1/14 A mostly lighthearted history of trends in London’s Indian restaurant names.
London’s Indian restaurants started springing up in earnest a century after the Hindoostane Coffee House of 1810, so that’s where I’ll start.
A thread.
2/ The earliest Indian restaurants of 1920s were what we would now call 'pop-ups', one of which was called Curry House. Perhaps the name stuck and it’s the reason why South Asian restaurants went on to be called curry houses? Who knows.
3/ The first restaurants in the early 20th century had mostly Anglo-Indian names like... literally, Anglo India (there was also an Anglo Pakistan after the partition).