7 Indian restaurants in London have been crowned the best in the UK

Few cuisines are quite as beloved in the UK as Indian – and this country’s Indian food scene boasts a vast amount of variety. Not only is there a curry house for every kind of Indian cuisine but those restaurants come in all shapes and sizes, from cherished local curry houses to dependable chains and Michelin-starred eateries. 

Out to celebrate the nation’s best Indian restos is British Indian Good Food Guide (BIGFG), which recently published its list of the best 20 restaurants in the UK for 2024. And excitingly, several institutions in that top 20 are right here in the capital.

The highest-ranking London restaurant in the top 20 was Quilon, a Michelin-starred place near St James’s Park that serves up coastal Indian cuisine. Quilon came second, with the BIGFG describing it as ‘among the new generation of Indian restaurants specialising in lighter sauces and a more eclectic menu’.

London scooped third place in this year’s list, too, with Benares Restaurant & Bar, while Michelin-starred Tamarind came sixth and Kanishka placed seventh. 

Also in the top 20 was Regent’s Street’s Veeraswamy, which came 13th and says it’s the ‘oldest Indian restaurant in the UK’, while two more of the capital’s institutions closed out the list: Darjeeling Express at 18 and Kachori at 20. 

Congrats to those four restaurants! You can find all the restaurants in the British Indian Good Food Guide here.

Time Out and London’s best Indian restaurants

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