Indian Veg Bhelpoori House

I love Indian Veg Bhelpoori House. The staff are always helpful and polite. The menu although predictable and seasonally unchanging is always delicious and of course vegetarian. The onion bhajis are the absolute best! And best of all… The factually questionable vegan and vegetarian propaganda that is smeared across the walls is so entertaining that if you’re alone or with a particularly tedious friend you’ll never be bored.

Great value for money. Became vege recently so my girlfriend and I were on the hunt for somewhere good. Luckily we found this place. Insides a bit shabby but don’t be put off because the food is great. Looking forward to going back,

I like to drop in here for lunch from time to time. It’s a £6.50 Indian veg buffet. The dishes are always the same. It won’t wow you foodwise but it’s reliable and tasty enough. They have some finely chopped salads, a variety of curries (although a lot based on peas and potatoes) and some crispy onion rings and mini bhajis to put on top.
Walls are plastered with vegetarian propaganda and the virtues of a vegetarian diet.
They have a variety of fruit juices (cans and bottles) and also fruit lassis to order.
Don’t come here if you want an overpriced concept eatery with a scene and hip design and like to queue up round the block for the privilege. You won’t like it.
Do come here if you like down to earth quirky places that are unique, good value and want to eat straight away.

When you’re paying a fiver to eat as much as you like, you’ve got a bloody cheek to complain about the quality of the food. What does £5 of endless food look and taste like to you? It’s huge silver vats of curry and rice that sits under a heat lamp for hours at a time.
To be honest, if I’m on my way out in this area, then Bhelpoori House is usually where I go for dinner beforehand. It’s vegetarian/​vegan food and, for what you get, it’s really good value for money. Not the best Indian food I’ve ever tasted, but I wouldn’t expect it to be. They have a few good veg curries, and a choice of rices, with options of sides and salads, as well as Indian breads and poppadoms. Go up as many times as you like, and bring your own booze too.
The atmosphere here is very free, and the counter staff are friendly. You help yourself, so no need to flag down a waiter, and if you get bored during your meal then you can read any of the countless propaganda posters plastered over the walls.
A little rough around the edges, but does the job if you need feeding. Get stuck in!

Who on earth is giving this place stars? Seriously, I think we should all meet up and have a discussion. I’ve been here 3 times, and only because each time I’ve tried so hard to forget it, I did! «Vegetarians Paradise», only if you are a veggie into S&M.
I’ve lived in India, and I’ve visited here with Indians, and I’ve visited here with vegetarians. And none of us would rate the food highly. It suffers from the same problems that can plague low-​cost ‘Indian/​Bangladeshi’ curry/​poori houses: the food is just bad.
How can a culture that can serve me the most amazing veg food, enough to make me abandon meat, often at the side of a road from a cart, be so miserable in a large kitchen restaurant? Stodgy, lacking favour, chapati/​roti not fresh (often stale in the banquet, where everthing just is luke-​warm). Oh I could go on…
Please, let me do you a favour and save you from here. If, like me, you crave good Indian food then just walk to Millman Street across from the Brunswick and visit Salaam Namaste. If you need good veg food, then go elsewhere.
(You got a star because we’d a great laugh once bopping around to Salmaan Khan’s song Bhanjara)

A real original, in an increasingly pretentious London dining scene. The buffet food selection is second to none of the average Indian restaurants and take aways anywhere in London, freshly cooked bread still warm being my favourite, and the drinks selection is just the best around. Healthy fruit juices from British farms, premium and regular fizzy drinks, freshly prepared vegan mango lassi, and a plump desserts list. The décor won’t please if you’re hankering after the sterile, hospital waiting room style that seems to be in favour among the crowds these days, it’s a cross between a small family run eatery and a diner with walls completely plastered with vegan articles, trivia and dietary facts, on giant posters. I loved the ambiance and the truly diverse crowd, a real local original and a relaxed atmosphere.

I saw all the great reviews and went over there with the family. We are vegetarians. First thing for indians. This is mostly a Gujarati place. hence most of the dishes are sweet. Even vegetable raita! Kids did not like anything but tarka dal. The place was OK, while small. Ni dessert as well. Which means other than the appetier and dal there was noithing that is remotely good for taste. Even dal had too much turmeric flavor. Very disappointed. made kids walk a mile for this place.

coolest place

Indian Veg is an institution. Sadly it’s no longer £2.50 per person as it was when I first went, but for £6 it’s still great value for as much tasty curries, salads, rice and breads as you can manage.
Big fan of the pitta-​style breads and mango coleslaw.
You can bring your own alcohol or choose from their huge range of soft drinks.
NB it’s cash only.

you definitely get more than what you pay for… nice and cheap and the food is great… iv been to this place a number of times now and will continue to go… even tho this place is a veggie restaurant it still pleases meat lovers… who knows, maybe it can turn you to a vegetarian… :) anyway i highly recommend to check it out if your looking for good food at a cheap price…

I’ve been going to this place since I was a poor little student, with little more than a few pennies to rub together. It was £2.95 back then for all you could. Yes, £2.95! 15 years later, it’s soared to a heady £5.95, but c’mon guys, that ain’t bad for all you can stuff in your fat face, is it. And it’s damn tasty. And it’s entirely vegetarian. So all in all, this herbivore is pretty bloody happy. Don’t forget to try the salads, especially the yellow fella — it’s not all about the curry, you know. And treat yourself to a delicious lassi. And if your date doesn’t offer quite the scintillating conversation you’d hoped for, the walls are absolutely plastered with vegetarian propaganda to keep you entertained through your meal. Woohoo, have your £5.95 (cash only, please) at the ready!

