Having already eaten some serious snacks at happy hour, I just needed some good vegetables. There wasn't much open on a Monday night in December in the area, but Sagar looked pretty good. I was seated with my book right behind the counter, almost as if I was hidden away. There was another woman ordering lots of takeaway and some snacks to enjoy while she waited, and a few couples, but the place was quiet. As I looked over the menu, I saw that they also have garlic & onion free options. As I have a colleague who is always looking for such options, and I don't see that much in the states, I wondered if that's something that most places here advertise. I chose the saag paneer with naan and rice pilau. Saag paneer was tasty, a little runnier than I'm accustomed to, but still great flavor, and just what I needed. Rice was unimpressive - I wish I'd just eaten the saag with a spoon. Service was meh - not friendly, but not rude. Didn't really seem interested in serving me - just ticking boxes. read more

For of you out there non veggie and veggie it doesn't matter this place is a must on any restaurant checklist. Aurora is right, they are very friendly and helpful, you are treated so nicely, you are even spoiled and then Sagar becomes the measuring stick of other restaurants, in terms of customer service. It mainly specialises in dishes from South India, like the dosa (rice pancakes type), other wonderful things about this place include the lunchtime special which is a real steal, at £4.50 for a big selection of dishes - it includes dosas, poppadoms and desserts! The place itself seems a bit cramped maybe a couple of tables too many, so it can be annoying when children are running around, so I would recommend going on a weekday. And another thing, £3.75 for a takeaway box is stupidly cheap so it must be taken advantage of immediately. read more

Sagar - Vegetarian Near Me - London, XGL

A real surprise in Hammersmith and worth the trip, the food is out of this world and all home cooked authentic. read more

Sagar - Vegetarian Near Me - London, XGL

It was good service. I asked for tap water and they brought me an expensive bottle water. Food was ok. Nothing exciting. Didn't finish it. The rice was like they had microwaved some veggies into a bowl of rice. read more

Great South Indian food. It's all vegetarian and everything we had was delicious. The kurma was fragrant and creamy, the saag paneer was rich. I had the Sagar special dosa - it was an incredible South Indian pancake filled with delicious vegetable curry. Overall, a nice change from the sometimes heavy and fatty curries common in the city. The service was great. They were nice enough to put a candle in dessert for a birthday. read more

Sagar - Sagar Special dosa - Vegetarian Near Me - London, XGL

This place is overly priced for South Indian food! I can't believe we spent over $100 for dosas, idlis and thali. The food was NOT extraordinary and service was horrible. They need to reduce their prices and improve the service. read more

It brings me great happiness to give this wonderful place a great review. The best thing about dining at Sagar (and there are many wonderful things to chose from) is the fantastic service this place provides. You are not even done drinking your water before they refill it! At Sagar, they never try to push you to order more, they treat you with respect. The atmosphere is elegant and it is reasonably priced. I always get the chana masala which is very clean, fresh and not oily, an Indian rarity. The entire restaurant is vegetarian but as my partner can attest, it is so delicious and accentuated by fresh touches that even meat eaters are blown away. Everyone should eat at Sagar if only to be treated like a queen without paying queen's prices. Or king's prices. Or drag prices..ok nevermind. read more

Having both a wheat and onion allergy it's refreshing and very exciting to come across a place that lists their onion free (as well as garlic free), nut free, vegan and wheat free options in a special menu. There were plenty of options to choose from but in the end I went for one of the Uthappam with tomato and added cheese. It was REALLY good. I also had poppadoms and fried idli which were more like fries than rice dumplings, not that I'm complaining! I took my mum along who is not a fan of Indian food. Why? I asked her. I don't like spicy curries, she said. Not all curries are spicy and not all Indian food is curries. She came along and looked really unsure about it all. She ended up getting a very mild curry and LOVED it. I kid you not, she even said she'd come back and have it again. My Dad wasn't as easily converted but he thought his dosa was okay. My partner really enjoyed his curry too. My mum and partner both wolfed down some desserts, jaggery dosa with ice cream and mango sorbet, both of which they enjoyed. The fresh orange juice was good too. The service was a little slow and a few strange things like they'd bring three glasses of water to a table of four people. It wasn't amazing but it was really good and I wouldn't hesitate to return. read more

