Brilliant is Southall’s longest-standing Indian restaurant, having first opened back in 1975. Its roots are in Nairobi, where the family business’ patriarch Bishen Dass Anand launched Brilliant in the fifties. It was two of Anand’s sons who opened the London edition of Brilliant, which started out as a small 30-cover restaurant and has since grown to a huge 220-cover institution. Anand’s granddaughter, Dipna, is now at the helm, serving up an award-winning Punjabi menu of exceptionally executed classics. Don’t miss the ‘Brilliant’ signatures: butter, jeera or chilli chicken.