It’s a relatively recent development that some of London’s best lunches are homemade curries found in corner shops around town. All wonderfully affordable, too: rice and a choice of one, two, sometimes three curries for £6 or thereabouts. Often there are breads and well-spiced samosas for little more than a quid; bags of poppadoms aren’t irregularly thrown in for free. More reason to avoid Leon.
Not to be too parenthetical, but it’s a heartening and welcome trend in London and testament to the city’s diversity and intrigue. Corner shops aren’t just places to buy baked beans and knock-off Dubai chocolate, they’re family-run, independent locales that serve a community — none more so than those which sell some of the best dals around.
