Best restaurants in London’s theatres

It’s not all fishcakes and ice cream in theatres, although. Paro (21 Wellington Avenue, WC2E, paroindian.com), a 120-cover restaurant and 30-cover bar, opened on the Lyceum Theatre in October. The enterprise is the brainchild of 23-year-old chef Niaz Caan, who has been cooking at his household’s Brick Lane restaurant Metropolis Spice since he was 14 and has introduced a menu of up to date curry home classics — lamb samosa, butter rooster — to Theatreland. “I prepare dinner curries ‘handi’ model — handi is what you name a big inventory pot in Hindi,” Niaz says. “I don’t supply 50 curries on my menu, solely 15, however every of those is began within the morning, after which slow-roasted all through the day. That is how curries are cooked at residence in India and results in richer, far tastier curries. Sluggish-cooked curries are additionally faster to serve, which is an additional advantage for pre-theatre purchasers.”