Pahli Hill Bandra Bhai

Absolutely delightful! Pahli Hill’s menu offers a variety of flavours, both in food and drinks. The portion sizes are very generous as well. The Bandra Bhai bar, where we were seated has a great ambience, with friendly staff to top it off. As a vegetarian, it’s often challenging to find a fine dining experience that justifies the price. Highly recommend it to anyone looking for a fine dining spot in London!

Fast becoming one of my favourite restaurants in town. I genuinely think this might be the most underrated restaurant in London. Imaginative food and bursting with layers of flavours. If you haven’t been, you’re missing out.

Absolutely fantastic restaurant, we did the chef's counter experience for a birthday (for the second time, it's that good) and all the food was incredible, chef Avi is great and explains all the dishes to you and is happy to answer questions and have a chat with you. You get to see him finishing off each dish and checking it before it goes out. It's well worth the money as the amount of food you get is ridiculous, we had to take some home as we couldn't finish it. Every dish was amazing, but my stand outs were probably the crab sukkha, kulcha, dosa and the mussels. The chicken tikka is the best I have eaten anywhere and the lamb is cooked so well - I don't usually even like lamb, but this was delicious. The service from all of the team is attentive but not overbearing, Kamal was great and very funny. I highly recommend this restaurant, probably my favourite Indian I've been to. Thanks to all the team & we will definitely be back.

I recently got very obsessed about the Michelin's Guide list of restaurants in London that have a Bib Gourmand status and that's how I found out about this place as I hadn't seen any foodie influencers promoting it and none of my friends knew this place either. As a massive foodie and a lover of Indian food, I naturally had to come try it out and see what my own verdict would be. I made a reservation in advance with 3 friends for a Thursday night for an early birthday celebration. It's not too busy at 7pm and I absolutely loved the interior design. We got seated downstairs and I fell in love with the vibes instantly. It's got the old school Indian pictures and posters to give a retro vibe but it's also kinda of giving a modern stylish finish at the same time. The staff was super attentive and friendly. When I told them one of my friends had a gluten allergy they immediately went away to scrap off a few items on the menu and clearly flagged to us what we shouldn't order to avoid those dishes. We took some time to decide because the entire menu looked amazing but the staff member never once rushed us. In the end, we went for the summer chaat and the mengalorean bun with crab sukkha as starters, switching out the bun for some gluten free Indian style pancakes. They were absolutely fluffy and soft and the crab sukkha was so flavourful and not seafood-y and got a really good kick to it. The summer chaat was absolutely fantastic, one of my personal biggest highlights of our whole dinner I must say. It's so refreshing with the honey figs and peaches. We also ordered the tandoori chicken tikka which was so juicy and tender and well-marinated. We were off to a great start. For mains, we had the saag paneer and fish curry with lamb biryani and a sourdough roti on the side. Again, everything was absolutely delightful. Didn't know spinach puree could have so much flavour and the fish was so tender it basically melted in my mouth. Curry was rich and not overly spicy and the lamb biryani had a good amount of lamb meat in it. The sourdough roti was flaky and fluffy and well-made, went well with the curries. For dessert, we ordered the signature carrot halwa vanilla ice cream which was the absolute highlight for me in the entire meal. I have never had something quite like this before! It's almost like an elevated carrot mash with crushed pistachios sprinkled all around the vanilla ice cream to give it a nutty flavour and crunchy texture. And the flavours were so pleasant they just all worked so well together it's basically like a symphony in my mouth! My friends and I had the best time in this restaurant thoroughly enjoying our dinner and we all agreed that this was probably one of the best modern Indian restaurants we have ever had in London! I will be sure to come back very soon to try the other menu items :)

Amazing cocktails, great food but noisy and cramped. The cocktails are great and make sure you ask for the Bandra Bhai menu if you are dining in the restaurant upstairs. There are some exclusive choices in this and would particularly recommend the Yuzu. The food is also great but maybe could do with some more vegetarian options and clearer marking of them. Not very vegan friendly. The space is quite cramped and so it gets very very loud! Difficult to hold a conversation at peak times.

Food is okay okay, but the rice is overcooked and broken. It's supposed to be long-grain rice. And once we finished the main course, just about to leave, then suddenly the harabhara kebab arrived, which we ordered as a starter.

We were craving for dosa since months. Have eaten it in many restaurants across London but didn’t like it that much!! We had the best dosas here at Pahli Hill. A huge crispy dosa, with delicious sambhar, potatoes and two chutneys. Everyone were so friendly, knowledgeable and welcoming. Mango cheesecake was perfect, delectable!!I must add for me personally, when we sat down the server asked us - if we wanted water on our tables (never in London I have been asked this) he also got ice cubes and lemon slices. So it felt like India, thanks so much to him for being this nice and a good server. Although it was pricey, it was all worth it at the end. I would highly recommend it to others I know. Thanks so much for your hospitality, amazing food and great staff.

Well, well, well! What a delightful & exciting new restaurant in St John’s, Woking of all places! From the very warm welcome as we walked in the front door to the moment they waved us goodbye the experience was genuinely 5 stars! A unique take on Mumbai Street food yet also with some familiar ‘Indian/English’ themes coming through makes it fresh and new but keeps us connected with the great dishes we grew up with. The ingredients were clearly well sourced as everything was A-Grade in flavour, freshness & tenderness. The little complimentary touches at the start and end illustrate an attention to detail often only experienced at posh A Lister venues in London/New York/LA. Quality over quantity was also very welcomed as it enabled us to try a few different dishes off the well constructed menu. We had 2 lamb dishes (one mild one extra spicy), king prawns in a sweeter coconutty blend and the fluffy white breads and rice. Head chef came out for a genuinely friendly and insightful chat about his creations and the stories behind them. What a gem! I rarely give 5 stars but if we could give 6 this would definitely be the restaurant that gets them! Please go and see for yourself. Stunning.