Indian

  • Popular Islington restaurant Delhi Grill is closing

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    Fourteen years after opening their doors in Islington, popular Punjabi restaurant Delhi Grill announced this weekend that it was closing its doors for good.

    Posting on Instagram they said: "With a heavy heart we would like to announce the closing of our little dhaba. It has been an incredible journey and we couldn't have done it without the support from our loyal customers and our team. But it is now time to

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  • Vivek Singh's Cinnamon Bazaar comes to Richmond

    Vivek Singh's Cinnamon Bazaar comes to Richmond

    Updated 15/2/24 with soft launch info

    Vivek Singh (also behind The Cinnamon Club and Cinnamon Kitchen) is bringing Cinnamon Bazaar south of the river as the restaurant gets ready to open in Richmond. 

    As with the first Cinnamon Bazaar in Covent Garden, they say the restaurant is "inspired by bazaars in antiquity and in the modern day." That translates into an all-day menu

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  • Hotel Dalhousie sees the Tandoor Chop House team opening a new tandoor restaurant in Notting Hill

    Hotel Dalhousie sees the Tandoor Chop House team opening a new tandoor restaurant in Notting Hilll

    The people behind Tandoor Chop House and Eggbreak are gearing up to open their next restaurant in Notting Hill with Hotel Dalhousie. 

    Just a restaurant and not a hotel, despite the name (it's named after the town in Northern India), Hotel Dalhouseie has taken over the old Chucs site on Westbourne Grove. There, they'll

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  • Test Driving The Tamil Crown - a great Indian pub follow-up in Islington

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    The Tamil Crown sees the same team behind The Tamil Prince reviving another classic Islington pub with an excellent Indian menu. 

  • Kricket is opening in Canary Wharf

    Kricket is opening in Canary Wharf

    It's been a while since we've seen the last Kricket restaurant opening, over in White City in 2018, but they're now getting ready to open more.

    The first of these will be in Canary Wharf, opening in the North Dock area (close to the Elizabeth Line station there). If you're unfamiliar with Kricket, they describe themselves as "modern Indian restaurants combining British ingredients with the flavours and aromas

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  • Chai Guys Bakehouse will serve up fusion pastries on Portobello Road

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    Updated 9/11/23 with menu details and new opening date

    Over the past few years, Abhilash Jobanputra and Gabriel Unger have built up a loyal following for their Chai Guys stalls in places like Seven Dials Market, Covent Garden and Old Spitalfields Market. But this year marks the time when they switched it up as the pair are opening a bakery cafe in Notting Hill.

    Their bakehouse on Portobello Road,

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  • Colonel Saab's second Indian restaurant is off Trafalgar Square

    Colonel Saab's second Indian restaurant will be off Trafalgar Square 

    They must be doing very well in Holborn, because the team behind Colonel Saab are about to unveil a second restaurant. 

    Opening about two years after they launched the first place, they've taken over the space that was Les Deux Salons near Trafalgar Square. That's been empty for a while, so it'll be good to see something back up and running in there. The

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  • Calcutta-inspired restaurant Paro is coming to Covent Garden’s Lyceum Theatre

    Calcutta-inspired restaurant Paro is coming to Covent Garden’s Lyceum Theatre

    Updated 11/9/23 with opening date and soft launch info

    In excellent news for pre and post-show dining, Covent Garden’s Lyceum Theatre is getting a restaurant that is an ode to all things Calcutta. Called Paro, it will bring a modern spin to the traditional Indian dishes of West Bengal. In a space revamped by Studio G by Giorgia Pellandini, you can choose to dine in

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  • The India Club is closing its doors for good

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    For the past five years one of London's oldest Indian restaurants, The India Club on the Strand, has been fighting a battle against developers. Back in 2018 there were plans by the building's owners to redevelop the space that housed both the restaurant and the Strand Continental Hotel. Now it seems the developers have won and will be replacing the current building with a new luxury hotel. Sigh.

    As a bit of

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  • Masala Zone takes over the Grade II listed Criterion building in Piccadilly Circus

    Masala Zone takes over the Grade II listed Criterion building in Piccadilly Circus

    Masala Zone is ramping things up a notch for its latest opening, taking over the highly impressive Grade II Criterion building on Piccadilly Circus.

    Easily one of London's most impressive dining rooms, the building has changed hands a few times over the past decade or so with Masala Zone promising an entirely new look for the room (where the Grade II restrictions

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  • Kachori comes to Elephant Park with an ex-Gymkhana head chef

    Kachori brings an ex-Gymkhana head chef to Elephant Park

    2/6/23 - updated with the opening date

    Kachori is a new restaurant coming to Elephant Park that looks rather promising. 

    The restaurant takes its influences from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the Punjab. Here's a taste of what to expect, the menu features everything from street food-inspired creations and burgers through to larger sharing

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  • Shankey's serves up Indian food with Irish booze in Hackney

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    We'll be honest we missed the opening of Shankey's last year on Dalston Lane and when it moved to Well Street in Hackney last November. But when a reader brought it to our attention recently we had to admit, it does sound interesting.

    Self-billed as 'Spuds n Spice - Indian food & Irish booze in an old bookies." Clearly they're doing something right as chef and TV personality Andi Oliver bigged them up ...

  • Empire Empire brings Indian food and disco to Notting Hill

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    17/5/23 - updated with more details about the menu

    Notting Hill continues to go from strength to strength and the latest to enter the fray there is the man behind popular Indian restaurant Gunpowder. Empire Empire is on the way. 

    Led by Gunpowder's Harneet Baweja, it's actually planned to be a mix of Indian food and disco music, with a focus on the seventies music scene in

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  • Test Driving Dishoom Canary Wharf - the Bombay cafe serves up another winner

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    Dishoom has brought its Bombay cafe to Canary Wharf. And, before you ask, the House Black Daal and Bacon Naan are definitely on the menu. We head down to take a look.

  • Darjeeling Express

    Asma Khan's Indian restaurant, Mk III