General Bilimoria's Canteen - East Molesey

Most Indian takeaways offer a prawn curry and stop there. We run a full seafood section: Goan fish curry made with tandoori monkfish in coconut milk, chilli monkfish grilled with peppers, tandoori salmon in a bhuna sauce, and six king prawn dishes cooked every way from creamy cashew to spinach and paneer.

A Goan fish curry is built on coconut milk rather than cream or tomato, which makes it lighter and slightly sweet against the spice. We use monkfish, cooked in the tandoor first so it holds together in the sauce instead of breaking up.

Molly — or moilee — is a mild South Indian coconut stew, gentle enough that the seafood is the thing you taste rather than the spice. Ours is made with mixed seafood. It is the dish to order if you want the fish to lead.

Eleven dishes joined the menu recently. Lamb shank is cooked on the bone with chickpeas until it falls apart. Lamb Sultan is a slowly roasted leg with royal cumin garam. There is also Lamb Chennai, ground with coriander, pepper and red chilli in the Tamil style, and Deshi Gost braised with a touch of spice.

Eleven dishes come off the charcoal grill, cooked dry rather than in sauce. Alongside them sit fourteen appetisers and eleven vegetarian sides, so a full table order does not have to be built around curry alone.

We cook in our own kitchen on the Thames and deliver across TW16 to Walton-on-Thames, East Molesey, Shepperton, Hampton, Weybridge, Halliford, Charlton, Addlestone, Ashford and Chertsey. Halal options are available — ask when you order.