Prepare for some serious feasting
Every autumn, Diwali (also known as the festival of lights) symbolises the triumph of goodness and light over evil and darkness, as celebrators illuminate darker evenings with lanterns and diyas and share warming feasts made up of a number of courses.
This year, the main event of the five-day celebration falls on Mon 20th October but the Diwali 2025 celebrations are running across October. From outstanding limited-time menus to spectacular live performances to impressive light installations, here’s how to get involved in Diwali in London this year.
Bombay Bustle
Maddox Street’s Bombay Bustle, helmed by Samyukta Nair, is marking Diwali with a vibrant, one-of-a-kind feast. Joining Samyukta and Culinary Director Surender Mohan is best-selling author and Great British Bake-Off semi-finalist Chetna Makan. The £75pp curated menu blends Bombay Bustle’s refined flavours with Chetna’s home-style creativity. Highlights include Chilli Garlic Chicken, Kashmiri Lamb Rogan Josh, and Mirchi Baingan Ka Salan, served with Gobi Methi Aloo, spiced baby potatoes, Jeera Pulao, Masala Puri and Chetna’s signature Masala Chai Tres Leches Cake.
Until Tues 21st October 2025
29 Maddox St, London W1S 2PA
bombaybustle.com
Jamavar
Jamavar, the Michelin-starred Indian restaurant from Samyukta Nair presents a limited-edition feasting menu designed for sharing. Priced at £138pp, the experience begins with the Jamavar Jewel Box, brimming with snacks. The main feast, curated by Surender Mohan, features small plates such as Muter Tikki Chaat with petit pois, followed by Dill Malai Tikka and stone bass with cream cheese, crushed pepper, chilli, and dill. Guests then enjoy a choice of signature dishes: Old Delhi Butter Chicken or Kerala Prawn Biryani plus an additional wine flight, for £98pp.
Weds 15th – Tues 21st October 2025
8 Mount Street, Mayfair, W1K 3NF
jamavarrestaurants.com
Ambassadors Clubhouse
Ambassadors Clubhouse is putting on a five-course feast for Diwali this year, with both veggie and non-veggie options available. Dishes include BBQ butter chicken chop, tawa masala crab cheela, dunghar paneer tikka, ranjit shahi lobster curry, and dark chocolate & peanut kheer with banana chikki.
Sat 18th – Mon 27th October 2025
25 Heddon St, London W1B 4BH
a,ambassadorsclubhouse.com
Trishna
Over at Trishna you can celebrate with the Taste of Trishna menu, featuring dishes like half lobster cafreal, mallard gilafi seekh, and tandoori lamb chops. There’s a dedicated veggie menu available too and the option to add on wine pairing for £90.
Mon 13th – Weds 22nd October 2025
15-17 Blandford Street, London W1U 3DG
trishnalondon.com
Osterley Park and House
Osterley Park and House is lighting up this autumn and hosting its first-ever Marigold Festival to coincide with Diwali. There’ll be a marigold installation throughout the house, alongside a light projection by Leo & Hyde, plus a rangoli inspired by the house’s original floor design in the entrance hall. Across the autumn and winter, the House will also host Indian drum workshops and sari wreath making workshops, with BAPS West London performing an Aarti ceremony on 25th October.
Weds 22nd October 2025 – Sun 4th January 2026
Osterley Park and House, Jersey Rd, Isleworth TW7 4RB
nationaltrust.org.uk
Brigadiers
Brigadiers are bringing out a Diwali feast of their classics designed to be shared with friends. Priced at £100 per head, the menu will include the likes of achari duck with crispy skin, oxtail & sweet potato samosa, tandoori guinea fowl tikka changezi, and dum venison biryani, with sides of daal makhani and pine nut & onion pilau.
Fri 17th – Sun 26th October 2025
1 Bloomberg Arcade, London EC4N 8AR
brigadierslondon.com
Cinnamon Collection
Vivek Singh is celebrating Diwali across all five of his restaurants across October. At Cinnamon Bazaar in Covent Garden and Richmond, he’s doing an eight-course feast for £39 per person, at the Cinnamon Club in Westminster you can get a five course menu for £65 (plus a wine pairing for £40) and then at the Cinnamon Kitchen restaurants in Battersea and the City, you can go all out with a nine-course feast for £45 per person and £48 per person respectively.
Until Fri 31st October 2025
Battersea, Westminster, Covent Garden, Richmond & the City
thecinnamoncollection.com
Greenwich Peninsula
On Sat 18th October, Greenwich Peninsula is celebrating Diwali with a packed programme of events. You can decorate your own Dandiya sticks, make Diwali lanterns, join in dance rehearsals for Dandiya Raas and Garba, and follow a procession featuring an illuminated rickshaw, four Dhol drummers and ten Garba dancers through Design District. Of course, there’ll also be plenty of food available at Canteen Food Hall & Bar, where DJs will be spinning Bollywood and South Asian tunes.
Sat 18th October 2025
Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10
greenwichpeninsula.co.uk
Babur
South London institution Babur is throwing a Diwali party on 20th October, where the restaurant will be decked out in candlelight, a Bollywood dance group will be performing and the kitchen will be serving a five-course tasting menu, including sweet potato & makhana chaat, tandoori salmon dill tikka, duck Chettinad pie, kale & paneer kofta, and saffron balushahi. And if you can’t make the actual party, the Diwali menu will be running for the week.
Tues 21st – Sun 26th October 2025
119 Brockley Rise, London, SE23 1JP
babur.info
Kanishka
Atul Kochhar is celebrating Diwali at Kanishka with a six-course tasting menu at £95 per person. Blending British ingredients with Indian flavours, the menu includes dishes like achari paneer tikka, lehsuni palak chenna, rogan josh wellington, and gulab jamun saffron brulee.
Tues 14th – Tues 21st October 2025
17-19 Maddox Street, London W1S 2QH
kanishkarestaurant.co.uk
Kricket Shoreditch
Kricket Shoreditch is launching a new £15 breakfast thali on 20th October to mark Diwali. The thali includes a fluffy pao filled with the likes of crispy bacon and tomato chutney, spicy Goan sausage with salli potatoes, or a fried egg; eggs bhurji; Andhra hash browns; grilled mushrooms; chole; tamarind brown chutney; and vanilla shrikhand with granola, blackberries and seasonal fruit salad, served alongside a cup of masala chai. To celebrate the new dish, the restaurant will be giving away the first 30 breakfast thalis ordered each day from 20th – 31st October.
Mon 20th – Fri 31st October 2025
36 Charlotte Road, London EC2A 3PG
kricket.co.uk
