I got just a bit carried away looking up different vegetables at Pataks. They fascinate me.
Lunch at Diwana
My favorite parts of the vegetarian lunch are the salads
The first time we ate at Disana I walked past the Indian vegetables and did not take a picture. This time the trip for vegetarian Indian food was motivated by my desire to take pictures of the produce at Pataks. It had not taken me long to discover that Pataks was a very unique shop.
The London writer Geoffrey Fletcher visited and sketched the Drummond Street shop in 1968, some years before Pataks outgrew its humble origins (and sadly the more elaborate stone facade that once crowned the shop window.)
Today, Patak’s is no longer based in London – they moved out to Lancashire, where they operate the largest Indian food factory in the world – but Drummond Street is still full of the Indian restaurants which came in Patak’s wake.
Every third shopfront seems to be occupied by an Indian restaurant – the Diwana (a veteran vegetarian institution, full with locals on the night I ate there), the Ravi Shankar (opened in 1982, according to its advertising board), The Massala Hut, the Shah, Sizzling Bombay, Drummond Villa Tandoori, Chutneys…a staggering number of Indian food-sellers in such an otherwise short and easily missed street.
Ivory gourds used in making curries sabjis, juices and as an accompaniment to main courses
A wide variety of sizes in eggplant
Indian Karela
I love this site. It has photographs and the names of various mysterious fruits and vegetables.
Another wonderful site with pictures and the Indian and English names of produce
No English names but excellent reference page
DRUMMOND STREET UNDER THREAT | London Food Chronicles
www.londonfoodchronicles.co.uk/2012/12/drummond-street-under-threat/
31 Dec 2012 - For decades Drummond Street and its Indian restaurants and food shops has remained unchanged. It was with real shock, ... I heard that Diwana Bhel Puri and Patak, they were the beginning of this street. These restaurants ..
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