Satish Patel
Superb little foodie restaurant, great find and had a great chat with the owner, Raj.
Its bring your own beer and no corkage charge which is great with a pub next door to slake your thirst.
Food is hot and tasty with a good selection of the standards done well.
Do visit you'll love it.
Gunnar Arctaedius
Amazing place!! Really nice staff, great food, and q great price! Only £7 for a meal. Best Indian (Pakistani?) food I've had in London.
Janine Exley
Amazing hidden gem that I’ve been going to for years. I’ve always allowed them to choose a selection of dishes for me. It’s delicious and reasonably priced and is BYO without a corkage charge. I’m sad to hear that yet again profit has overruled and Hot Stuff will be no more at the end of the year due to redevelopment. I’m hoping to relocate.
Jess Ju
Great Indian food and THE LOVELIEST PEOPLE! It was BYOB at no charge, and the owner was extremely attentive and welcoming. They do a tasting menu for about £15 per person and it was all delicious. The curries were delicious, the shrimps were perfectly cooked, and the sauces were addictive as well. DEFINITELY WORTH THE TRIP!
R V
FIrst came here 20 years ago and now live nearby. Cute little Indian cafe, with BYOB and no corkage. Portions are a bit small for the price, but food tastes awesome. Probs better for meat eaters than veggies. Place was playing old school drum and bass all evening when I was there, which was different to the usual traditional Indian music. I hear it is closing in 2021 so go before it shuts!
Richard Henderson
Just been there, having enjoyed a very good takeaway last night with relatives nearby. Felt like family, which it is. REALLy good food. Just so nice; also I really dislike paying for ‘frills’ - this was basic furnished - you pay for what you get to eat. And they are completely happy with you bringing your own wine/beer. Next time, if on my own, I’ll try to arrive for 6pm latest, choose a table under a good light, and hope peace and quiet to eat and read at leisure before the party begins. Very, very good place. I didn’t think there were any left like this. Congratulations to chef and staff!!
Hussein Ahmad
Really delicious food, each time we order I have a new favourite dish.
Raj and the team are so hospitable.
Pick up in person so you can sneak in a samosa on the walk home.
Cara O'Connell
Like other reviewers have noticed, the staff was excellent. We were very excited by the offer for them to choose dishes for us (they are the experts!). We loved everything they served. We visited while touring London for a few days so we won't get the chance to visit again soon, but what a shame for us!
Tiffany Laczkowski
Visited this place a couple of weeks ago when we were in London. Raj, the owner, was amazing. Friendly and welcoming and we did the menu where he just brings us things based on what we were planning to order. We told him we wanted chicken tikka masala and he rolled his eyes and brought us some of chicken dish that was amazing. Lamb Korma was delicious. Aubergine was delicious. It’s BYOB so we purchased a bottle of wine from the shop next door. No corkage fee. Overall, really wonderful experience. Thanks, Raj!
Vic
Delicious food and great service. We paid £20 each and they brought out a selection of starters, mains and side for us to share. Can't recommend this restaurant enough.
Lauren Madden
Food was amazing and at a great price. The staff was beyond accommodating. We did an offer they have where you agree on a price and tell them your specific ingredient likes and dislikes, and they pick out starters and entres for you to share, and it was absolutely delicious. 6 stars/5!
Tim Brewis
Fabulous food, great service, excellent Irish Pub next door who will let you take your drinks to Hot Stuff. And by far the best Indian in London. But then I am biased and I have only been coming here for 27 years. When it fit
Max M
Everyone I know that's been here loves this place. It's like no other curry house you will ever go to. The staff are so relaxed but very helpful and all the cooking is done in the style of the current owners mother who started the place. It's BYOB and there is a shop next door that seems to be there just to serve Hot Stuff's customers. Try the fish curry!🥘
Benedict Cruft
A lovely place that I have been going to for years. It has great food, unusually friendly and charming people working there, and a BYO-with-no-corkage-charge policy. Hot Stuff is an unusual kind of restaurant where the staff seem to know most of the customers as friends – as they have been coming here for years, whether they are local Vauxhall inhabitants or making the journey across London.
Alex Ball
Incredible food in a little tucked away place. So tasty and very reasonable value. Service excellent. Bring your own alcohol. NB the laundrette next door is the location for "My Beautiful Laundrette"...
James Gorham
Amazingly good food, top service and atmosphere. A real gem. Epic textured curries and fantastic plates, well recommended banquet. Thanks Raj and team! Looking forward to more dnb backed banquets!
Karam Kanan
Really great Indian food. You can either order on your own from the menu or you can sit back, relax and have them bring out food. Definitely recommend that option, their selection was amazing. Everything was absolutely delicious with a variety of meat and vege dishes.
