Before visiting the new restaurant Kachori, I don't think I had ever consciously been to Elephant and Castle. This wasn't out of snobbishness so much as not having any pressing need to visit this particular part of SE1; what little I knew of it suggested hulking and monolithic chunks of concrete, interspersed with the kinds of pubs where grim-faced old men drink strong lager and keep angry dogs on long leads. It did not seem an obvious place for me. Well, how things change. Elephant and Castle has now been semi-gentrified, and you can drink expensive craft beer and eat street food in the Mercato Metropolitano development, or alternatively, if you're slightly more advanced in years, wander over to the rather lovely Elephant Park development, where there's a plethora of new bars and restaurants in this former wasteland. And chief amongst them is Kachori, the much-hyped new Indian restaurant from Brinder Narula, who used to head up the kitchen at the Michelin-starred G
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