Coulsdon & nearby suburbs →
A small cluster of long-running curry houses around Coulsdon, Purley and the Surrey border. Good for weeknight takeaways and low-key Friday dinners, with a gentle bias towards veggie mains and rice-led dishes.
Beta · vegetarian & GF-friendly curry guide
Find curry that actually loves your gut back.
Local Curry is a small, opinionated guide to vegetarian and gluten-free-friendly curry in the UK. We’re a veggie family starting close to home in South London & Surrey, eating our way through real neighbourhood curry houses and writing up the ones that actually work.
Vegetarian & vegan-friendly focus
GF-aware where possible
No sponsored listings
UK cities & suburbs
Everything here is a work-in-progress beta. Some pages are half-built while we quietly test menus, talk to staff about gluten, and cook the same recipes again at home.
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London veg & GF-friendly curry →
Central and neighbourhood favourites with decent vegetarian options, lentil-based dishes and rice-first thalis. We’re prioritising places where it’s possible to eat well without relying only on paneer and chips.
What makes Local Curry different
This isn’t a listicle site or an AI-generated directory. It’s a slow, human project: part family notebook, part local guide. A few things we care about:
Real visits, not scraped lists
Every place we recommend is somewhere we’ve actually ordered from or eaten in ourselves. No bulk-imported data, no “best of” lists generated from star ratings alone.
Veg first, not veg as an afterthought
We look for menus where vegetarian dishes are looked after: lentil-based mains, interesting veg curries, and sides that don’t all rely on cream and cheese.
GF-aware, but not medical advice
One of us is gluten-intolerant, so we always ask about wheat, flour and cross-contamination. We’ll share what we’re told, but you should always double-check with staff if you’re coeliac or highly sensitive.
No paid placements
Restaurants can’t pay to jump the queue or buy their way onto the list. If we ever work with a place more closely, we’ll say so clearly.
Cook the same things at home
Alongside the directory, we’re slowly writing up the simple veg and GF-aware curries that actually work in our kitchen on a Tuesday night.
Weeknight-friendly recipes
Think quick chana masala, tray-bake tandoori cauliflower, and lighter takes on our favourite takeaway dishes – with notes on where we’ve had to adapt for gluten.
Know a great veg-friendly curry house?
If you run, work at or love a curry house that looks after vegetarians and gluten-intolerant guests, we’d like to hear about it – especially around South London, Surrey and nearby towns.
Email us at hello@localcurry.co.uk with a few lines about the place and what they do well.