Let me just say, I love southern Indian cooking. I prefer it hands down, every time, over northern style dishes. and Sagar did not disappoint. The space is filled with warm wood walls, very modern, with low, but not too low lighting and tastefully selected Hindu/Indian statuary. Our waitstaff were very attentive, if not overly so. I ordered idli and a masala dosa. My 2 pieces of idli came out freshly steamed and with what appeared to be in-house made coconut chutney and sambar. My dosa was crispy and delicious, with a lightly spiced(less spicy than I am used to) potato filling. I ate almost the whole thing. I'll try the mysore masala dosa next time for more kick! I am excited to go back and try their lunch boxes, which looked packed full and are incredibly cheap. We're talking under £5! read more

We had: Special Idli (little rice dumplings with lentils) Potato Bonda (Oh the pleasure!) (to start) Masala Dosa Aloo Ghobi pooris and rice I love this restaurant in Hammersmith and am constantly surprised at the relative dearth of vegetarian Indian restaurants in London. The great thing about eating in one is that it is always an adventure and well removed from the Bengali/North Indian staples we are all used to. The starters were good. I hadn't had Idli before and to be honest could probably give them a miss next time. Whilst they are unusual, I found the dumplings a bit too bland for my taste. The bonda were brilliant-golfball size balls of mildly spiced mashed potato surrounded by a hard crust-utterly brilliant. The masala dosa is always a show stopper-a massive Churchillian cigar of a pancake filled with spiced potato etc. The aloo gobi was also great. All this was mild by North Indian standards, so don't expect it to be hot, but they are wonderfully light and you don't get the same bloated feeling that follows a normal curry (maybe due to no ghee?). A welcome difference and the large bottle of Cobra was very welcome ( as always). Give it a go if your nearby. Four stars not five just because I wasn't a massive fan of the Idli, but other might be. read more

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A driver from the airport recommended this restaurant since I was staying in Hammersmith. It's the BEST Indian food I have ever had!!! EVERYTHING on the menu is vegetarian. Indian food is usually vegetarian friendly already, but to have all these choices, what a bonus! Fried Idli-This, I would describe as a savory corn bread, the texture is quite similar. Mysore Masala Dosa-Curried mashed potatoes in a flaky pancake, love the two combined textures, it just oozes down your throat. Saag Paneer-House-made saag. Yes on the cheese, please. This was less green than I'm used to in the states. There was some red to it. Vegetable Biriyani-The rice was so soft. Everything was perfectly seasoned! What a party in my mouth! This is a nice restaurant with what seems to have an awesome lunch menu and cheap prices. If you are ever traveling in the area or even a local, you must try this place. Now, I've got to fly all the way to London just to get some Indian food. I sure am spoiled now. read more

This place is pretty good, but I have to say that I was expecting a little more after some rave reviews (on here). Maybe it is my bias toward meat, but i was left slightly disappointed by this restaurant. Don't get me wrong, the food is good, the service ok and it's not a bad place. However the food wasn't amazing. The place is cheap, which is a bonus, but then it is vegitarean (and vegetables don't cost much!). I can't quite remember what I had (it didn't make a massive impression) but it was foamy and kind of like a pancake. It was pretty tasty and comes with a nice sauce. This place is no doubt a decent place for some tasty, different Indian grub. However I have to say that I am unsure if I'll go back (which shows that I wasn't overly impressed). read more

