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Eight great Indian restaurants
From the 7-13 October it’s National Curry Week, here’s our pick of eight great Indian restaurants throughout the UK
From the 7-13 October it’s National Curry Week, here’s our pick of eight great Indian restaurants throughout the UK
Without leaving these shores, we have an entire subcontinent of flavours to savour – and that’s why regional Indian food is worth celebrating
Indian food in Britain is no longer low-cost, one-flavour-fits-all, post-pub curry fare. Today, British Indian restaurants reflect an exciting, nuanced cuisine, inflected with the scope of flavours of the sub-continent, deserving of the same respect as the finest classical cookery. Here are 29 of our favourite spots across Britain, from budget-friendly cafés to decadent fine-dining restaurants.
The Elizabeth line has broadened Londoners’ horizons. We might celebrate a rare success story: Liverpool Street to Paddington in just ten minutes is an example of its finesse. Transport for London said it will ‘transform’ travel across the capital, bringing in an estimated £42bn to the UK economy. Let us hope independent restaurants benefit. It is in the rail network’s connection of west to east that we might find worthy recipients of this simplified navigation of the capital. To visit Southall, for example, famous for its Indian restaurants, is easier than ever. Here, the food writer Sejal Sukhadwala picks out top places to dine along the line.
Camellia Panjabi has always been an agent of change. Along with her sister and brother-in-law, she is responsible for igniting a shift in the perception of Indian food in the UK from low-cost, one-flavour-fits-all, post-pub curry to an exciting, nuanced cuisine, inflected with the scope of flavours of the sub-continent, and deserving of the same respect as the finest classical cookery. This year’s Lifetime Achievement recipient in CODE Hospitality’s annual Women of the Year Awards, tells Tessa Allingham about a drive to innovate that has defined a game-changing career.