Fitzrovia, Vegetarian Restaurant Guide

It’s “always a pleasure to eat the tasty, well-spiced and reliably classy Keralan food” at this “very good value” veteran in a basement near the Telecom Tower. There’s “friendly service in the compact dining area”, although the interior is not going to win design awards any time soon. Top Menu Tips – “love the fritters!”; dosas here are a perennial favourite too.

“If you like dosas, idlis and uttapams”, these “cheap and cheerful” but “spotless and well-run” canteens in the West End (plus Hammersmith and Harrow) are “an excellent choice for very good South Indian vegetarian food” – they’re also “a top option to take a crowd because they’re not fazed by large tables”, and “even carnivores don’t complain” when they try the “tasty food”.

This “good-value” contemporary Indian in Bloomsbury offers “reliable” cooking from Tamil Nadu on India’s southern tip. Like its neighbour Sagar, it offers a selection of dosas, but here the menu isn’t vegetarian with many options ‘From our butchers’ or ‘From our Fishermen‘s nets’ and chicken ‘From our Farm’. (If you’re up Leicester way, they also have a branch not far from the De Montfort Hall).

An “amazing lunchtime buffet” and a good choice of “reliable vegetarian dishes” pull in a regular crowd at this “stalwart” of the ‘Little India’ enclave behind Euston station.

“It’s virtually impossible to spend more than £15 a head” at this “old-school Indian restaurant serving very high-quality vegetarian snacks”. Established in 1971 and “still going strong”, it’s a star of the Drummond Street enclave by Euston station known as ‘Little India’, and has shown major staying power over the decades (including “hanging on through HS2 works and the station redevelopment”). The dated interior is showing its age, but anyone interested in what the 1970s really looked like should pay it a visit.