I have been wanting to try Sagar for the longest time. So one of the days when the husband and I were shopping on King Street, we decided to do dinner here. When we entered, the place was jam packed with people and it was a surprise we could get a table. The table we were seated on was in quite a cramped area. When we saw a larger table freed and requested for a change, the waiter was nice enough to let us switch. When I opened the menu, I was delighted to read that the cooks are from Udupi - my hometown! Such a delight. The food is more like the kind you would find in a Mumbai Udupi Restaurant (or "Udupi hotel" as they are famously known in Mumbai). It was interesting to see a shift from the usual 'tadka dals'. It also brought a smile on my face to see the actual bhaji (dry/semi-gravy cooked vegetables) instead of the new age onion bhaji. We ordered the sev puri, rava dosa, masala dosa, limbu pani and mysore coffee. The sev puri was pretty good; so were the dosas and limbu pani - quite authentic mostly. We were quite disappointed with the sambar that came with the dosas - quite bland and almost like dal. When asked how we are enjoying our meal, we pointed this out. The waiter voluntarily got us a spicier version - something more akin to how sambar is supposed to be. The coffee was strictly ok. The staff is quite busy - it felt closer to home where the staff is hustling and bustling around. They are very warm and sweet with service and customer engagement. Ambiance can do with a makeover. Tables quite crammed - need some spacing out. Overall a good, closer-to-home feeling for good South Indian/Udupi restaurant food. read more

This place hasn't let us down yet. Vegetarian indian? Hmmm do you think you can do without the tandoori chicken and the lamb bhuna? Well this place proves you can. Simple decor inside, the menu is packed full of stuff you wont come across in ordinary locals. But the prices remain scarily cheap. Dishes are made with care. A good gauge is always what's on offer on the chutney carousel and their chutneys are lovely. Delicately spiced limp pickle, good sweet mango, sweet yoghurt and mint and a nice coconut one. We both ordered a thali each which also comes with starter. The starter was a veg pakora with a nice accompanying sauce and some poppudum. The thali came with about 8 dishes. All felt wonderfully authentic. Lots of runny dals, some paneer, fried aubergine, veg curry, creamy stuff, spicy stuff, a real lovely mix. And two of those fried bread things which puff up. Forgive the ignorance. All I can say is the whole lot was damn tasty and they had to roll the pair of us out of there having spent a meagre £30. With Zing up the road for a classier curry and this down the rough end, we're spoilt for choice. There are other good 'locals' here but this is a cut above at student prices. No frills, just lovely tasty authentic food. It has something of a reputation with in the know locals. Those traveling in for a gig at the odeon or something should deffo give it a crack. read more

I think you have to be a fan of Southern Indian food in order to really appreciate Sagar. I have been to one or two similar places and always left feeling as if I made the wrong choice. I have never been to India and are therefore unable to judge quite how authentic this place is (apparently a lot, according to our friends' friends). I also don't know what to expect from puri, dhosa and uthappam ... the menu offers only very basic descriptions while the staff offer absolutely no guidance! Excellent if you are feeling adventurous and safe as it's all veggie - ie no danger of being served sweet and sour offal ... the fact that it's vegetables only also accounts for prices that seem cheap at first sight. We went in a group of four and all ordered different dishes, everyone opting for something they had never tried before. They didn't actually taste all that different which was a bit of a disappointment. This place is excellent for novelty value - I have certainly never been served a dish as massive as these "pancakes", crispy creations made from lentil. I have also never been able to take a photograph from within my food - you can admire the result above. I have a vegetarian friend who is a big fan of Kerala - she is about the only reason I would return. There is such a great choice of Indian restaurants in London with similarly good, if not better, food - and with much friendlier service. The staff really let the place down, they were as cold and unfriendly as the decor. read more

Sagar - inside my lunch - Vegetarian Near Me - London, XGL

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The 3.50 lunch box is the best deal in town. A good amount of absolutely delicious food, prepared very speedily, perfect for picking up and heading back to the office. Since all the food is vegetarian, you also won't be falling asleep at your desk later in the afternoon (well, I can't guarantee that...) Must try! read more

