Veteran Indian chef Brinder Narula to oversee the food at Kachori when it launches next month
Announced late last year, the 132-cover restaurant (96 inside and a further 36 on the terrace) is set to open in early June within Lendlease’s Elephant Park development.
The all-day dining restaurant is the creation of restaurateur Sorowar Khan and food and hospitality consultant Humayun Hussain.
Narula - who is one of the UK’s most experienced Indian chef’s having headed the kitchens of two of Mayfair’s most prominent Michelin-starred Indian restaurants - has penned a regional Indian menu that will explore the food from places including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the Punjab and include influences drawn from the regional communities of Marwari, Jains, Raiputs and Moghuls.
Small plates will include dal chilla taco (crispy lentil crepes, asafoetida-tempered mash potatoes, shengdana podi, Mathania chilli and coconut chutney) and the eponymous kachori (a sweet and spicy deep fried snack).
There are nods to street food throughout the menu with options including the BC Chicken Burger (buttermilk crunchy chicken fillet, brioche bun, mango chutney, lettuce, coleslaw, tomatoes, shengdana crumble, BC sauce) with masala chips.
Larger dishes include Malay Meen cod loin with lemon grass, galangal, yellow mustard, coconut, tamarind; and Keralan beef chilli Ulathu (slow-cooked sliced beef in caramelised onion, curry leaves, Teliicherry black pepper, garlic, green chilli).
Breakfast will be served Monday to Friday from early June encompassing Indian and non-Indian items to ‘cater for the weekday workers from home and business meetings’ while Saturday Brunch will follow on from July.
The interior designer on the project is Annabel Harrison of Fare INC, whose hospitality designs include Kolamba restaurant in Soho.
Lendlease is delivering Elephant Park, a £2.5 billion regeneration project in Elephant & Castle, in partnership with Southwark Council.
Once complete, it will include over 3,000 homes, 50 new retail and leisure units and 50,000 sq ft of workspaces, centred around a new two-acre park.
Kachori will join venues including neighbourhood pub The Rosy Hue, Mexican-fusion restaurant and bar Cheeky Chicos, and Korean-Japanese restaurant Kokoro.
