Sagar Covent Garden is a South Indian vegetarian restaurant at 31 Catherine Street, close to the theatres and bustle of the West End. The group has championed traditional cooking since 2001, preparing fresh vegan and vegetarian dishes with rice, lentils, vegetables, coconut and carefully balanced spices.
Starters include soft steamed idli, crisp medu vada, samosa, onion bhajia and potato bonda, with coconut chutney and sambar adding fragrance and warmth. Rasam offers a tangy spiced soup, while papadams, yoghurt, raita and lentil dal provide small additions that can be combined into a varied opening course.
Dosa is made from fermented rice and lentil batter and cooked into a thin crisp crepe, served plain or filled with seasoned potato. Onion, rava, paper and house special versions broaden the choice, while thicker uthappam can be topped with onion, tomato, coconut or cheese and arrives with sambar and coconut chutney.
South Indian, Rajdani and vegan thalis gather curries, lentils, vegetables, rice, bread, pickles and dessert onto one generous platter. Channa masala, vegetable kurma, aubergine, paneer and potato dishes show the menu’s regional range, with clearly marked vegan choices and a separate selection prepared without onion or garlic.
Address: 31 Catherine Street, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5JS, United Kingdom
Sagar Menu
Starters
Idli
Gently steamed rice dumplings served with sambar & coconut chutney.
Idli Vada
Gently steamed rice dumplings & fried lentil doughnuts served with sambar & coconut chutney.
Kancheepuram Idli
Steamed rice & lentil cakes seasoned with spices served with sambar & coconut chutney.
Medu Vada
Fried lentil doughnuts, soft in the middle and crispy on the outside served with sambar & coconut chutney.
Rasa Vada
Soft lentil doughnuts soaked in warm tangy rasam.
Special Upma
Cream of wheat cooked with delicate spice, fresh tomato, peas and rich cashew nuts.
Potato Bonda
Seasoned potatoes and mild spice fried in a gram flour batter.
Mixed Vegetable Balls
Mixed vegetables and potatoes tenderly mixed, served with salad and coconut chutney.
Dal Vada
Two crispy snacks made of black gram lentils served with pickle & chutney.
Onion Pakoda
Chopped onions dipped in light batter of gram flour, rice coriander seeds and fried to give them extra munch.
Chili Paneer
Cottage cheese stir fried with capsicum, chillies, onion, garlic & tossed in soya sauce.
Ghobi Manchurian
Cauliflower florets battered & fried then tossed in a tangy Indo-Chinese sauce.
Vegetable Hakka Noodles
Stir fried noodles with mixed vegetables in Indo-Chinese style sauce.
Pappadam
Crispy lentil wafers served with pickle & chutney.
Soups
Rasam
Traditional South Indian spicy soup.
Mulligatawny Soup
Lentil broth.
Bombay Chowpati Special
Bhel Puri
Crispy poori served with tender potatoes, onions and puffed rice, sev mixed with sour & garlic chutney.
Pav Bhaji
Mashed vegetables cooked with spices served with buttered bread rolls.
Sev Puri
Crispy poori prepared with onions, tamarind, coriander, garlic chutney and yoghurt garnished with sev.
Dahi Potato Puri
Small crispy poori stuffed with potatoes, sweet & sour spicy chutney and yoghurt.
Aloo Papadi Chat
Crispy poori served with potatoes, sour & spicy chutney and yogurt.
Pani Puri
Small crispy poori served with chickpeas, sour & spicy consomme.
Dahi Vada
Lentil doughnuts soaked in cold homemade yoghurt.
Samosa
Served with tomato ketchup and sweet chutney.
Vegetable Cutlet
Served with tomato ketchup.
Main Menu – Dosa
All dosas served with sambar & coconut chutney.
Plain Dosa
Rice and lentil pancake.
Masala Dosa
Rice & lentil golden pancake filled with potato, onions & carrot.
