the creamy Keralan lamb stew. Set lunches start at £3.99; takeaway lunchboxes are £2.99 vegetarian or £3.99 with fish, lamb or chicken. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £30. Read more
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Tayyabs
83 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, E1 1JU
This legendary Pakistani eateryis a veritable temple to meat, with many coming in their droves to sample as much of Tayyabs’s specialities as their stomachs will allow. The portions are epic and sharing is encouraged. Meal for two with drinks and service: around £25 Read more
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Dosa n Chutny
68 Tooting High Street, Tooting, SW17 0RN
Most of these meals cost under £3 and while the vegetarian choice is exemplary, the non-veg choices are okay too. Meal for two with soft drinks and service: around £12. Read more
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Lahore Kebab House
2 Umberston Street, Whitechapel, E1 1PY
As noisy and boisterous as a school canteen, this long-established Pakistani caff offers earthy cooking with plenty of smoky grills and hot, buttery breads. Meal for two with service: around £25. BYO: no corkage charge. Read more
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10 comments
Can anyone recommend a good, cheap Indian restaurant in the City/West end, where we can stay the evening and preferably bring our own drink! Not sure if the East London unlicensed restaurants are happy about alcohol?
My regular curry house shikara 65 great titchfield st just off oxford st is not on the list?? how strange. two course meal for £6.95 is unbeliably true. Speciallly around here in the westend.
I also love The Kati Roll Company, on 24 Poland St, near Oxford Circus. Yummy huge kati wraps, great atmosphere in a tiny place (vintage Bollywood posters on walls). Perfect for pre or post pub or theatre eats!
I did not have a good experience at Sakonis. Buffets are generally a no -no for fresh food. The food is left stewing and becoming overdone. This happened in htis case. The dal and okra were both excessively oily.
Rasa in W1 and Stoke Newington rocks my world and does great value lunch boxes from £3.50.
Ask the Indians where good Indian food is...what would others know??Try Chennai Dosa(east ham, wembly and others) for authentic south indian food....at roughly 5 per head the price cant be beat!!
Also - 'Taste of Lewisham' formerly known as Arru Suvai. On Lee High Road SE13 in Lewisham town centre - Masala Dosa with chutneys and sambar for only £3.00.
Tooting High Street is also where it's at...
I agree 100% about masala zone, which are all stunning value for central london- not just in camden, but also covent garden soho etc. the street food is streets ahead (excuse the pun!) of the competition, and the thalis are a great array of flavours.
I'm surprised that "Tooting High Street" doesn't appear anywhere on this list! It's full of cheap Indian restaurants (veggie & non-veggie) and shops that are incredibly good quality.
Drummond St, NW1 (just behind Euston Square station) has a host of great veggie indian restaurants at very low prices. Best value is Chutneys with a delicious range of curries for £5 all you can eat buffet.