Jason E.
Yelp
This is the recently renamed Cafe Naz at Corvino, the review of which seems to have disappeared. I started eating their lunch time buffet about 3 years ago when it was a much smalled affair and I was often the only person here. It is now absolutely stupendous and very popular. It is a multifloored barn of a place but only the ground floor is open at lunch times. If there are just a couple of you, just turn up, if you are in a group, by which I mean more than 4 then it's best to call ahead. Group wise they can fit an almost unlimited number, by which I mean hundreds.
The lunchtime buffet is £10, but by the time you've had a lassi or Cobra and the naan which you didn't request you will have spent £15-20. It is a tremendous buffet which seems to get bigger by the week and they vary a number of the dishes which is nice too. The buffet is excellent for non-veggies and veggies alike, there are normally about 4 starters and salads, four meat curries, four chicken curries, four vegetarian curries and side dishes and a prawn curry. There are also deserts, which I have seen but never had sufficient capacity for after gorging myself on chicken tikka, pakora, aloo chat, and several trips to the food counters. This is undoubtedly the best buffet in the area (and I include Brick Lane) and as far as a Bangladeshi take on British Indian food goes about as good as it normally gets. Their dhal is thin but perfectly counterpoints their pilau rice.
Arrive between 12pm and 1:30pm, by 2pm most of the food has been waffled and they do a meagre trade so the selection is lower. Don't bother coming in the evening, it feels cold and a little devoid of atmosphere, you will also have to eat ala carte. This is a lunch place.
This place is where my Indian development team come en masse when it's time for one to make the long trip back home and that should say all that needs to be said.