Mysore Masala Dosa
Very famous rice and lentil spicy pancake, with red coconut chutney filled with potato, onions & carrot.
Rava Dosa
Cream of wheat & rice pancake.
Rava Masala Dosa
Cream of wheat & rice pancake filled with potato & carrot.
Onion Rava Dosa
Cream of wheat & rice crispy pancake with sautéed onions.
Onion Rava Masala Dosa
Cream of wheat & rice pancake filled with potato, onions & carrot.
Paneer Masala Dosa
Rice & lentil pancake filled with homemade cottage cheese, potato, onion, carrot and capsicum (red & green) with mild spices.
Cheese Dosa
Rice and lentil pancake with cheese.
Sagar Special Dosa
Rice and lentil pancake filled with onions, tomatoes, coriander and smashed mixed vegetables cooked in tomato sauce and spices.
Paper Masala Dosa
Crispy rice and lentil pancake served with homemade cottage cheese, potato, onion, carrot and capsicum (red & green) filling on the side with mild spices.
Paper Plain Dosa
Crispy rice and lentil pancake served with potato, onions & carrot filling on the side.
Main Menu – Curries & Vegetable Dishes
Saag Aloo
A delicious curry with spinach, potato, with home blended south Indian spices.
Saag Paneer
Lightly spiced fresh spinach cooked with fresh homemade cottage cheese.
Bhajee
Smash mixed vegetables cooked in tomato sauce and spices.
Bhindi Bhajee
Fresh okra cooked in fresh tomato with home-blended South Indian spices.
Brinjal Bhajee
Fresh aubergine cooked in fresh tomato and capsicum (red & green) with home-blended South Indian spices.
Vegetable Kootu
Fresh vegetable cooked in coconut, cashew nuts and cream with homemade South Indian spices.
Potato Palya
Potatoes cooked with home-blended South Indian spices.
Sambar
Fresh vegetable cooked in fresh coconut and lentil with homemade South Indian spice.
Thalis
South Indian Thali
Special platter with pappadam, channa masala, brinjal bhajee, vegetable kurma, sambar, potato palya, suki bhajee, lemon rice, paratha and dessert.
Homemade Fresh Bread
Puri
Two pieces of deep fried puffy dough.
Bhatura
Large fluffy fried bread.
Aloo Paratha
One piece of leavened bread filled with spiced potato.
Paratha
One piece of delicious, flaky leavened plain flour bread.
Homemade Rice Speciality
Lemon Rice
Basmati rice tossed in a deep pan with peas and fresh lemon juice served with raitha.
Garlic Rice
Basmati rice tossed in a deep pan with fresh garlic, cumin seeds, dried red chillies served with raitha.
Vegetable Pilau Rice
Basmati rice prepared with mixed vegetables and ghee.
Vegetable Biriyani
Basmati rice cooked with vegetables and homemade spices served with vegetable kurma, raitha & salad.
Boiled Rice
Basmati rice.
Curd Rice
A cooling mixture of rice, cucumber and yoghurt, served with home-made pickle.
Extras & Sides
Mini Salad
Tomato and Cucumber.
Onion & Green Chili
Special salad made with carrots, cucumber & yoghurt.
Mulaga Podi
Combination of lentils ground together with spices and served with ghee.
Pickles
Lime chutney, apple chutney, mint sauce, mango chutney.
Desserts
Gulab Jamun
Homemade condensed milk rolled into balls, deep fried and soaked in sugar syrup.
Semiya Payasam
Hot pudding made with vermicelli, sugar, milk, cashew nuts & raisins.
Rasgulla
Sponge milk pudding.
Pineapple Sheera
Golden butter crepe smothered with warm sugarcane.
Kesari Bath
Cream of wheat cooked in sugar, ghee, with raisins and nuts.
Kulfi
(Indian ice cream) mango, malai, pistachio or almond.
Soft Drinks
Orange
Orange soft drink.
Passion
Passion fruit soft drink.
Mango
Mango soft drink.