We have been going to Shish Mahal, our local Indian restaurant, for about eight years now, and it…read moretakes alot of beating. What's not to like?!! The food is consistantly excellent, very reasonable prices and really friendly staff. And after the recent revamp, it looks good too! Some of our favourite dishes are Garlic King Prawns, Chicken Shashlik, Lamb Madras and Peshwari Nan. Only downside is the pre-prepared sweet menu but by the time I reach there I only have room for some lychees anyway. Drop in next time you are in the area, you wont regret it

We went to Shish Mahal as a group of six on a Saturday night. It was a very good experience…read more Everything we ordered was delicious and the staff were friendly. This curry house is better than most.

The 1970's style interior adds to the 'traditional' feel of this curry house. I recently ate there…read morewith a group of neighbours and we all agreed that the range and standard of the dishes was really quite good. Good service and cold beer too. It's hardly upmarket but to my taste superior dining experience to the 'modern' curry houses with their sparse interiors and laminate floors.

Tasty, cheap and good service. Best thing in the menu is the aubergine side dish…read more For some reason the food tastes significantly better when dining in than as a take away.

Very busy restaurant, make sure to make a reservation. We ate here around 5:30 PM and it was fully…read morepacked. We were pretty full from eating all day as tourists so we just wanted to try the food. Okra fries were nice, chili chicken was good but I don't handle spices well to judge. Chefs special prawn Pathia was very good.

Was recommended to come here by a lot of people!…read more Food: The food was so warm and tasted to fresh. The chicken ruby tasted so good with the rice and garlic nan! I loved the lentils with the nan! The sauces they gave were very lovely paired with everything. Service: Our waitress was very sweet and knowledgeable with the menu. We told her it is our first time and she broke down the menu items for us! Very sweet of her to do so. Overall: I would recommend this place to other people and possibly come back in the future when I revisit London! Food was pretty high quality and so were the people working there. The restaurant is pretty big and spacious too!

Great little spot in Stratford! Himalaya is cozy and totally worth a visit. The food was delicious…read moreand came out fresh and flavorful. What really made the experience stand out was the friendly and attentive service! They were so welcoming. Dalia was especially awesome and took great care of us. Comfortable atmosphere, great food, and wonderful staff. Thank you for a wonderful experience!

Excellent Indian food hidden in Stratford in this restaurant that has been around for decades!…read more Excellent service, excellent food, excellent ambiance. Classics like butter chicken, tandoori chicken (on the bone) and naan were some of the best I've ever had. And the prices are good too (for London.) My only advice is to order extra rice unless you're on a low carb diet. The servings of rice are a little smaller than I'm used to in the US. Seek out this place if you love Indian food.

Not just "hyped", dishoom deserves the recognition!…read more SERVICE Amazing service, easy to make reservations online, and easy to check in and get seated once your entire party has arrived. INSIDE Spacious, clean, and plenty of seating both upstairs and down. MENU For larger parties, they recommend their prefix menu which includes a various sampling of lots of delicious items. FOOD 10/10 I haven't eaten Indian food much, but was thoroughly impressed. From my mango lassi which was perfectly sweetened and tart to buttered buns, fried okra, black Dahl, garlic naan, and lamb skewers, everything was delicious. I esp loved the lamb skewers! We ordered a side of garlic naan with cheese which is basically a quesadilla and it was super cheesy and delicious as well. OVERALL Would def recommend Dishoom when visiting London. It'll definitely be a hit in your books!

There isn't much I can add about Dishoom that hasn't already been said. As a huge fan of Indian…read morefood, I can honestly say I haven't had better. The food was exceptional -- aroma, flavors, spice levels, portions; everything was perfect. While visiting London, a local friend invited me to Dishoom, knowing how much I love Indian cuisine. We arrived on a Sunday afternoon around 5PM, and the place was already packed. They don't take reservations for dinner unless you're a large group, but trust me, the wait is worth it. They have a fantastic bar where you can grab drinks while you wait for a table (they give you buzzers). I tried the Negroni and another tequila-based cocktail (sadly I can't remember the name), and both were phenomenal. Shared plates are definitely the way to go at Dishoom. We ordered the gunpowder potatoes (incredible), an appetizer with potatoes and pineapple (not my favorite; the pineapple threw me off), monkfish curry (amazing), and chicken curry. It was a lot of food for just two of us, but I couldn't stop eating. I seriously wanted to bottle up that sauce! The service was surprisingly impeccable, especially considering how busy they were. We ended up spending about £110 for an incredible dinner, and we nearly couldn't finish everything. Lastly, the ambiance! Inspired by Iranian cafes in India, the atmosphere at Dishoom is eclectic. I loved the dim lighting, unique decor, and the lively pace of the restaurant. Just go!

