Read Reviews About South Kensington Restaurants

Indian Restaurants in South Kensington

1. Pravaas Indian restaurant in Kensington and Chelsea 3 Glendower Place - SW7

“A delightful find” that’s “a brilliant option close to the museums and the Royal Albert Hall”. “Not your standard curry house cooking by any means”, Shilpa Dandekar’s cuisine wins nothing but applause at this year-old modern Indian restaurant in South Kensington, in particular for “beautifully executed food that’s aromatic and full of flavour… and prettily presented too!”.

Price*

£46

££

Food

Very Good

Service

Very Good

Ambience

Average

2. Light of India Indian restaurant in Kensington and Chelsea 67/69 Gloucester Road - SW7

2022 Review: Worth knowing about near Gloucester Road tube – this large hotel dining room has been serving Indian cuisine since 1984. Too few reports for a rating, but promising feedback and worth bearing in mind if you are in the vicinity.

3. Bombay Brasserie Indian restaurant in South Kensington Courtfield Road - SW7

This “great (if pricey) institution” near Gloucester Road tube station is often forgotten, but still delights its small fan club with “proper Indian food – each dish has a different and very authentic flavour”. The excellence is no surprise given its ownership by the luxury Taj Hotels group. What would it take to regain its huge 1980s renown? – perhaps there are just too many quality Indians nowadays.

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£100

£££££

Food

Very Good

Service

Very Good

Ambience

Good

4. Noor Jahan Indian restaurant in Earl's Court 2a Bina Gardens - SW5

A South Ken fixture for more than 60 years, this curry house classic is a treasured neighbourhood asset to its local regulars (“it’s the only Indian we ever go to…”). Critics feel its performance is “very unexceptional”, but that somewhat misses the point that it is the venue’s very reassuring predictability and familiarity that’s so central to its appeal, not to mention its “reasonable prices” (“at some posher Indians in West London, the prices are insane”).

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£56

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Food

Good

Service

Very Good

Ambience

Good

5. Thali Indian restaurant in Earl's Court 166 Old Brompton Rd - SW5

2024 Review: With its “good North Indian cooking” from family recipes, this well-established venue with Bollywood posters lining the walls is these days a rival to veteran Noor Jahan for bragging rights on Earl’s Court’s “curry corner”.

6. Flora Indica Indian restaurant in South Kensington 242 Old Brompton Road - SW5

2024 Review: “A quirky steampunk theme combined with an emphasis on cocktails and craft beers accompanies very sound modern Indian cooking” at this Earl’s Court venture, whose name pays tribute to the 19th-century Scottish botanists who classified the subcontinent’s plants. “After a few false starts on the site, this restaurant has found its forte under the same ownership as its predecessor Mr Wing (RIP)”.