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Kerala Restaurant was a South Indian restaurant near [[Oxford Circus Station|Oxford Circus]]. According to Google Street View, it closed down by July 2012.
 South Indian restaurant near Oxford Circus.
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 I tried the lunch buffet (£6.95), which was very good. Often, lunch buffets can be a bit hit and miss, but here the food was perfectly cooked, without any of the oiliness sometimes found in Indian buffets. There are always four vegetarian dishes and one non-vegetarian on the buffet: on the day I visited, there was mong dal, potato in a creamy sauce, a dry carrot dish, and a mixed vegetable curry, with kofte (meatball) curry as the non-vegetarian dish, plus rice. The five dishes covered a wide range of styles, with some dry and some with sauce, different levels of heat, and different flavours.
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South Indian restaurant near [[Oxford Circus Station|Oxford Circus]], just off [[Locale Regent Street|Regent Street]].
 All of the food was what I would categorise as mild on the heat scale. This may be due to the dishes being on a buffet.
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[[Martin]] visited on a Friday lunchtime in November 2007 and tried the lunch buffet (&pound;7), which was very good. Often, lunch buffets can be a bit hit and miss, but here the food was perfectly cooked, without any of the oiliness sometimes found in Indian buffets. There are always four vegetarian dishes and one non-vegetarian on the buffet: on the day I visited, there was mong dal, potato in a creamy sauce, a dry carrot dish, and a mixed vegetable curry, with kofte (meatball) curry as the non-vegetarian dish, plus rice. The five dishes covered a wide range of styles, with some dry and some with sauce, different levels of heat, and different flavours.
 Note that the £6.95 buffet does not include starter or dessert. There are starters and desserts available on a table to the left of the main dishes, but if you take any of them you will be charged extra. (Sorry, forgot to check exactly how much - I think it was around £2 for starters and £2 for desserts.) I didn't try these.
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All of the food was what I would categorise as mild to very mild on the heat scale. This may be due to the dishes being on a buffet, where hotter dishes would have the potential to take unwary diners by surprise.
 They added 12.5% service to the bill even though it was a buffet, so the full price for lunch was £7.80.
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Note that the &pound;7 buffet does not include starter or dessert. There are starters and desserts available on a table to the left of the main dishes, but if you take any of them you will be charged extra. (Sorry, forgot to check exactly how much - I think it was around &pound;2 for starters and &pound;2 for desserts.) I didn't try these.

They added 12.5% service to the bill even though it was a buffet, so the full price for lunch was &pound;7.80.

See also:
* [http://www.doshermanos.co.uk/2008/09/kerala-southern-indian-central-london.html Dos Hermanos review]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20110517225547/http://www.curryhouse-reviews.co.uk/kerala.htm Malcolm Wilkins' review]
* [https://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/kerala-restaurant-london Yelp comments]

<div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Martin]], November 2007.</div>
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address='15 Great Castle Street, W1W 8LT'
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 <div class="last_verified">Last visited by [[Martin]] on 2007-11-23.</div>
address='15 Great Castle Street'
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summary='South Indian restaurant near Oxford Circus.' summary='Now closed; was a South Indian restaurant near Oxford Circus.'		 postcode='W1W 8LT'
summary='South Indian restaurant near Oxford Circus.' summary='Now closed; was a South Indian restaurant near Oxford Circus.'

South Indian restaurant near Oxford Circus.

I tried the lunch buffet (£6.95), which was very good. Often, lunch buffets can be a bit hit and miss, but here the food was perfectly cooked, without any of the oiliness sometimes found in Indian buffets. There are always four vegetarian dishes and one non-vegetarian on the buffet: on the day I visited, there was mong dal, potato in a creamy sauce, a dry carrot dish, and a mixed vegetable curry, with kofte (meatball) curry as the non-vegetarian dish, plus rice. The five dishes covered a wide range of styles, with some dry and some with sauce, different levels of heat, and different flavours.

All of the food was what I would categorise as mild on the heat scale. This may be due to the dishes being on a buffet.

Note that the £6.95 buffet does not include starter or dessert. There are starters and desserts available on a table to the left of the main dishes, but if you take any of them you will be charged extra. (Sorry, forgot to check exactly how much - I think it was around £2 for starters and £2 for desserts.) I didn't try these.

They added 12.5% service to the bill even though it was a buffet, so the full price for lunch was £7.80.

Last visited by Martin on 2007-11-23.

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