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Pure Indian Cooking | Authentic Indian Dining Experience

PURE Indian cooking prides itself in being a family run restaurant and one with impeccable credentials.

Owned by the husband and wife team of Faheem Vanoo and Shilpa Dandekar, both of whom started their careers with the famed Taj group in India, PURE Indian Cooking opened in 2015.

Since then, with Faheem managing front of house and Shilpa, who has worked with such masterchefs as the legendary Raymond Blanc OBE and Sriram Aylur of the Michelin starred Quilon, heading the kitchen, the restaurant has amassed a strong following as a refined as an exceedingly good local restaurant, with many clientele calling it a London “West End restaurant in Fulham!”

We would be delighted to see you at PURE Indian Cooking so please come and share in our warmth, fabulous food and drink and wonderful hospitality.

Review: PURE Indian Cooking - Cooksister | Food, Travel ...

But then it’s not every day that I am invited to review an Indian restaurant headed up by a female chef – and PURE Indian Cooking is one such restaurant.

Both Faheem and Shilpa honed their skills at high-end London Indian restaurants including the Bombay Brasserie and Quilon, while Shilpa was one of the opening team for the very first Brasserie Blanc and later its Head Chef under the guidance of Michelin-starred owner Raymond Blanc OBE.

After starting their business serving only Indian takeaways, at the end of 2015 they opened PURE, with Faheem managing front of house and Shilpa heading a team of chefs in the kitchen.

The other lamb dish was the lamb sukke Maharastrian style lamb cooked in dry spices (£12.00) – the dishes looked not dissimilar, but the flavouring and spices were strikingly distinctive and both were subtle and elegant dishes with incredibly tender meat,  As accompaniments we had fresh, hot Peshwari naan (£2.50) and a bowl of excellent dal makhani, traditionally prepared lentils that are cooked overnight with mild spices to a rich and creamy consistency.

So often our impression of cuisine from the Indian subcontinent in this country is shaped by late-night trips to Brick lane curry houses where I swear sometimes there is a central dispensing point for tikka masala/jalfrezi/vindaloo sauce that each restaurant simply pumps over a plate of cooked chicken via a complicated system of pipework directly into the kitchen, so generic is the food across some restaurants.

Pure Taste, London W2, 'paleo' restaurant review - Telegraph

Pure Taste looks, misleadingly I think, like an ordinary restaurant – spacious and perfectly comfortable, but with very little visual identity, just tables and chairs.

The case contained no starch, in accordance with the “specific carbohydrate diet” (a paleo offshoot: “the allowed foods are mainly those that early man ate before agriculture began”, according to the SCD website).

D’s steak with salsa verde, sweet-potato shards and salad (£32) was not good at all.

D’s lemon and coconut posset was almost salvaged in flavour by the passion-fruit purée, but the texture was impossible to choke down – grotesquely sticky, heavy and slimy.

Pile your plate with the colourful winter salad featuring yellow and red beetroot, pumpkin and apple (£1.92 per 100g)

PURE Indian Cooking Restaurant Review: Refined Indian Cooking ...

An Indian restaurant with a visionary female head chef named Shilpa Dandekar, cooking dishes with passion which have been inspired by memories of India.

A must order when dining here at PURE Indian Cooking and what a way to start our meal!

A classic chaat dish with yogurt, tamarind chutney, onion, tomato and pomegranate – but those familiar shards of crispy bread were replaced by crispy kale.

Two dishes you look at and really can’t judge as a bowl filled with just one block colour, but take a bite and you’re transported to a place of pure refinement.

I loved how PURE Indian Cooking turned out to be such a pleasant surprise and completely surpassed all of my expectations.

Silo, restaurant review: 'Imagination, ambition, and purest-of-pure ...

That is, I used to think in that negative way until I ran into Douglas McMaster, the brains behind Silo, a new restaurant located in groovy North Laine, Brighton.

His website features a high-concept blog, in which he lays out his big plan: Silo isn't a restaurant, he says, it's "a pre-industrial food system that generates zero waste".

Walk past an immaculate flour mill and an "Organics Compositor" , and you'll find yourself in a barn-like space, where tattooed hipsters prepare food at a steel altar, while you make yourself comfortable on cubes of chipboard at metallic tables, drinking from washed-up jam jars and perusing a menu apparently made from recycled loo roll.

Not everything is perfect about Silo: the wine list is limited (because, of course, they don't allow anything that comes ready-packaged, like wine bottles) and their drinks licence stops at 8.30pm.

Silo, 39 Upper Gardner Street, North Laine, Brighton, BN1 4AN (01273 674259).

Pure Cyprus

Based in the heart of Finsbury Park, the NEW Pure Cyprus restaurant provides the local community a quality of Greek food that's a cut above the rest.

Our real Greek cuisine not only delivers on flavour, but also on authenticity - real Greek ingredients, chefs and music add to the atmosphere.

Enjoy a classic Sheftalia or Moussaka, compliment it perfectly with a selection of delicious sides Come and visit us at 14 Goodwin Street, you can book a table online here.

Or you can order online right now for collection or delivery.

Grace Dent reviews Pure Taste London | London Evening Standard

With this in mind, my editor was overjoyed to learn of Pure Taste, the UK’s first paleo restaurant, situated on Westbourne Grove.

It excludes any dabbling with milk, cream, butter, wheat, rice, oats, cornmeal, barley, bread, pasta, oatmeal, tortillas, beans, alfalfa sprouts, peas, beans, lentils, soybeans, peanuts, processed oil, refined sugar and a dozen other things you probably didn’t even know you liked and now, damn it, they’re verboten.

At Pure Taste — which was chaotically busy the night I visited — the bread basket was coconut flour flatbread or rosemary plantain crackers with mashed avocado butter at £4.50.

Furthermore, I would challenge anyone to try Pure Taste’s dry, powdery wild mushroom and red onion tart and find a pleasant word to say on the matter.

Pure Taste London 115 Westbourne Grove, W2 (020 7727 5000; puretasterestaurant.com) 3 Prosecco brut £27 1 still water £2 1 bread basket £4.50 1 wood pigeon salad £12 1 mushroom tart £8 1 ribeye £32 1 canon of venison £27 1 glass Montepulciano £8 1 sticky toffee pudding £10 12.5 per cent service £16.31 TOTAL   £146.81 Browse Grace Dent's latest restaurant reviews Browse Grace Dent's latest restaurant reviews 1/10 El Pastór 2/10 Radio Alice 3/10 Lingholm Kitchen 4/10 Luca 5/10 Anzu 6/10 Temper Paul Winch-Furness 7/10 Smokestak Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures 8/10 Noble Rot 9/10 Laughing Heart Evening Standard / eyevine 10/10 Park Chinois

Pure Taste, London W2, 'paleo' restaurant review - Telegraph

Pure Taste looks, misleadingly I think, like an ordinary restaurant – spacious and perfectly comfortable, but with very little visual identity, just tables and chairs.

The case contained no starch, in accordance with the “specific carbohydrate diet” (a paleo offshoot: “the allowed foods are mainly those that early man ate before agriculture began”, according to the SCD website).

D’s steak with salsa verde, sweet-potato shards and salad (£32) was not good at all.

D’s lemon and coconut posset was almost salvaged in flavour by the passion-fruit purée, but the texture was impossible to choke down – grotesquely sticky, heavy and slimy.

Pile your plate with the colourful winter salad featuring yellow and red beetroot, pumpkin and apple (£1.92 per 100g)