Indian
Created by Will Bowlby, who previously worked at The Cinnamon Club, the dishes are inspired by Southern India but use British ingredients and modern flair to bring them up to date. Samphire pakoras and Keralan fried chicken have become Kricket signatures but there’s a lot to love across the menu, including the likes of Goan sausage croquettes & burnt apple chutney, claypot baked cod, duck leg seekh kebab, and Mangalorean chicken gassi. The Brixton and Canary Wharf restaurants also serve Sunday lunch menus centred around charcoal grilled tandoori chicken, grilled cauliflower and braised leg of lamb, with sides like berry pulao, black garlic & dried chilli raita, and pickled onion & pomegranate salad.
Chit Chaat Chai is definitely not your typical Indian with a focus on chaat, rather than kebabs and curries. After a successful stint on the streets of London town, Tania and Dhruv decided to take the plunge and open a permanent site in Wandsworth to serve up those little savoury street food snacks all week long. And it’s not all about the food here, their colourful interiors are just as much of a draw too with newspaper covered floors and graffitied walls.
Half plates and full drinks is a restaurant concept we can fully get behind and that’s exactly what they do at Talli Joe. The food and the booze have been designed to go hand in hand…there is an entire Pauwa and Chakhna menu that does just that, so you don’t even have to think about it. Small plates equals sharing though, and with dishes like Kale Chaat, Whitebait Kempu, and the standout Nihari Nalli, you’ll want to be trying as much as you can.
The cocktails take inspiration from across India and are handily divided up into north, south, east and west, so you’ll have no trouble in reaching a state of ‘talli’…that’s a happy tipsy, Hindi style.
