"Stylish in a minimalist way, this contemporary Kerala restaurant in Kilburn is the sort of place where regulars get chatting, exchange business cards, and sometimes end up doing business or holidaying together. It’s on the former site of long-established Geeta, a South Indian restaurant that changed hands several times before closing a decade ago. The cooking here is much better though. There’s BDF — beef dry fry in which wafer-thin beef slices are deep-fried with onions and curry leaves; and peppery duck roast from Kerala’s Christian community that’s ubiquitous in toddy shops during festivals. There’s also an intriguing dish of mushrooms with fresh coconut and ginger wrapped in banana leaves, slow-cooked on a tawa according to the chef’s mother’s recipe; sweet, mellow plantain curry in yoghurt and coconut; and amazingly flaky, multi-layered miniature coin parottas not seen elsewhere." - Sejal Sukhadwala
