One The Avenue

This has to be the most cleverly disguised restaurant ever. It’s right next to Higham’s Park station, opposite a really, really, good Indian (Purbani) that I have been going to for years. But we never went to One The Avenue because we had no idea it was an Indian. The name itself gives no clue, and from the outside it looks like a fancy Italian joint, and the menu (in the glass case in the wall) is so faded from the sun that you can’t read it (I had a word with the manager, this may be fixed soon).
We’ve glanced in before and seen it gets very crowded at the weekend. We went at 7 on a week night, were the first ones there, but it was about half full when we left.
Inside is beautiful. Exquisitely clean, soothing, modern, feels like a fancy high end restaurant, with nary a clue that it’s Indian food. Service from start to finish was perfection (and the free liqueur at the end didn’t hurt). Mostly your standard Indian fare, but with a few unusual sounding items. Fairly normal prices; most entrees in the £5 to £8 range, with some duck dishes around £10. Decent sized pilau rice for £2, fantastic naan for £2.
Everything we had was excellent. Extremely well prepared, beautifully presented, good sized portions.
If they impress us as much next time this will probably become our new go to Indian in East London. Assuming we can still get in now that I’ve blown their cover on Unilocal