Mowgli Street Food Water Street

You'll smell the spices before you even walk through the door – that's your first sign you're in for something special. This isn't your typical curry house with overly sweet sauces and naan the size of dinner plates. Instead, you're getting Nisha Katona's vision of authentic Indian home cooking translated into shareable small plates that actually make sense. The tiffin boxes are where it's at – proper comfort food like their mother dal that tastes like someone's mum spent hours perfecting it. The room buzzes with conversation and the theatrical presentation (they're big on the whole experience thing) somehow doesn't feel gimmicky. Yes, it's a chain, but it's a chain that actually respects Indian food culture rather than dumbing it down for British palates.