Temple Bar Restaurant

I really enjoy the food here. The atmosphere is lovely as well and you can carry on a conversation without screaming at each other. The waitstaff is very attentive. I have visited this restaurant twice on my last visit and once again this trip and the food is excellent. My hotel was across the street so this was really convenient.

I’ve been going to this place for years ever since I worked on Fleet Street. This was a friday lunchtime staple. Although I now work in the west end whenever I meet up with friends for curry we go here. Excellent food, quiet and a little off the beaten track. Best of all there’re are great pubs in the immediate vicinity.

Hidden away in a basement down a back street off Chancery Lane and Fleet Street is a very fine Indian restaurant. The menu is comprehensive and in the best tradition of the UK curry house. It’s raised to another level by the fact that the ingredients are always good — no scrag end dressed up as fillet here — and by the long-​serving staff. They’ll happily dish up off-​menu items if you ask nicely, from a pedestrian but well-​executed tandoori roti to a rather more off-​piste paan.
The beer’s where they make their money, so go easy on those big bottles of Cobra if you’re on a tight budget.
The basement is cool in Summer, and has a subtle advantage in making it vaguely plausible to claim that lack of mobile phone reception caused you to overrun that Friday lunch. How you explain the colour of your tongue from the betel is another question entirely.
They do take-​out, but not delivery (I think).