"What’s more important on your birthday? The fuss, the glamour, or the spread that’s put on for you? If your answer is the latter, then you should be giving Namak Mandi a call, stat. The Tooting Pashtun restaurant offers an experience, a meal, and a workout all in one. If you’ve pre-ordered the lamb sajji, they’ll seat you in one of their white-lit, pillow-laden upstairs glutton chambers. Here you’ll sit cross-legged, eat a nation’s supply of kabli pulao, and attack some of the most luscious, tender meat in London." - heidi lauth beasley, jake missing, rianne shlebak, sinead cranna