Little India...or Brick Lane

Everyone always talks about how good the Indian food in London is, so I have been excited to try it out since I got here 4 days ago. I came really close yesterday when a few other London Business School students and I decided to get Indian for lunch at a place near Bond Street called Rasa. Unfortunately, I had plans to meet Kathryn (my close friend from high school has been living in Sweden for the past four years) for lunch, so I had to leave before any of the food came. I got lucky tonight though, when a friend from USC and his girlfriend who is a current student at LBS, Courtney, wanted to grab dinner with me. Courtney started out our conversation about where to eat by informing me that she eats vegetarian on Tuesdays. PERFECT! Though Marc and I didn't stick to her vegetarian ways, Indian was a great option to please the whole group.

They have been living in London for over a year, so knew exactly where to take me. We met at the tube station at Liverpool Street and headed to Brick Lane to take our pick of the "greatest Indian food in all of London." I only put the quotes there because every restaurant swore they were the greatest. We were immediately greeted by an Indian man once we had only stepped 1 foot onto Brick Lane promising us that his restaurant was the best - and to make it better he would give us 30% the entire meal. We considered the offer for a moment when he jumped the offer up to a free round of drinks. Marc hesitated still and it went up to 2 rounds of drinks, free popodam, and 30% off. Since Marc and Courtney had done this before, I followed their lead in turning down the offer to move on down the street to see who else would try to haggle with us over the price of our dinner.

Brick Lane

We settled on the third restaurant solicitor who stood in front of a restaurant that proudly proclaimed it was the BEST INDIAN ON BRICK LANE. We enjoyed a 25% discount and two free rounds of drinks for a LOT of delicious Indian food for the low price of just 13 pounds each! If this is what eating Indian is going to be like in London, I think I am going to like it here!