Having already visited the Twickenham Sagar, I went here with a vegetarian friend. As with my experience in Twickenham, I found that this was a fantastic restaurant with wholesome food of a very good quality. The meal was very affordable. I had the thali (a selection of different dishes served in small bowls on a plate),which I had not had before, but would recommend as it was very tasty and nice to try the different options. I would say that I prefer this restaurant as it is bigger and airier as there is more light and therefore the Decor, whilst simular to Twickenham is more appealing. read more

Just experienced the worst customer service we have ever seen. We were spoken to in an extremely condescending & rude manner (rolling eyes & pulling faces) by the waiter (person of Eastern European decent) when we requested him for some water for our children. It was completely unprovoked & without any cause or incident. This after having eating there the second time in 3 days & ordering £50 worth of food at both times. The restaurant was empty (only 4 tables had customers) and he was not busy when we made the request. On confronting him about it & asking for the manager, he mockingly says he's the manager & we can do whatever we want. One goes out to eat with family to good places & pays for quality of food & service, not to be insulted in front of their children. I wouldn't recommend this restaurant to anyone. I may come across as disgruntled, but if this message spares another person of the same experience, it would have served its purpose. read more

I really enjoyed the lunch special here. The staff were friendly while I was there & the lunch special was totally filling for £3.50 It is all vegitarian so if you don't mind lacking meat & have veggies in your party, this is the perfect place to have an inexpensive meal that will leave you stuffed or take lunch away though you'll need a nap afterwards! read more

Went here for my birthday as I'd been before and really enjoyed it. I'm not a vegetarian, and to be honest I'd very rarely order a vegetarian meal in a restaurant, but the taste and quality of the meals here means you don't miss the meat! Perfect meals, and perfect service. The talis and dosas are excellent! Maybe a tiny bit pricey but worth it, would definitely go again. read more

A very nice vegetarian curry house. Even if you're not a particular fan of vegetarian food, I recommend it, as the food is very nicely prepared, and they specialise in dosa which are not always easy to find elsewhere. Just a small caveat: they don't always make explicit on the menu exactly how hot the dishes are likely to be; that's fine if you like your food hot (I do), but if you're a bit more sensitive to chilli then you might want to check with the waiting staff (who can be a little stand-offish, unfortunately) before ordering. read more

Lovely vegetarian Indian restaurant in Hammersmith. It can be slightly hit-and-miss, but I highly recommend the bhindi bhaji (I've definitely typo'd this, OK), beautiful fresh Okra in warm south Indian spices. The garlic and lemon rice is lovely too; a little bit disappointed with the Kulfi we had but it's a really pleasant change to the usual cheap-chicken Indian restaurants scattered around London. Service not amazing, but friendly-under-duress. read more

Summer Bank holiday Monday... Some staff speak not so good the English, ask for a manager first time you come as the menu needs a guide! Decoration not very lovely, but food good & healthy. read more

The food is hit or miss. The Vadas are sometimes delicious and sometimes reek of stale oil. The sambar & chutney are very average - nothing compared to places like Chennai Dosa. Don't even bother with the Bhel and other Bombay dishes. The service is meh. If you're craving South Indian food - you should go a few feet away to Shilpa, instead. read more

Holy delicious! Sagar is officially my new favourite Indian restaurant in London. Absolutely mouthwatering dishes, unusual flavours and CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. The mysore masala dosa is ridiculously yummy and a starter that can only be described as savory indian donuts was out of this world. Sagar is by far the best Indian food I've had at a non-Michelin starred restaurant in London. read more

Wow the service here was awful. So inattentive! It took us forever for a waiter to take our order and then even longer to be served. Then I wanted a glass to split the bottle of water we got and I couldn't get anybody's attention for the longest time. On top of that the food was positively mediocre. There was something wrong with the texture of the papadums. Everything else was passable, but for a restaurant that was packed with people when we walked in, I was expecting better than mediocre food. Would not recommend. read more

I had been to another location for dinner, so decided to try this one for lunch. Very good! Everything was delicious and the service was quick. We were impressed by the wonderful selections on the vegan menu and even had a delicious organic wine to pair it! I would recommend this place to anyone! read more

