General Bilimoria's Canteen - Greenford (Indian)

Punjabi families settled in East Africa for generations, and the food that came back is its own tradition — Punjabi technique with East African ingredients and names. That is what this kitchen cooks. You will see Swahili on the menu next to the Punjabi, and dishes that exist nowhere else on our menus.

Kuku is Swahili for chicken. Machuzi Kuku is cooked on the bone in a rich, aromatic sauce — the everyday chicken curry of Kenyan Punjabi households. Masaledaar Kuku takes the same chicken and cooks it dry instead, so the spices coat it rather than surround it. Order the first with rice and the second with bread.

Tilapia is the fish of Lake Victoria, and it is what a Kenyan Punjabi kitchen fries and braises. We cook the fillet in a masala flavoured with roasted spice. It is firmer and sweeter than the white fish most Indian menus use.

Spring lamb chops, cooked gently with onions and tomatoes until they give. It is a slower, softer dish than a tandoori chop, and it is one of the things people who grew up with this food order first.

Each item on our menu is coded for milk, gluten, soya, nuts, sulphites and crustaceans. If you are ordering around an allergy you can see what is in a dish before you order it, rather than having to ask.

We cook in our own kitchen and deliver across Greenford, Hayes, Northolt, Hanwell and Ealing, Wednesday to Monday from 6pm until 10:30pm. We are closed on Tuesdays. Halal options are available — ask when you order.