The city’s oldest surviving Indian restaurant, on prestigious Regent Street.
Now in its 97th year overlooking Regent Street, the restaurant remains a standard bearer for Indian cuisine in London, with luxuriously ornate interiors paying a modern homage to its long history.
After nearly a century, and many redesigns Veeraswamy offers guests a memorable array of dining options overlooking Regent Street from the first floor. The Regency Room offers eclectic luxury, with a cabinet of artefacts and Maharajah-era dress at its entrance.
It may have opened in 1926 but this celebrated Indian restaurant just keeps getting better and better!
The Verandah Room adds foliage and the quiet overlook of Swallow Street, for a natural-light-filled lunch.
The Paisley Room’s 1920s velvet and flowing fabrics most directly recalls the restaurant’s illustrious past.
The room is awash with colour, and it’s run with great charm and enormous pride
The menu journeys through the Hyderabadi and Mughal history of its founding days and the contemporary expertise of owners MW Eat.
A slow-braised shahi patalia raan wraps a lamb shank in golden puff pastry, to be served with a sauce of bone marrow, saffron, and rose, in the tradition of southeastern Punjabi palaces.
The restaurant is also renowned for its slow-cooked dishes, including a rogan josh from Kashmir, with the heady fragrance of saffron and mawal, the cockscomb flower.
Light and carefully grilled dishes of seafood sit well alongside the slower-cooked dishes and royal biryanis and curries.
As the menus have evolved over nearly a century, so too they do at lunchtime and weekend brunch, where lighter, brisk dishes take centre stage.
As at siblings Chutney Mary and Amaya, there is a pioneering wine list that precisely matches white, red, rosé, and sparkling wines to the unique spicing and character of different dishes, alongside a playful range of Indian-inspired cocktails.
"Perhaps the best meal we've ever had anywhere any time! Attentive and charming staff."
"Simply fantastic! Every element of the meal was superb and service was first class. I would highly recommend this historic establishment to anybody that enjoys traditional Indian cuisine."
"Superb! The food was sublime and keeps getting better. For us this institution is the jewel in the crown."