Hot stuff in Holborn The Georgian back streets of Holborn are home to many hidden gems. Round the corner from the normally vibrant Lambs Conduit Street and the Dickens Museum on Doughty Street is an Indian restaurant that is well worth a detour. Salaam Namaste was our destination, tucked away in a typical Bloomsbury terrace. […]
Celebrate Holi Festival at Cinnamon Kitchen
Holi in the Heart of the City – the Indian festival of colour. It’s Holi in the City time again – Cinnamon Kitchen’s House of HOLI returns from the 2nd to 15th March 2020. It’s the sixth year in a row that this fab event has taken place – I think we’ve been along most […]
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 […]
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 […]
A PURE taste of India
Modern Indian Cooking: flavoursome and refined It is always a happy day when you discover a new restaurant within comfortable walking distance of your home. And when it transpires that its chef is a Michelin-level trained Indian woman, who honed her skills at London’s high-end Indian restaurants, The Bombay Brasserie and its Michelin-starred sister restaurant […]
Chai Thali Indian Street Food Bar & Restaurant
A vibrant taste of India in Camden Town: Chai Thali opened in February 2017. Tucked away in the back streets of Camden Town, a short walk from Mornington Crescent tube station is this excellent, authentic Indian restaurant serving delicious street food. Having recently returned from a trip to Goa I was delighted to be invited […]
Cinnamon Bazaar Review
Cinnamon Bazaar – The Most Fun! I have a soft spot for the Cinnamon group of Indian restaurants So I was delighted when I was invited along to a press event for the latest addition to the family – Cinnamon Bazaar. Much of my enthusiasm comes down to the fact that I’ve loitered for several […]