Mowgli Street Food occupies three floors at 5 Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia. The restaurant brings founder Nisha Katona’s interpretation of Indian home cooking and street food to a lively setting filled with warm lighting, greenery and the brand’s familiar swing seats. Its menu is designed for sharing, so a table can combine small plates, curries, breads and rice rather than following a formal sequence of courses.
Street plates include yoghurt chat bombs filled with chickpeas and dressed with spiced yoghurt, tamarind, coriander and pomegranate. Onion bhajis, Himalayan cheese toast, fenugreek fries and treacle tamarind fries offer contrasting crisp, savoury and sweet flavours. Diwali cauliflower, gunpowder chicken and grilled lamb chops add further choices for a varied collection of dishes in the centre of the table.
Curries range from Mother Butter Chicken, House Chicken and House Lamb to Goan fish curry and Aunty Geeta’s prawn curry. Black dahl, temple dahl, tea steeped chickpeas, paneer and picnic potato curry give vegetarian diners substantial options, while vegan and dishes without gluten are identified throughout the selection. Basmati rice, roti and paratha make it easy to build a complete shared meal.
Tiffin boxes allow the kitchen to choose a changing combination of dishes for guests who want a broader tasting route. Desserts such as gulab jamun, chocolate brownie, ice cream and sorbet provide a playful finish, while cocktails, beer, wine and alcohol free drinks complement the spice in the food. Mowgli’s sociable format makes the Charlotte Street restaurant equally suited to a quick lunch, group dinner or longer evening meal.
Address: 5 Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, London W1T 1RE, United Kingdom