La Porte Des Indes
La Porte Des Indes
(Past Award Winner)
32 Bryanston Street
London
W1H 7AE
Tel: +44 (0)20 7224 0055
Web: www.pilondon.net (www.pilondon.net)
Hours: 1200-1430 Monday to Friday (to 1500 Sun) and 1900-2330 Monday to Saturday (Sun 1800-2230)
Once a ballroom, which blossomed in the wartime 1940s, owner Karl Steppe applied his Blue Elephant Restaurant Group décor touch. You can easily see how transforming this vast place cost a lot of money. Features include a sandstone arch, a 40-foot waterfall, a sweeping staircase made of white marble with pink sandstone balustrades, imported from Jaipur.
The lunch presentation of food on raised copper salvers is opulent and attractive and you can try an ‘eat-as-much-as-you-like’ meal for £19.90. La Porte has become an Indian’s Indian, with an ever-increasing clientele from the subcontinent. Branches: Blue Elephant Thai, London SW6.