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Best curry house in London - thoughts please. Can’t get enough of the stuff…took myself to a great keralan curry house the other day for lunch (not much on at work) called Rasa W1 - lovely.
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A few of us had a drunken afternoon over xmas at Borough and ended up in a curry house in Brick Lane.Top nosh and at a price that you wont pull faces at:) Muhib Indian RestaurantTel: 020 7247 7122
73, Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Banana Leaf, St James Road in Croydon. Bit of a schleep but definitely worth it.
Sounds South Indian - marvellous. Next time in Croydon…
Take a trip to Brick Lane!! 
I’m not far from Brick Lane but have heard mixed reports - you have to pic the right place. Any specifics? Love anything curry related on the food front - the full range. Just want a new place I’ve not been to in London.
Yeah the Banana Leaf is South Indian.
Worked in Brick Lane, parking up in Green Dragon Yard for about 6 years and know a lot of the curry houses and Asian Cafes in the area pretty well. I lived on curry and roti for lunch for a lot of the time. Most serve up good food at a reasonable price; the Banana Leaf takes some beating though. 3 Monkeys in Herne Hill is pretty good too, but over priced.
If I’m around Brick Lane, I tend to avoid the plush eateries which have sprung up over the last ten years. Good curries but not great; often trading off the reputation the Bengali Cafe’s built in the 80’s. I look for somewhere with formica tables, where you sitting beside whoever bowls up next to you (mainly Asian), no sign outside and food to die for. Usually limited menu, but cheaper than a portion of fried potato’s.
Smells and sounds of my four months wandering around India, a long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away.
All the Rasa places are great. The original (veggie) one is in Stoke Newington, and there’s one in Charlotte St (pricy - but so is the W1 branch). Malabar Junction (corner of New Oxford St and Tott Ct Rd) is a similar Sth Indian/Sri Lankan place and inside it’s like a palm court. Good dosas.
I’m a Sth London person, so I’d say that if you want cheap and excellent food, you only have to go to Tooting. The road between Tooting Bex and Tooting Broadway is basically curry central (Kastoori is very good - Sth Indian vegetarian), but if you go Sth of Tooting Broadway towards Colliers Wood, then you’re into the more Sth Indian part of the road. Just Sth of T B’dway on opposite side of the road is the excellent and super cheap Jaffna House (Sri Lankan), and then a little further on is the very good Sri Krishna.
I don’t rate Brick Lane at all, but that may be down to my personal experiences. There used to be some good places for kebabs and Lahori style food around Aldgate, but it’s ages since I’ve been over there and I couldn’t give you decent directions.
I’ve never been out to Southall, but there must be good Indian food out there since there’s a huge Indian population. Ditto Wembley/Harrow and surroundings.
I find the Time Out eating guide to be quite good for most ethnic foods.
That’s my local! Nice restaurant and friendly staff but the bad news is that I’ve had food poisoning there three times:sick:
If you’re in the West End I would recommend ‘Shikara’ 65 Great Titchfield Street (opposite Efes). Really nice curry and never overly busy.
The absolute best in London has to be the Lahore Kebab House, Umberston St - just off Commercial Road in the east end. It’s absolutely packed out every day of the week. A group of us go over every coupla months…it’s not one of your posh eateries with pretentious waiters - just straightforward good simple food and around £15-20 a head inc starters, main course and a simple dessert.
If anyone’s up for it, i can get an evening organised so’s we can all meet up & have a curry…
Jashan, 19 Turnpike Lane - North London
Excellent curry house…Wide variety of styles…Used to be my local curry house when I lived north of the river. Miss it (although there are some great houses in Tooting near me).
It’s been ages since I’ve had a curry, must book soon, here are my old time favourites!
The Cinnamon Club, in St James’- Brilliant!
Rasa, Charlotte Street, you’ve been to this one already, also brilliant.
Tandoori Nights-Lordship Lane, East Duwlich-favourite local curry house.
3 Monkeys Herne Hill.
Bon appetit!
With all that choice it sounds like a chance for an LB midweek curry run…
Think you should invite a few of us out to one of those soon :Whistling:
Great idea Mr Darcy, definitely up for this!
Mate I am with you on all fronts. There’s a famous spot in Aldgate where you practically have to pay the doorman to get in, and once you’re in its actually quite ordinary decor, but the menu is a curried meat-eaters nirvana. No faffinf, just plate after plate of mental curry spicy grilled meat dishes! KAPOW! If I can get the name off my mate, I’ll post it, its biker heaven I tell ya, although they looked a bit worired when I turned up in full leather trim :DKashtoori in Tooting Broadway is probably one of the best veg curries I’ve ever eaten. Tooting Broadway in general is fantastic. Brick Lane, has never impressed and I’ve been to quite a few places… most of them pretty average, a couple of them downright sh!te. Too many offering very little alternative from each other, cutting corners on prices and fighting for customers cos they’ve hit over-saturation. It hasn’t done the area ANY favours… Now, if you want real curry without the flock wallpaper Chicken Tikka Masala and 10 poppadums crap, and you don’t mind a schlep, SOUTHALL. Nuff said!
The best currty house i ever went to was a vegetarian one in Bristol.
Oi Twiggy , you aint allowed curry:D
I can eat chicken tikka or vegi curry.
