Spice & fire

Charcoal, curry leaves and chilli: Thai grills, Sri Lankan kitchens and Bombay cafés.

9 restaurants with free tables for 2, today, around 19:30

Smoking Goat's dark wood dining room with tall windows onto the street

Smoking Goat

££

Thai bar and grill in Shoreditch

Dishoom's busy dining room under industrial lamps

Dishoom Shoreditch

££

Bombay café in Shoreditch

Kiln's long steel counter and stools facing the grills

Kiln

££

Thai grill in Soho

Hoppers' blue shopfront under a white awning on Frith Street

Hoppers

££

Sri Lankan in Soho

Kricket's horseshoe bar with tiles and copper lamps

Kricket

££

Modern Indian in Soho

Darjeeling Express' light wood room with plants along the railings

Darjeeling Express

££

Regional Indian in Soho

Gymkhana's dark wood dining room under brass lamps

Gymkhana

££££

Indian in Mayfair

Rambutan's corner front by Borough Market's iron arches

Rambutan

££

Sri Lankan in Borough Market

Ganapati's blue and orange corner shopfront in Peckham

Ganapati

£

South Indian in Peckham