National Curry Week 2026: 6 London set menus from £25
From £25 in Fitzrovia to a four-course Belgravia card, six Indian kitchens with the price already fixed
National Curry Week lands in early October, and for seven days one word has to carry a great deal. In London it covers a charcoal sigri in Belgravia, a Mumbai suburb held on to in Fitzrovia, and a dining room of chandeliers inside the old Holborn Town Hall. Every one of them runs a set lunch.
Put the set menus side by side and the split shows. Benares reads India through British farming and the turn of the seasons, while Pahli Hill picks one Bombay neighbourhood and stays inside it. A fixed price is the shortest way into either.
01 | Benares
Mayfair
two or three courses £46 to £52, Mon to Sat, 12pm to 2.30pm
Benares has spent two decades in Mayfair and rewrites its card as the seasons turn, dishes arriving and departing with the weather. The kitchen sets the traditional cuisines of India against contemporary technique, and the Michelin Guide has given it a star for that. Welsh lamb masala shows the thinking plainly: British farming, Indian spicing, one plate.
02 | Jamavar
Mayfair
three or four courses £47 to £54, Mon to Sun, 12pm to 2.30pm
Kashmiri shawls, woven slowly, gave Jamavar its name, and that patience carries into the cooking. The menu travels from the royal kitchens of the North down to the coastal South, which is how butter chicken and Malvani prawn come to sit on the same card. A Michelin star followed within eight months of the Mount Street opening in 2016, and returned in 2022.
03 | Amaya
Belgravia
four courses £60, Mon to Sun
Three fires do all the cooking at Amaya, the tandoor, the tawa griddle and the charcoal sigri, worked in an open kitchen against a wall of pink sandstone. Everything is marinated in regional aromatics before it meets the heat and grilled to order, so plates arrive from the Michelin-starred kitchen in a steady procession, small and unhurried.
04 | Colonel Saab
Holborn
two courses £34.95, Mon to Sat, 12pm to 3pm
Colonel Saab occupies the old Holborn Town Hall, a French Renaissance building of 1894, and fills it with more than 450 objects carried back from travels across India, all of it under twenty-nine chandeliers. The cooking follows the same collector's instinct: each chef takes the region they know best, bringing specialities to the table that London Indian menus had not carried before.
05 | Pahli Hill
Fitzrovia
two or three courses £25 to £32, Tues to Sat, 12pm to 5.45pm
Papadi chaat, then a Mangalore bun arriving with crab sukka: Pahli Hill cooks the regional small plates of one Mumbai suburb and stays close to it. The Mortimer Street address carries its own history, having been the Gaylord curry house before, and downstairs the Bandra Bhai cocktail bar makes an easy hour of the afternoon.
06 | Kahani
Chelsea
three courses £38, Thu to Sat, 12.30pm to 6pm
The tandoor and the charcoal grill carry the cooking at Kahani: lamb seekh kebab with burani raita, then Alleppey stone bass and octopus curry with raw mango, turmeric and coconut. British produce goes in, Indian spicing comes out, opposite Cadogan Hall.
One word covers all of it for seven days, and then the regions go back to being regions. If the week gets away from you, every London lunch set menu sits in one place.