Guilherme Telha
Really good, one of the best rogan josh in London! Great atmosphere and the staff is friendly and easygoing. You can also sit outside and enjoy the warm nights.<br/>
Mohammed Al Bastaki
The food was excellent, went for lunch on a weekday in April and it was really quite. Will visit the place again to try other items from the menu.
Lardbutty
A hidden gem, not far from Vauxhall station, Hot Stuff serves great quality Indian food and – being BYOB – is excellent value. The small restaurant has a nicely intimate feel, and even on our Tuesday evening visit last night it was buzzing. Serving staff were racing around while looking after customers well.
Sankar Hariharan
One of the best Indian restaurants.. Cooked the Indian way!! Welcoming staff, nice and homely atmosphere.. What more to say when your tummy is happy ;-)
Olga Kosheva
One of the best places to go for curry! There is so much food that comes out of the kitchen once you are seated that you have to not eat for a whole day before going here. Everything is made freshly that day and tastes like heaven. The meats melt in your mouth and the rice has so much flavor. I definitely consider this one of my favorite places in london to go for Indian food experience!
THE ZOMATO WARRIOR
Best curry house in Europe.<br/><br/>Just off the SW London highways, a quiet little row of shops with Hot Stuff's garish font tucked in the middle. <br/><br/>Tiny place that gets busy, worth booking. iPod dock blaring out traditional Indian music slowly transitioning into dancier stuff by the end of the night. <br/><br/>Load up on beers at the newsagents next door and then if it's your first time there's a huge free naan bread with ur name on it. (And the naan is brilliant, garlic and coriander, different to the regular bread u get but better)<br/><br/>Let the chef pick our food for us: some incredible paneer, decent bhajis, amazing meats, fish madras was sick, Karahi chicken hit the spot. (Excuse the badly taken picture below, had to put in black and white coz it looked pretty sickening lol)<br/><br/>Waiter is a top geezer too.<br/><br/>Love this place, will definitely go back ??????@
Ilse
If you are after fresh, authentic indian food in an easy informal setting, hot stuff is the place to go. You can BYO own booze and let the chef make a selection for you. They have dishes for those who hate and love it hot, but for those of you who love spicy food..your taste buds will be tingling with delight! If you are after a fancy meal in a posh frock, this is not for you, you take it as you find it- its all about the food.
Paul
We ordered from 'Hot Stuff on Wheels', the takeaway arm of this restaurant. Portions were small, ante food was pretty uninteresting. £8 for four small prawns in the King Prawn massala and a jalfrezi that lacked any spice or flavour whatsoever. The mixed bhajis were like no bhajis I'd ever seen before. We will not be ordering from here again!
Tom
Ok ignore the review below, I went to a different restaurant in vauxhall and got the names confused...<br/><br/><br/>-----02 Oct, 2012-----<br/><br/>AVOID THIS PLACE ..... My p.... AVOID THIS PLACE .....<br/>My personal experience ..<br/> I looked at the reviews and they must be fake as this is ridiculous... that meal cost me 9.50 and I got one piece of naan bread which was yellow and covered in grease and the chicken masala was 4 small pieces of chicken in a tasteless and slightly spicy sauce.. this was a shocking waste of money and I can't believe they are actually in business, you could go to sainsburys and get about 4 times the amount they serve for half the price.. and atleast that would come with rice!.. so bad...
Maxine Plumb
PLEASE READ BEFORE EATING HERE. I have just ordered a takeaway from here. I am really quite shocked at how bad the food is. Probably the worst curry I've ever had in fact i've had better microwave currys from tesco. The excellent reviews must be fake. The food looks fowl and tastes alot worse. I ordered a chicken dansak and tikka masala they both had no flavour or spice what so ever. All you can taste is salt. The naan looks like a green/yellow flat bread. The chickpeas were swimming in oil. The mint yogurt tasted sour and past it's sell by date. As for the onion bhaji god knows what that was! Horrific. Ignore at all costs.
Julia
I don't get the hype. I live very close to Hot Stuff and was excited to get a booking after reading all the mostly positive reviews - diners and critics. I loved the fact it was BYO and the staff were super friendly. The owner came over and asked us if we wanted to choose off the menu or go with his recommendations. We chose the later. The first to arrive were some weird deep fried balls which were soggy and the filling very bland. The tandoori paneer was super sweet. And then the mains arrived. A chicken dish which was overcooked, a sag paneer which was fine but on a par with any average Indian in the UK, and a lamb dish which was the only highlight. An accompanying rice dish was again too sweet. We spent 6 weeks travelling through India last yr and know that Indian food can be light, full of flavour, dotted with great herbs and delicious. This food was bland, heavy handed and actually way below the par of your High Street Indian. I just don't understand how this food could ever be praised. The owner seemed taken aback that we had hardly eaten anything and would not let us pay for our meal - saying you will enjoy the food when you come back for a 2nd time and can pay then. Sadly we won't be back.
