Veeraswamy

Veeraswamy opened on Regent Street in 1926 and reaches its centenary in 2026 as the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in the country. It sits on the mezzanine floor of Victory House, reached by a private lift from an entrance on Swallow Street, and keeps company with Wilton's and Rules among London's longest-running dining rooms. The kitchen draws on Hyderabadi and Mughal court cooking, and the restaurant holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide.

The dining rooms are a study in colour. The Regency Room runs along tall windows over Regent Street, its walls hung with framed miniatures and maharajah-era dress, with a cocktail bar at one end. Behind it the Verandah Room looks onto Swallow Street beneath banana-leaf foliage and hand-blown coloured lanterns, the lightest and most planted of the spaces. The Paisley Room keeps the crushed velvet and deep carpet of the restaurant's 1920s heyday, when it drew royalty and the touring famous.

For private events the dedicated Private Dining Room seats up to 22 beneath crystal chandeliers, on one long table of sixteen or two tables, with candlelight and a wall of Indian portraiture. Smaller parties take the Paisley Room, and the whole restaurant can be taken exclusively for around eighty seated. Dinner runs Monday to Saturday with lunch daily, and an events team handles private bookings.