Dining at Matsya, Mayfair: There’s a pocket of Mayfair prime estate to the north of Green Park tube station which seems to have become a haven for contemporary Indian restaurants. Benares, Gymkhana and Jamavar are all places I’ve enjoyed and would happily recommend (as would the Michelin guide, all three are Michelin starred). Along with Tamarind […]
Little Kolkata Supper Club – Monk and Fish
A special kind of Supper Club – Little Kolkata: Some nights out are good and some are really, really good. You know those evenings when the food is excellent, the company fun, you drink great cocktails, laugh a lot and go to bed happy? Usually, these nights are spent with old friends in your local […]
Vijays Bar & Lounge, Fitzrovia
An exclusive drinking den in the heart of Fitzrovia – Vijay’s at Lokhandwala: Vijay’s Bar & Lounge, tucked away up a small staircase on London’s Charlotte Street, above Indian restaurant Lokhandwala, was inspired by an infamous Mumbai gangster Vijay. A real hidden gem, the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of London’s busy streets, […]
Cinnamon Kitchen comes to Battersea
Cinnamon Kitchen goes South of the River: I’m a huge fan of Vivek Singh, I love his restaurants, and I love his cookbooks which enable me to try to reproduce his creative and innovative dishes at home. I also love Battersea, having lived there for 5 years in my late 20s/early 30s. So when the […]
Hankies – Marble Arch
Indian Restaurant Marble Arch, London at Hankies, the Montcalm Hotel I was a bit confused by the invitation to dine at Hankies Marble Arch, the newest site opened by renowned chef and Hankies founder Anirudh Arora. To me, a hankie is something that you keep in your pocket to blow your nose on, to my partner, […]
Celebrate Holi Festival at Cinnamon Kitchen
Holi Holi Holi……the Indian festival of colour Having just returned from a trip to India and arriving back to London in the big freeze has been a bit of a shock to the system. So I was delighted to be invited to spend an evening in Vikek Singh’s fabulous contemporary Indian restaurant Cinnamon Kitchen set […]
Baluchi at the LaLiT – The Best Indian Restaurant London Bridge
London Bridge Indian Restaurant – Baluchi at the LaLit: I can never resist an invitation to go for a curry; I think that I’m completely hooked on the art of spicing which the best places manage to achieve and that I strive to replicate in my own home. When you add an old school that’s […]
City Spice – Review
East End Curries for West End Boys Over the last few years, I’ve reviewed and visited a number of the new wave of Indian restaurants. The food is often lighter and more fusion based than traditional curry houses. But sometimes you yearn for an old-school curry so I was delighted to be asked to review […]
Namaaste Kitchen – A Hidden Gem in Camden
Namaaste Kitchen Review: I forget sometimes how long I have been running London-Unattached. I first reviewed the Indian restaurant Namaaste Kitchen in 2013 and went back some six months later. It’s in North London though, in between Camden and Primrose Hill and so while I love the food, it’s not somewhere I walk past regularly. A […]
Indian Essence – a gem in Pett’s Wood
Atul Kochhar’s Indian Essence: Whilst it’s always lovely to be invited to restaurants in central London, it’s also nice to have the opportunity to explore what’s happening in local neighbourhoods. It used to be the case that many of the local Indian restaurants (which were more often than not, actually Bangladeshi) served up variations on […]