Very good chaat, super big crispy dosa and sambar - all very tasty - however if your daughter is too fussy like most women can be then they may not like the more English oriented tasting food I loved it read more

Fantastic Southern Indian and vegetarian restaurant which makes the most divine dosas! These rice 'pancakes' are gorgeous, though they do serve other dishes as well. We love eating here and are spoilt for choice - there are so many excellent meals on the menu! Everything looks and tastes delicious. Friendly service, which always adds to the pleasure. Highly recommended. read more

This is an absolutely excellent South Indian vegetarian restaurant. The lunchtime special is a real steal, at £4.50 for a big selection dishes it even includes dosas, poppadoms and deserts! I'm not actually a veggie but I go there once a week a least and can never finish all the food. The waiters are really friendly and efficient. Anyway I would wholeheartedly recommend it: the portions are so big that everywhere else seems disappointing; it's really refreshing to go to a restaurant where the aim's to give you value for money, not overcharge you. PS. if you get the lunchtime special to takeaway it's only £3.75, which is just stupidly cheap! read more

Have not been to Sagar for a couple of years. We stumbled over it by accident and thought it was great. Lovely clean crisp flavoursome food, outstanding breads, superb panneers (sp.) and all at a good price. If you love Indian food and can cope without bland pieces of chicken this place will suit you. read more

A wonderful place - interesting Ikea meets Monsoon interior. I was delighted that one has now opened in Percy St, central london. Ive always found biryianis to be a bit dull but here its just one amazing flavour after another. They need to make their chai tea more chai instead of tetleys but otherwise always a great meal. read more

Very poor service. Very average food. Go to Shilpa for your South Indian fix.

Great Southern Indian food- Dosa and Vegetarian

Went to sagar for lunch last week, had a great meal. Had a doza, which was very tasty and filling. My partner had a brinjal main, which was great as well. Service seemed friendly and the place has a nice casual atmosphere. The food is not astonishing, just simple and delicious. Would certainly return again, you really couldn't beat it in value for money. read more

This place is a good option if you want something else other than a sandwich for lunch. I work around the corner, and they do a good lunch platter special for £5 veg curry etc. It's a good feed without blowing the lights out. read more

As a South Indian myself, I'm terribly picky about South Indian food. I normally prefer the spicier 'Chennai Dosai' but I have to say this Udupi style restaurant stands out and is definitely very well suited to English tastes as well as to more spiritually minded people who normally steer clear of really spicy food. The lunch thali is superb value for money and every item is immaculately cooked. A word about the staff- they are not unfriendly at all, but respectful. This is the older tradition of Indian catering and is not in keeping with the street ambience of Hammersmith. A middle aged South Indian like myself can see that the staff are actually very good and well trained- 'devo athithi bhava'- the guest is God, in Sanskrit, is their ethos. However, young English people would expect a more informal smiling sort of service. Still, since the Udupi chain has a sort of 'Spiritual' ethos and since the food is very well prepared and 'pure' (sattvic) one can say the respectful service is in line with the branding. The decor too is above and beyond what one might expect from the pricing. Ultimately, food is about health and well being. You can't go wrong eating at Sagar. It more than keeps up the Udupi image and tradition. read more

Splendid. The thali is great. Well prepared. The rasam is excellent. Possibly the best we have had outside of my mother's rasam. The rasa vada is great. We have tried virtually every South Indian item in the menu and cannot find any fault with their renderings of the South Indian staples. You might want to stay away from their north and West Indian dishes. The bhel puri is below average. South Indian stuff is top notch. read more

Pleasant service and decor, and value for money, but food not special enough to warrant the rave reviews, and a little lacking in ambience.

My friend and I had dinner at Sagar last Sunday. We were drawn to this restaurant thanks to the posters on the window promoting cheap set meals. We were too hungry to notice that it was a lunch time promotion. We were a little disappointed to find the prices on the menu much higher than we thought, and the portions were tiny. The food was decent taste-wise, but I won't be back any time soon for dinner. read more