City Of Paris Banqueting & Curry House

You'll walk into City Of Paris expecting one thing and find yourself pleasantly wrong. This Bethnal Green institution does the banqueting hall thing properly—big tables, proper occasion energy—but the menu's where it gets interesting. The kitchen takes classical Indian cooking seriously whilst maintaining the kind of generosity you want when you're here with a crowd. It's the sort of place where you book for birthdays and anniversaries, but locals keep coming back because the food's genuinely good and the room feels like somewhere that's been doing this for ages.