Roti Chai Street Kitchen

I had received a recommendation to go here so I went looking for Roti Chai on one of the busy shopping days in the run up to Christmas. Despite its incredibly convenient location, the restaurant feels sufficiently tucked away to allow you to escape the chaos and bustle of Oxford Street.
The staff were charming and knowledgable and we decided to simply follow the recommendations of our waiter as many of the dishes were unknown to us. This proved to be absolutely the right decision as we were brought a wide selection of dishes, all very different and all delicious, and many with flavours I don't think I have ever tasted before.
The restaurant also looks incredible with a style that makes me think of an Indian version of the Mexican Wahaca.
I would heartily recommend that visitors to Oxford Street resist the lure of the familiar chain restaurants in the area to go to Roti Chai where a ‘pot luck’ approach to the menu will be a refreshing and extremely tasty experience.

My sister had read that Roti Chai Street Kitchen had some good reviews and so given it was Boxing Day, and we were hitting the sales, we picked this place for some hot lunch (i was also armed with a bad cold and was in need of some decent spice!)

Foodwise – everything was very good – the paneer was probably the best ive ever tasted – mainly because you tend to find paneer is often covered in a gloopy sauce in most indian restaurants, whereas this was deliciously spiced, but hot enough to make my nose stream (weirdly, just what i needed!). I also decided to have chicken samosas, which were good, and fresh – still samosas but something i will have again. We then ordered the lamb curry, which was very mild but tasty – together with the lamb burger. The burger was spiced well, and accompanied by the softest bread bun ever! Even me who was trying to do ‘no carbs’, found myself scoffing some of this!

The meal came to £30 for 2 but we were nicely full. I agree with one of the other reviewers in that portions arent huge – but then id say if you are coming to the kitchen portion, youd be more likely to be wanting to have several small dishes and dip into each – and not roll out. My suggestion to the venue is maybe increase the menu as i think ill end up having the same things over and over again

The only comparable indian cafe place i think there is is Dishoom, in Covent Garden, which is always busy – however i think this is due to location and the food is hit and miss too. This place might find it hard as its tucked away behind M&S Oxford St, but certainly will be somewhere i return to after a hard few hours shopping!

The food at Roti Chai is good, and very flavoursome, but the portions are sooooo SMALL!!! For the price anyway… £5.20n for a tiny amount of paneer with mostly salad is very expensive. We ordered a meal each but when the portions were brought out we had to order more as there wasn't enough to go around.

Can't really fault the taste of the food, I enjoyed everything. the chai was nice but just warm, not hot enough for my liking. The bun kebab was very tasty but again, very small! £7.50 for a mini burger is not good value in my opinion.

The puddings are extortionate at £6.50 for a small chocolate tart. I ate in Langan's last week and paid £4.75 for a similar dish – and that's a posh restaurant.

I've heard similar reviews about Roti Chai. It seems to be a bit of a tourist fad at the moment which everyone is trying out. But if they want to succeed they need to offer better value for money.

Service was passable, nothing special. And they added a 12.5% service charge onto the bill! We left feeling quite unsatisfied really…

I visited this restaurant yesterday with two other colleagues and was amazed at the quality and freshness of the food. We tried over ten dishes and every single one was delicious. This restaurant is apparently very new and has an original concept, and I can see this being very popular indeed. Will definitely be returning soon.

On the whole the food and service are very good. Flavours and spiceing great but why are they still charging for bread (which tast great). why not a cover charge instead?

We recently dined at Roti Chai on à Thursday night around 8pm and i have to say it was almost packed. We ordered Mongoose beer which was a refreshing change to Kingfisher and Tiger and mango juice which came in a 200ml “Frooti” carton. To eat we had papri chaat, Chilli paneer, dokla, raita which between the two of us was the right amount for a light evening snack. Papri chaat was some of the best I've had in london not to mention doesn't feature on the average Asian menu, the paneer was simple and fresh whilst the dokla was not overly dry. The food came out relatively quickly. I would be keen to try some of the meat dishes on my next trip. Overall, good for a quick meal after a spot of shopping or drinking around Oxford street.