All the London restaurants in the Indian Good Food Guide 2025

The British Indian Good Food Guide is a yearly list of the 100 best Indian restaurants in the UK.

Though a London institution didn’t top the list this year – that honour went to Raval Indian Brasserie & Bar in Newcastle – the capital still did pretty well for itself, with six restaurants named as ‘London Icons’, and a further 22 restaurants included in the overall Top 100. 

The British Indian Good Food Guide calls itself ‘a celebration of excellence in British-Indian dining’. The independent publication has selected a host of amazing spots across England, Scotland and Wales, assessing them on ‘cooking, consistency, hospitality and the overall dining experience’. 

The ‘London Icons’ for 2025 are ‘restaurants whose sustained excellence has helped shape London as a global Indian dining capital’. They’re all in central London, and each one has held a Michelin star at some point. They are Cinnamon Club and Quilon in Westminster, Gymkhana, Jamavar, and Benares in Mayfair, and last but not least, Veeraswamy, which is Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant and can be found just off Regent’s Street.

The rest of the London restaurants featured in the British Indian Good Food Guide range from very plush, such as Trishna in Marylebone, to more casual neighbourhood joints such as Time Out favourites, the vegetarian Rasa in Stoke Newington, and Babur in Forest Hill, as well as the Covent Garden branch of Dishoom. 

London restaurants in the 2025 British Indian Good Food Guide

The full list of London restaurants in the 2025 Indian Good Food Guide is as follows:

Central London

• Cinnamon Club, Westminster
• Quilon, Westminster
• Gymkhana, Mayfair
• Kanishka, Mayfair
• Benares, Mayfair
• Jamavar, Mayfair
• Amaya, Belgravia
• Tamarind, Mayfair
• Veeraswamy, Mayfair
• Trishna, Marylebone
  

City, Soho & West End

• Dishoom, Covent Garden
• Kricket, Soho
• Hoppers, Soho
• Tandoor Chop House, Covent Garden
• Zaika, Kensington
• Gunpowder, Spitalfields
• Brigadiers, Mansion House
• Café Spice Namasté, Docklands
• Darjeeling Express, Soho
• Bombay Brasserie, Kensington
  

South and west London

• Kutir, Chelsea
• Kahani, Chelsea
• Shiuli, Twickenham
• Heritage, Dulwich
• Babur, Forest Hill
• Chokhi Dhani, Battersea
  

North London

• Rasa, Stoke Newington
• Masalchi, Wembley
  

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