Jeremy
Great food and friendly staff. The best local eatery and very affordable too. Highly recommend.
Stacey Eccles
Fantastic Value for Money. This is a really friendly Indian, without over doing it. <br/>Excellent value for money<br/>We booked as a table of 9, squeezed in, tucked into the standard menu for groups and were very pleasantly surprised. <br/>The BOY is a fantastic aspect of this. It kept a team night out down to an affordable, enjoyable evening.<br/><br/>Fantastic find in the middle of London
Jules
Simply the best. Used to be local. Have moved twice and still come back for more. Friends who have moved to Sussex and Suffolk get us to bring takeaways when we visit. Only downsides - it's too popular and even after several raj makeovers the acoustics are still terrible. But with food so good who wants to talk?!
MLK
Excellent food - we took the recommendations of the waiter and were not disappointed. Very busy on a Friday night. The decor has had a makeover. Staff were very friendly and excellent service. Fabulous food at a fabulous price!
Nomad
Lovely. enough said.
Chris G
If you haven't discovered this little gem in south London you have to go. Book your table, bring your beer (as it's unlicensed) and let Raj order for you. The curries were very good and better than most of the rip off places you'll find across London - but be warned, they don't do chicken tikka massala and if that's your idea of curry ou probably won't enjoy it! It's a basic place, but the atmosphere is great and if you run out of beer there's an offie next door!
Jack Carver
No frills and not licenced - but possibly the best Indian food in London. Ignore the menu and go with the managers recommendation - you won't be dissapointed.
Whatever
Lovely stuff. Definitely recommend this place. The chilli paneer is the nuts! Very good value too in a no frills environment. It's all about the food, which is top notch.
ML
Believe the critics ... Best Indian food in London, maybe even best food in London.
Paul Hart
From the outside Hot Stuff looks like a shit hole, when you get inside they've not really done much to dispel that initial image. The front of house is cramped, ill lit and you are sat cheek and jowl with your fellow diners. Why then is this place so busy? When the food comes out it all becomes clear. With no menu as such they bring out dishes they think you'll like and they had a surprisingly high hit rate. The Marrow Curry was unlike anything I've ever had before; delicate, fresh and vibrant it actually took the base ingredient and turned it into something of surprise and delight. The Keralan Chicken was sweet and spicy, the Lamb Dopiaza lacked a fiery punch but it had some good flavour. An amazing and simple dish of spiced cabbage had me coming back for more and the Naan was one of th
Hamish Cameron
...it’s not going to “wow” you but there is something lovely about a small family run place that serves up generous portions of good grub
Andy Hayler
Hot Stuff is an unassuming Indian restaurant in a parade of shops in Vauxhall, and has been trading since September 1988. This is an area that an estate agent might term “edgy”, and right on cue we saw a man walking his pit bull just as we arrived. The place is very simple, with just eight cramped tables, a tiny dining room with purple walls and no tablecloths. There is no alcohol license, but you can bring your own with no corkage charge, and there is a shop just yards away from which you can buy emergency beer. The menu offers standard north Indian fare, and was very modestly priced. Pilau rice and tandoori naan were just £2, and everything on the menu was below £10. <br/>
Luke Honey
A few days ago, I was amazed to discover that a foodie friend of mine (over here for a few months from Bangkok) had never been to the cult South London Indian restaurant, Hot Stuff. Hot Stuff reminds me of one of those tiny local restaurants you can find
Cheese And Biscuits
Every neighbourhood of London deserves a Hot Stuff. It is the kind of idiosyncratic, homely and budget-friendly restaurant that the residents of Vauxhall must be proud to call their local, but then thanks to various glowing reviews in the national press,
Tania Ziegler
The restaurant itself is cute and friendly. The staff are very nice and they can do a fairly quick turn-around. You can bring your own alcohol and the staff accommodate your needs...putting your stuff in their fridge or bringing a cooler out. They can cater to large groups and small groups...though if you are a large group, best to ring them up before you go. I tend to go with 3-5 people...as their dishes are best for sharing. <br/><br/> Pretty decent food but it sort of all tastes the same. I've had various chicken and lamb dishes and I don't think I can really tell them apart. Given that it is reasonably priced, you are getting bang for your buck, but it is not the most original or unique Indian restaurant in town. I think it is a great place for people who don't like their food too spicy...which is funny given their name. <br/><br/>Should you wish to do take-out, they can have everything prepared in about 20 minutes.
Phillip Weston
Amazing! Tucked away it must be vauxhalls best kept secret! Food was delicious and the service even better. I think it will be my new 'local' for sure
Andrea Facchini
Never lets you down. Fresh and made-with-love food - BYO and affordable. A local institution.
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