Finding The Best Curry House In London | Food Tours | Insider Food

Long story short for the non-brits. As a British-Indian, a lot of our grandparents migrated to the UK after WW2, and a second influx in the 60's, to help bolster the British economy. Despite being in this new environment, we we were in touch with our Indian food and continued making it in our houses. British locals and neighbours could smell the curries we were cooking and were intrigued, they began knocking on our doors asking to see what we were cooking, try the food, to our surprise they really liked it! Indians then began hosting the local British community and neighbours for meals in their houses, and selling curry pastes through knock-door sales. The demand became so big, we eventually burst onto the restaurant scene, and the rest is history. Indian food culture in the UK is probably the same equivalent as the Mexican food culture in US.

"Can you just stop colonizing for like five minutes?", I spit out my coffee hearing this... keep up the great work Harry and Joe!

This show really fills the Buzzfeed "Worth It" hole that's in my heart

I love that Harry said that saying "Naan bread" is like saying "bread bread". I instantly thought about Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse and Pavitr saying that.

Highlight of the month when Joe and Harry do food tours. Can we get a show where they travel the world eating local dishes together

I’m actually blown away by how well researched Harry is. Massive respect man. The banter between these two legends always makes me smile

I used to know someone who would always insist on going to a curry house for a meal out, but he didn't like curry, and would order ham, egg and chips EVERY TIME! To this day I find that truly baffling.

Every British Asian Londoner has their views about the best Indian places in London, but I'd say its hard to say you've experienced the best without going to Southall, which is full of amazing North Indian places, like Roxys and Omis, which have to be good to survive the really stiff competition, and serve amazing and truly authentic home-style Indian food. Then Bombay Brasserie and Bombay Palace around Shaftesbury Avenue serve really high quality, restaurant style Indian. Laguna in Ealing is also another outstanding place.

Joe and Harry have such good chemistry together

Love this series! Harry and Joe have great chemistry.

Hear my voice!!! Joe and Harry need to do a travel series. I would endlessly rewatch the two of you trekking through Southeast Asia or South America.

vindaloo is one of those funny dishes where restaurants hyper-correct themselves and will put potatoes in because they see "aloo", but the name comes from Portuguese "vinho de alho" - wine / vinegar and garlic - and didn't contain potatoes.

When they talked about Indian not really being culturally significant in the US like it is in Britian, the only comparison i could make is Mexican. Mexican food has been a part of the US since the beginning, and our people are increadibly mixed. Every city and town in the US has a great mexican restaurant or 2. I also think most Americans can name 15-20 mexican dishes the same way british people can with Indian.

married couple vibes are strong in this one, especially with the food serving 😂

The name Vin Daloo comes from the portugese 'Vin D'alho' meaning wine (vinegar) and garlic -- it's not Aloo as in potato

I believe Nikhil would do an excellent job in explaining more about Indian cuisine to Joe and harry

Tayyabs lamb chops are to die for. Their buttery naans are also the best I've ever had.

London restaurants visited: 1. Tayyabs, Whitechapel, East London. 2. Curry Bazaar, Brick Lane East London. 3. Punjab Indian Restaurant, Covent Garden, Central London. 4. Spice Village, Tooting, South London

That girl had zero clue about Indian food😅😅

Been waiting for the next of this series !! Love this content so much, you both are excellent personalities and the food is excellent + the camera work is spot on. Such a pleasure and look forward to the next, thank you Insider Food for the great work !