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As regular Arbuturian readers will know, there is little that I enjoy more than a visit to a top-class Indian restaurant. Some of my recent visits have, admittedly, veered towards the disappointing, but at their best, the delights and opportunities offered by this kind of cuisine ranks amongst London's finest. Yet occasionally I find myself feeling slightly overwhelmed by places that are almost in love with their own cleverness. What I want, sometimes, is not frippery and pretension; instead, I want to go somewhere in central London that does good, interesting and traditional food, at fair prices, and does it very well indeed. Enter Paro, a new arrival in Covent Garden that will not only be ideally placed for theatreland (it's next door to the Lyceum, perpetual home of The Lion King) but will attract custom from far and wide once word gets out about its high quality. Its chef Niaz Caan- a mere stripling of 23, although you wouldn't know it from the confident sophisticati
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Summer may be on its way out, but there's plenty of new openings to keep the September blues away, including a new Forza Wine at the National Theatre and a Calcutta-inspired restaurant from a 23-year-old prodigy.