When Halli, one of Leicester’s most highly rated curry houses, opened a sister restaurant in Nottingham in October 2007, the locals immediately embraced the spicy offering of authentic south Indian seafood. On a prime site in fashionable Hockley, Kayal creates the distinctive culinary flavours of Kerala with dishes ranging from kozhuva (anchovies deep-fried in Kuttanad-style spice mixture) to moru curry (a popular dish featuring sweet mangos & green bananas cooked in yoghurt with green chillis, ginger & fresh curry leaves). With a superb veggie selection, including thali-style set meals for less than £10, you can’t go wrong in terms of choice & value. Housed in a pine-dominated dining room with steel lanterns hanging from the ceiling, this is surely the nearest you’ll get to a Keralan beachside shack in deepest Nottingham.