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Offering delivery, take-away and a time-warp eat-in option, this has been tipped as the “cheapest, good quality and well portioned Indian on the street,” by long-time Drummond business owner, Harish from the Indian Spice Shop.
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As a hotbed of Indian dining, Drummond Street is still a magnet for curryholics and anyone else seeking a good, cheap meal.
Fortunately, the prices are also well out of date - visit on a Monday for the daily special consisting of cashew-nut pilau rice and cauliflower curry served with a small salad and a little bowl of mint yoghurt chutney for the princely sum of £3.50.
On Tuesday, there's vegetable biryani with curry (£3.95); on Wednesday, aloo palak with chapatti (£3.50); and the specials wind onwards to the extravagance on Saturday of chana batura (£4.25) - a delicious fried bread with a chickpea curry.
The Ravi Shankar may look plain, and the seating may not be ultra-comfortable - but the food is very honest and very cheap, which is something that weighs heavily with a loyal clientele who make it a busy place even while the waiters in the more orthodox (and more expensive) curry house on the other side of Drummond Street are kicking their heels.
Ravi Shankar Drummond Street, London, NW1 2HL