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Why not complete your visit with a meal at the delightful Shayona restaurant?
With traditional Indian décor and mouth-watering vegetarian cuisine, it is the perfect way to experience some authentic tastes of India.
With its entrance opening into the Mandir car park, the Shayona Restaurant is a contemporary and authentic Indian vegetarian restaurant offering a delightful range of cuisine faithful to the best culinary traditions of the Indian subcontinent.
The warm hospitality of its staff combined with the unique décor of the restaurant ensures a memorable and enjoyable dining experience for all guests.
En route to the Restaurant is a delicatessen offering a selection of fine Indian sweets and snacks, while the adjoining shop also offers a wide range of Indian groceries and produce.
Top 5 Vegetarian Indian Restaurants in London
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RasaDas Sreedharan is a one- man food ambassador for the south Indian state of Kerala, but of his several excellent restaurants in London, only the original Rasa in N16 is pure vegetarian.
Here you can discover a whole new world of vegetarian delights like avial (vegetables steamed in turmeric water with coconut and chili), moru kachiathu (mango and green banana in spiced yoghurt) and rasa vangi (aubergines with curry leaves), all with tempting lists of familiar and exotic ingredients for less than £4 a dish.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Indian VegIn a simple, no-fuss caff in North London you can get an all you can eat meal for £7.95.
Main dishes, between £ 5- £8, include Mumbai favorites like pav bhaji (a spicy veg curry with toasted buns), and several typically Indian versions of vegetarian Chinese dishes.
The menu has authentically spiced Indian vegetarian fare like South Indian dosas and Punjabi channa masala (spiced chick peas), with a few unusual additions such as a 1/4 pounder veggie burger with fries and a paneer sizzler of tandoori roasted cottage cheese served with peppers on a sizzler dish, and a shayona curry made with curried soya mince.
Shayona, Willesden
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Just across the road from Neasden's spectacular Swaminarayan Temple sits Shayona, a contemporary, Indian restaurant serving sattvic* vegetarian cuisine from across the whole of India.
Vegetarian food continues to grow in popularity for so many reasons, yet vegetarian restaurants remain few and far between.
Such foods include vegetables, fruits, grains, pulses, nuts, most dairy (milk, butter, cream, cheese, yoghurt, ghee), mild herbs and spices, and sometimes raw honey and sugar.
Rajasic foods are not exactly harmful, but can provoke mental restlessness and aggression, and include coffee, tea and other caffeinated drinks, hot spices and chocolate.
Tamasic foods are harmful, leading to a duller, less refined state of consciousness and negative emotions such as lust and anger.
Shayona, Neasden, London, restaurant review - Telegraph
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In all my years of reviewing, I can think of very few outings I enjoyed as much, though the restaurant must divvy up the credit for that with the Mandir temple itself.
I spent only one hour there, having a crash course in Hindu theology (there are 33,000 gods) from Paku, his wife, Shobhna, and their daughter Salina, when an entire day would hardly scratch the surface of its beauty and fascination.
The pick of the starters was sev dahi puri – an octet of little round bread balls filled with chickpea and potato, topped with strands of fried ground flour and spicy yogurt; one of those dishes that detonates explosions of different flavours.
Soya mince curry was a little indistinct, “but it’s what all the youngsters at the temple want these days,” explained Paku.
Smokey aubergine, a vegetable the high-street tandoori house tends to squidgify to perdition, were pleasingly firm, and came in a delicate masala sauce.
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Shayona Restaurant - Indian Restaurant - visitlondon.com
Shayona is a contemporary and authentic Indian vegetarian restaurant in the grounds of the BAPS Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden.
The menu traverses the Indian sub-continent from the thalis of Gujarat and Rajasthan, the rich curries of North India and the Punjab to the street side chaats of Mumbai and the delectable dosas of South India.
The delicious sattvic vegetarian cuisine is consistent with the tenets of Vaishnav, Jain and Swaminarayan dietary requirements.