Eating Out and About in London for the 2007 WSOP Europe

The view from our Indian food at the Kerala Restaurant in London during the 2007 WSOP Europe. (Bodog Beat Image)

While Indian food may not seem like the most traditional of English food, a curry is the most ordered dish in the UK at the moment. Now, we've had some good curries in our time and feel like you can get your normal run-of-the-mill stereotypical Indian food pretty much anywhere. So, with that in mind we wanted to delve a little deeper into the cuisine while in this haven of Indian food and get something a little more regionally specific.

We found just the place around the corner from the Sanderson Hotel. The Kerala Restaurant is named after the southern coastal region of India from where it derives its menu. There was definitely a different feel to the dishes, a lot of coconut and fruit chutneys.

We eventually settled on "masala kadalakka," chickpeas cooked in a thick masala sauce with a mouth-watering list of spices, some basmati rice and a kind of unleavened fried bread (not naan bread, we're well acquainted with this). Of course, we ordered Indian beer to go along with our meal (this served as the foundation for what became our spectacular hangover this morning). "Spicy" would be a good word to describe our meal, "nuclear" would be better. However, the beer, rice and raita, a yogurt sauce, helped to cool our burning mouths.

Overall, the experience was great and the food delicious. Dessert was out of the question as the rice started to expand in our stomachs making us look like we were about to give birth to little Indian food babies.

We still feel the need to go find some stereotypical "Britindian" food, but we definitely got an experience that, outside of the actual region of Kerala, is uniquely London.

Stay tuned for more coverage of the 2007 WSOP Europe live from London.