Jashan Indian Restaurant

A local find that is of great quality. Great curries. My favourite is butter chicken with a peshwari naan. Good Kingfisher beer and also a great mixed grill. Always busy so advise to book but really friendly staff too. Love it!

This is the best Indian food I’ve ever had, and I’m including food actually eaten in India in that! It’s the kind of Indian meal where you walk out actually feeling satisfied but not greasy and over stuffed. The tandoori chicken is amazing and they do this carrot cooked in milk as a sweet pudding which I think about most days…

This place is amazing. The food is very good. The service is extremely good. If you are looking for fine Indian food look no further, you will not find better in north London. (Dare I say London)
The staff genuinely care about the food and the service they provide. If I have a minor criticism and this is very minor maybe a small refurbishment to compliment the great food.

I moved to Turnpike Lane over 15 years ago and the Jashan Indian Restaurant has to be one of the main reasons i stay.
The staff are polite and helpful so i often just ask them to select the dishes for me. My all time favourite has to be the lamb chops with ginger — amazing!

Jashan doesn’t do delivery. However, there’s no better way to start the evening than popping in ordering from their always excellent and interesting menu, specials are worth a look, then going over the Road to the Tollgate for a pint of their well kept real ale while the chef’s work their magic. The Biriyani and Beer deals on sunday lunch are worth a look too!

I know it seems improbable, if not impossible. But far outside Zone 1, on Turnpike Lane (Piccadilly Line), is home to the best Indian food I’ve ever eaten. In any city. Anywhere.
Jashan Indian Restaurant offers what the others do not: an inventive, authentic menu that’s entirely different, and entirely better, than the standard curry house. With a fine, subdued atmosphere, incredibly gracious service, and simply incredible flavors, Jashan will change the way you think and feel about Indian cuisine.
I ache for the day Jashan and I will be reunited.

Jashan manages that rare feat, presenting superb Indian food flawlessly and with respect for it’s origin and flavours. That it’s not pricey either is a double bonus.
We went as a group so ordered multiple dishes. Unlike the dodgy ‘tandoori raj’ places I rail against, Jashan’s whole ethos is summed up by their mission statement to «bring you a festival of food, all through the year». The food on offer spans India’s unique culinary heritage, from the mild almost ‘Persian’ dishes of the North like Machli Chutneywali (marinated fish — mint, ginger, garlic, a dash of yoghurt and coriander — cooked on charcoal) to the fiery Murg Tikka Hara Masala (a dish from Lucknow involving chicken cooked in a ‘green masala’ of coriander, mint, ginger, crushed peppercorns — lots of them! — green chillies, fennel seeds, garlic, whole cloves and cinammon) via Goan dishes full of red chilli fire. .. and soured tamarind and coconut and banana infused show-​stoppers from Kerala and beyond.
I’ll spare you the exhaustive list of what we ate — it was very good, that is all you need to know.
Those who know my stern reviews of Indian restaurants will appreciate that when I rate a place as authentic, I mean it and that is because it is. There is no spurious nonsense here as verbanonfacta’s review below makes clear.
Jashan is a delight — book to avoid disappointment, it’s always packed and deservedly so.

Continuing the tradition of little-​known but excellent restaurants on Turnpike Lane is Jashan.
It’s Indian Food, but not as you know it — the generic curry house staples of chicken, lamb or prawn bhuna/​tikkamasala/​dhansak/​madras/​vindaloo/​rogan are scarcely evident, replaced with a stunning array of lesser known (to me) delicacies. Mali Makka Tikka, anyone? Lamb Adraaki?
The menu has photos to help you choose — although I am usually suspicious of places with photos of food in the menu, Jashan’s menu is all rather nicely presented, and the pictures help give you an idea of the various dishes.
Prices are about the same as you’d pay for an Indian in a reasonable central London curry house — not as cheap as many of the places up North Landan, but not Cinnamon Club or Moti Mahal either. And the food is really excellent.
It looks like nothing much from the outside, but peer in through the window and you will see that a.) the interior is nicely done up, and b.) it’s usually full.
I am informed that Jashan means Celebration in Hindi, and for those of us who dare to step beyond Chicken Tikka Masala when ordering a curry, Jashan will give you something to celebrate.