Long-standing Indian restaurant specialising in Cochinese cuisine, using coconut and spices.
"This Kerala stalwart in Tooting has been around for over 30 years; and the owners also run two central London restaurants, Malabar Junction and Ragam. It’s cosy as a sitting room in a Kerala home, with comfy leather chairs, dusky pink and bare brick walls festooned with ornaments like nettipattam, and almost life-sized figures of deities. Cashew nut pakoras are a retro dish not seen in London’s South Indian restaurants much these days, so order them whenever they’re found to nibble with drinks; here, they’re both tender and crunchy at the same time. Kerala’s own KFC — Kerala fried chicken, with or without bone — comes with warm notes of fresh ginger, garlic, and curry leaves. Seafood is notable, with Malabar fish curry and king prawn Malabar both flavoured with the intriguing back note of kudampuli, a tangy, smoky fruit that’s known as ‘fish tamarind’ due to its liberal use in seafood dishes of the region. Even those who don’t like okra are guaranteed to love the version here, the bright green pods steeped in a gravy given wonderful depth of flavour from tamarind, coconut, and liberal use of spices." - Sejal Sukhadwala
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