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Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot | Recommended by HYHOI.com: Have You Heard Of It? | A curation of design-led hotspots around the world, tried and tasted
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Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot

By Nina @WrittenByFitton · On February 5, 2016

A home-style Indian kitchen just down the road from Spitalfields, Gunpowder is minuscule in size, but makes up for the lack of square footage in memorable flavours and spicy kicks – my Prosecco cocktail, with a fresh green chilli slice floating on the surface, certainly packed a punch!

Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot | Recommended by HYHOI.com: Have You Heard Of It? | A curation of design-led hotspots around the world, tried and tasted
Named “Gunpowder” after the Indian spice, it’s a happy coincidence that the site of the restaurant actually used to be a gunpowder store back in the day – and keeping with the ammo theme, the restaurant can be accessed from Liverpool Street Station via Artillery Lane.

Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot | Recommended by HYHOI.com: Have You Heard Of It? | A curation of design-led hotspots around the world, tried and tasted
We ate venison doughnuts, Kashmiri lamb chops (“just the way Maa used to make them”), okra fries and an entire grilled broccoli.  There’s a whiff of Dishoom about the menu (both crispy calamari and chilli cheese toast are present and correct), but I am excited to report that Gunpowder nails it all – exceptional food, memorable drinks and fantastic staff mean this buzzing little spot is a real find.

Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot | Recommended by HYHOI.com: Have You Heard Of It? | A curation of design-led hotspots around the world, tried and tasted
Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot | Recommended by HYHOI.com: Have You Heard Of It? | A curation of design-led hotspots around the world, tried and tasted
Despite being totally satiated after a plethora of sharing plates, Harneet the owner insisted we had pudding: “Everyone knows dessert has a separate tummy!” he encouraged.  Turns out he was right – our Old Monk Rum Pudding didn’t last long (“The rum?  Some of it we smuggle.  Some of it we buy legally.”)

Gunpowder: Home-style Indian cooking at this small-but-mighty Spitalfields spot | Recommended by HYHOI.com: Have You Heard Of It? | A curation of design-led hotspots around the world, tried and tasted
Meal for two with drinks around £60.  To book, email reservation@gunpowderlondon.com
Photos by Laurie Fletcher.

Gunpowder
www.gunpowderlondon.com
11 White’s Row, Spitalfields, E1 7NF
Instagram @gunpowder_london

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