We are Londoning!: Dishoom

I had the chance to visit India a few years ago as I friend of mine moved there to work for a year. I fell in love with the country, their culture and, of course, their food. Living in London it's easy to keep being immersed in Indian food - many would say curry is the British national dish - as the offer of Idian food is endless.

Dishoom is a place that everyone talks about since it opened a couple of years ago, or maybe more. Even if it might be more popular as a place to have drinks - given the constant queue there is to get to the bar area downstairs - the food is so rich that should be unmissable. The menu holds classics as the chicken tikka, but it has such a variety of different options that makes it hard to make a choice. We were well recommended by a friend for the starters that we share (samosas, bhel, okra fries, and paneer) but I don't think you can go wrong. Then I went for the special, some fish steamed with banana leaves and a sauce to die for, but everything else - I tried everyone else's dish - was simply brilliant.

We were a bit overwhelmed by the speed the dishes came into the table, so we got to eat quite quickly - also because we got extremely excited by the mixture of thrilling flavours - but then we had time to relax and make some room for dessert - look at the chocolate mousse; yummy! So it's a highly recommended place to go for dinner, especially in a group as you'll be able to taste more things :-)