From the same backers as Chelsea’s excellent The Painted Heron SW10, an exemplary contemporary-style budget Indian, by Waterloo Station.
What the team has clearly learned – and about time – are the virtues of location, location and location. The Painted Heron is still not as well known as it deserves to be, largely as a result of its hidden-away location, off the Chelsea Embankment. An offshoot in Kennington, similarly poorly-sited, didn’t last. The Bangalore site, however, is bang opposite Waterloo and – assuming it maintains standards – should be an absolute boon for all in, or passing through, the area.
How odd, incidentally, that two Chelsea near-neighbours –The Painted Heron and Cheyne Walk Brasserie – have, via offshoots, ended up even nearer neighbours in Waterloo. After a year in operation, however, the Cheyne offshoot – the Waterloo Brasserie – still doesn’t offer service as good as the Bangalore Express was managing in its first week.
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