Southall, Indian Restaurant Guide

This veteran purveyor of “delicious” Pakistani/South Asian cuisine represents “really excellent value for the amount of food provided” – and as for the quality, its many fans insist it delivers among “the best lamb chops around”. Founded back in 1968 as a grocery serving the diaspora in Southall, it became a fully fledged restaurant in 1994 and now seats 180 guests in the main restaurant and another 180 in the ‘lounge’ function room upstairs.

In Parkside Yards – part of Southall’s new Green Quarter development, close to the station, which has transformed a former gasworks into ‘one of one of the UK’s most biodiverse and ambitious regeneration projects’, apparently – this late April 2025 arrival (with 80 covers and a spacious outside area) is Dipna Anand’s follow-up to Brilliant (RIP): her family’s famous destination in the nearby ’burbs that closed simultaneously after 50 years. In its place, this new launch promises a more contemporary take on Indian cuisine, with European techniques and influences (although karahi gosht, masala chicken and samosa chaat will still be served).