This place is fantastic! Of course there were many vegetarian options, but I was most blown away by the number of vegetable options. My plate looked like a rainbow-​purple cabbage and beets, shaved orange carrots with bright red pomegranate seeds, yellow (delicious!!) curried potatoes with cauliflower, green sauce, you get the idea. I enjoyed the curries as well, and ordered a sweet and creamy soy mango lassi. I did not miss the dairy at all!
If you’re a vegetarian or not, I would absolutely make a trip here. Good value and great food!

Yeah it’s kinda shotty-​looking from the outside, but once inside it’s kinda warm and fuzzy in a florescent light cafeteria type of way.
They have lots of inspiring messages on the walls, which give it sort of a hippy vibe. And besides, it’s 5.95 for a buffet (cash only) — which is pretty damn tasty might I add. I am not a vegetarian but I didn’t even miss the meat.
I feel like there’s a joke in there somewhere…
Yeah so anyone who has ever tried to spend less than 10 on a meal in London will understand why that’s the equivalent of finding a unicorn.

Cheap eats and great vegetarian Indian food! Walk in, get a plate, serve yourself, seat yourself, pay on the way out. Easy peasy. BYOB. It’s a little bit on the dingy side in terms of the interior and street location so I wouldn’t make it a date.

kind of a unique place
lots of vegetarian propaganda
on the walls, like even when
taking a piss, you will see veg
propaganda
quite tasty all you can eat
buffet style, nice and spicy
just the way i like it

At £5.50, this vegetarian buffet is good value. There’s a selection of salads, rice, poppadoms and unidentified fried dough things, with three different curries and dahls to choose from. The poppadoms could have been slightly crispier but that’s a minor thing. It was all quite tasty and maybe the spiced potato mash was slightly too tasty. There was a lot of potato. The curry is too greasy to have buffet-​level amounts of though. It’s bring your own drink which cuts down the costs, but there is a wide variety of non-​alcoholic drinks available to buy there too. Being honest, it’s not the food that would have me coming back here, it’s nice enough but there are other attractions…
I’m definitely no seal clubber but I am as partial to lumps of nutritious animal tissue as the next man. Indian Veg Bhelpoori House is not my usual scene but I love vegetarian food too. However here animal tissue consumption of any kind is, let’s say, frowned upon. THE WALLS SHOUT AT YOU. About lots of things. But mainly about the eating meat. Every surface is covered in incredible, bizarre signage. One particular sign (over the salad bar) extolls the benefits of drinking water. I thought the benefits of drinking water would be fairly standard but apparently it «aids body lubrication». What even is «body lubrication»? Is body lubrication just excessive sweating? Am I slipping into some kind of figure hugging amniotic sleeping bag? We will never know.
I my have misread the sign however under the extraterrestrial blue light of the most amazing light fixture I have ever seen. It is the chandelier belonging in the play dungeon of a mortician-​cum-​80s-​pimp. From the outside you would never know it was a restaurant and you wouldn’t really be any the wiser on the inside. I should really be talking about the food but the visual assault on the senses is extraordinary and a main reason I will be returning. It is a relaxing, affordable place to go, if you can find it and if you can deal with the placard-​laden interior. This place is Morrissey in the guise of an obscure subcontinental buffet restaurant.

Sorry reviewers this place now charges £5.50 gasp!!!
They also no longer serve alcohol but are cool about you bringing your own (no corkage fee)
Whats to say that hasn’t already been said in the 2 and 3 star reviews?
If you’re poor, hungry and cold, head for this place — It’s a bargain.
Be prepared for the preachy veggie propaganda that plasters the walls, as I pointed out in another review of this place the one FACT they forgot to mention is that the Indian sub-​continent has one of the highest levels of diabetes on the planet.

Don’t really understand all the good reviews for this place.
Came during off hour for a quick lunch, i swear, the place looks like it is closed down from the outside.
Anyway, the place can seat quite some people. there were 3 types of rice and 4 types of curries. tbh they all tasted blend and tasted about the same– and yellowish with tons of potato. the only more tastable one was the coconut based curry with paneer cheese, and potato. just a note, all of their dishes are heavy on potato. it was like eating a potato feast with the occasional appearance of some chick peas and cabbages. remember. potatoes.
then there’s the bhaja –fried onion dish and another fried dish, pompadom and some domed shaped crisp bread. all quite oily. heart disease here I come!
3 types of cabbage salad, and 2 onion salad. comes with 2 watered down salad sauces. oh, and some unhealthy crispy rice topping thingies. and yep, that’s all.
sure 4.95 all you can eat would def fill you up with the help of a stomach full of potatoes. but I’m just not sure about the quality and variety, and feels like I can get better curry from M&S.

I’ve been coming here on and off for 20 years. That makes feel really old but also really consistent. The food is good as ever and in the 20 years I’ve been coming the price has only increased by ONE POUND! I would go so far as to say that it’s cheaper to eat here than it is to eat at home.
There’s no alcohol on sale, but you’re welcome to bring your own.

Sure it’s £3.95 for your fill on all you can eat vegetarian Indian dishes (three hot offerings, a few salads, and some carb-​y snacks like popcorn, bombay mix and crispy fried treats) but it doesn’t stop there.
You should also prepare yourself (your eyes, specifically) for a full preachy dose of vegetarian living. It was intense. It was like paying to go to the church of no-​meat.
… but it was £3.95.
See my dilemma here?