Nagina Restaurant

You're walking down Ilford Lane past the usual high street shops when you clock Nagina's warm glow spilling onto the pavement. Inside, it's packed on weekends: families sharing platters, groups of mates tucking into karahi with naan, the kind of controlled chaos that signals good food at fair prices. The menu reads like someone actually knows what they're doing—proper house specials alongside the classics, and the kitchen doesn't mess about with heavy-handed shortcuts. Twenty-odd years in and they've earned their stripes with locals who keep coming back.