Restaurant Covent Garden
With great effort and under challenging conditions, Roop has brought the most exquisite art and vintage artefacts from the Choudhary's personal collection to London. Handwoven Persian silk carpets and Tanjore paintings, an art form from the South Indian town of the same name (now called Thanjavur).
Indian Antiques at Colonel Saab Restaurant Covent Garden
ORNATE GLASS CHANDELIERS AND ARTEFACTS THAT TELL A TALE
Dining at Colonel Saab is also a feast for the eyes, with a treasure trove of eclectic Indian art and artefacts collected by Roop Partap Choudhary's family on their travels, lovingly brought to London.
The main restaurant features a carved temple door from South India, you will find a grand, pure silver door from a Gujarat temple embellishing the staircase. The opulent dining room is bathed in light by a canopy of ornate chandeliers from Firozabad. A drinks bar made by Asprey for the Maharaja of Patiala proudly sits in the private dining room, while 17th and 18th century Tanjore paintings and handwoven Persian silk carpets adorn the walls and precious decanters and crockery from the palace of the Maharaja of Faridkot shimmer in cabinets.
Art at Colonel Saab
Indian Restaurant Covent Garden
AN ECLECTIC DÉCOR WITH CONSUMMATE ELEGANCE AT INDIAN RESTAURANT COVENT GARDEN
Colonel Saab goes beyond the artifice of contrived Indian kitsch and presents an eclectic décor with consummate elegance, wit and wisdom. The Choudharys are great lovers of fine art and this is reflected in this aesthetically sumptuous space which combines the traditional with the progressive and is in a way an extension of Roop's own design ethos. It is a celebration of Indian food and drink through the eyes of a couple who had the good fortune to travel the length and breadth of an extraordinary country, interact with locals wherever they went, and collect beautiful things and document what they most loved to eat.
