Best Dishes at Darjeeling Express

A standout lunchtime exclusive. Finely spiced minced meat (usually lamb or chicken) in a rich sauce, served on warm buttered toast. It's the kind of simple-sounding dish that becomes iconic when executed perfectly. Reviewers specifically highlight this as a must-try if you're coming at lunch. It doesn't appear on the dinner menu, which is why lunch feels different here.

Street food reinterpreted with fine dining technique. Crisp, hollow shells arrive filled with a mix of potato and chickpea, and you're given tamarind water to pour in just before eating. The shells burst when you bite down, flooding your mouth with cooling tamarind, the starch of the potato, the earthiness of chickpea. It's meant to be eaten whole and fast, before the shells absorb too much liquid. Reviewers call it life-changing because of how the flavours burst all at once.

Handmade steamed dumplings with pleated edges, filled with minced chicken and spices. They arrive soft and pillowy, best eaten whole with a dipping sauce of chilli oil or tamarind. Reviewers describe them as moreish — you eat one and immediately want another. The filling is carefully spiced, the wrapper texture is delicate. They're a bridge between Asma Khan's Himalayan influences and her Indian cooking.