I will never eat food from this place again! It was awful, absolutely atrocious. The PARATHAS were…read moredisgusting and OILY and looked like fried tissues. The CHICKEN KORMA was insipid, the sauce was sugary, watery and had NO body. The chicken was PALE. The 'SAMOSAS' looked like franken-cornish pasties and the onion barjees were DRY. IT WAS A BIG, FAT LET DOWN.

This is the best Indian food I've eaten in London. They serve food in a Tiffin, where you select 4…read moredishes to compose your plate and 3 of the dishes are served in little silver bowls. The egg curry and slow roasted lamb curry bowls are incredible. Full of flavor and unique and just insanely good. The aubergine and broad bean curry is also fresh and yummy, as is the saag paneer. The peshwari naan has delicious coconut and is the perfect side dish for the tiffin dishes. The restaurant is run by the nicest family. The father takes the orders, the son introduces you to the menu and is super charming, and the mom does all of the amazing cooking. I am definitely going to make this my regular spot for Indian. I can't imagine going anywhere else now. Better than any of the high street Indian chains!

Was house hunting in Walthamstow when I came across this one. A great place for non-vegetarian…read morefellows looking for some Spicy Indian food in Walthamstow. Vegetarian dishes were only average. Sambhar was terrible. The quantity of Kuthu Porotta they serve is humungous. I just couldn't imagine a normal person being able to finish it. They serve it with eggs, chicken or lamb. I tried the chicken version. It was pretty good. Curries are okay. Not the best. Price is generally on the moderate side. Drinkers might love this place though. Spicy food and drinks go very well together.

Priya bills itself as a modern take on south Indian and Sri Lankan resturant. It's very clean and…read moremodern looking restaurant - all white walls and white tiled floor with a totally glass shop frontage. Too clinical and soul-less in practice, I think. I went on a Friday evening to get a takeway. It took 20 minutes to take my order, then over an hour to actually get it, despite being continually told it would be 5-10 minutes. I don't have a problem with any restaurant being busy, but I do have a problem with their dishonesty. If it was going to take a while, they should have let me decide whether it was worth the wait, not string me along. After the wait, the food was below average for me. What was supposed to be a dish with string hoppers (a regional speciality sort of soft ride-noodle cake), turned out to have had the string hoppers finely chopped into the main dish a la a Biryani. As someone who has spent months in Sri Lanka, this was completely new. It wasn't described as such on the menu either. As dish it didn't work. Overall it was underspiced and basically pretty dull. A friend who I bumped into there on that evening had much more successful masala Dhosas though, hence the extra star in my review.

Pakistani (?) take away of the highest standard, take-away only. The food is cooked on the…read morepremises, it's excellent and amazingly cheap. My favourites are the onion bahjis, vegetable samosas and naan rolls. They do extremely good curries too.

Tiny hole-in-the-wall nan bakery on Walthamstow's High Street (home of the market also). Basically…read morea bloke just slaps the dough around, puts it straight onto the oven and makes your nans fresh right in front of you to order (well, you and the queue of other nan-fiends). 3 garlic nans for a quid, or 4 plain nans, or 2 sesame ones. Flavour's amazing and so fresh. They're so amazing, virtually none make it home, I just scoff away as I walk up the market (and I only live about five minutes walk away). (And, of course, you can also call them "naans" if you want, but that's not what the shop says.)

I love this place and have to come whenever I'm in the area. Everything they do is so tasty and…read moreinsanely cheap. Lahmacun for £1.30 and 3 garlic naan a for £1. It's crazy. There's no need to go to the supermarket if your cooking yourself a curry later on. Just make sure you ask for them to do it fresh as sometimes they try and give you the pre-cooked ones that are sat at the front which do get cold. (Visit - 17/04/2015 Lunch)