Bombay Spice Nashta House

The Best Western Indian Restaurants in London | Eater London

"This tiny, chaotic, daytime-only Surti vegetarian café is as unfancy as they come: plain interior, scuffed furniture, stacks of boxes — and the much-adored owner Raju Bhai talking loudly with customers in between phone calls. There are daily changing thalis served between 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. — the rest of the time the venue lives up to its name of a ‘nashta house’, which means a snack bar. A half plate each of Surti sev khaman and sev khamani cooked by the owner’s wife is a fine choice: steamed, savoury chickpea flour ‘cakes’, whole or crumbled, topped with sev, red onions, and chutneys. The place is rammed at weekends when Gujaratis travel great distances for Surti undhiyu: Surat’s famous casserole of purple yam, sweet potatoes, fresh hyacinth beans, and pigeon peas — mercifully not ruined by tomatoes and sweetcorn as is often the case in London." - Sejal Sukhadwala