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The Week UK: London’s best Indian fine-dining restaurants

ForestHull

3 Dec '21

The Week have a quick top 5 of Indian fine-dining restaurants, which among the Mayfair and Chelsea usual haunts, features local stand-out Babur - well done to them!

Benares (Mayfair)
Bombay Bustle (Mayfair)
Babur (Honor Oak Park)
Flora Indica (Earl’s Court)
Kahani (Chelsea)

Babur (Honor Oak Park)

Away from the restaurant-rich streets of central London, Babur, in Honor Oak Park, is well worth the ten-minute train journey from London Bridge. There’s no missing this southeastern stalwart: it has a life-sized sculpted tiger shimmying down the side of the building. Inside, the food is an alluring mix of regulars (try the organic chicken chop, from Suffolk via Kolkata, steeped in mace and green cardamom and served with a kalonji-seed paratha), and a monthly selection of specials, dedicated to a specific regional cuisine. The restaurant is evangelical about pairing wine with Indian food - each dish has a recommendation printed on the menu. A five-course tasting menu is £44.75, or £74.50 with matching wines.

Don’t miss: venison hunter curry, slow cooked with sweet potato, dark spices and tamarind (£19.25)

Michael

3 Dec '21

Well done to Mayfair, at least now they can boast one thing that makes it better than Honor Oak.

However, £2000 to stay in a hotel seems a bit much, especially when you haven’t passed Go for a round.

oakr

3 Dec '21

Seems if you want a successful restaurant in this category, make sure it’s name starts with B. By the time the judges get to the ones starting with C and over they can no longer eat.

Well done Babur, another in a long line of accolades.