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With quality food, friendly staff, quick service and excellent value for money, Nando's is a great place to eat. Don't expect identikit, pre-fab restaurant interiors which are usually a staple of the larger chains; each restaurant is tailored to its local surroundings and customers, offering up a unique restaurant experience to go with the equally unique taste of legendary, Portuguese, Peri-Peri chicken.

Your peri-peri chicken, when the chips are down so to speak, is a fresh A grade chicken that has never seen the inside of a freezer, but having made the supreme sacrifice is butterfly-cut, marinated for 24 hours in a secret brew called - you've guessed - peri-peri, and is then cooked to your choice over an open flame.

There are, of course, many variations on this broad theme, numerous plays on words such as Nando's experi-perience, peri-peri good reasons why you should eat at a Nando's, and all one hopes is that for their sake chicken never goes out of fashion. New Nando's are opening all the time, peri-peri quickly in fact, the spicy bastes become hotter and more daring, and the full platter offers a whole chicken, large chips or spicy rice and Nando's salad or coleslaw.

Since chickens are vegetarian it seems logical you can order veggie or bean burgers and patties, and still feel the heat from the peppers. All in all, Nando's is hotly recommended for those occasions when you have a large following of permanently hungry children, or adults even, to keep happy - the only thing taken really seriously is the quality of those peri-peri good chickens.

Nando's is a place for bright people who love to laugh and love to eat, and is guaranteed to spice up your taste buds. Their fun approach to life means that when you visit Nando's you can fully relax without the airs and graces associated with more starchy dining out.

For the location of your nearest Nando's restaurant and a host of details about menus, parties and drinks, a click on their Website will reveal a Pandora's box of information.

Haandi is named after a cooking utensil that allows for even spreading of heat, usually covered with a lid, it traps the subtle flavours of the ingredients being cooked, and is used extensively in Northern India and its frontiers.

Haandi is also a sophisticated restaurant chain with branches across the globe and a menu that pays homage to classic Indian food with bold flavours. Popular fare such as the spicy bhuna lamb jalandari with onions and fresh pepper, and tawa prawn masala are prepared in the open kitchen by chefs trained in the original Nairobi branch, adding a touch of theatre to the meal, watching the pans being stirred, checked and flambéed. Amongst starters you might encounter a skewered and spiced tilapia, tandoori chops flavoured with ginger and yogurt marinade and meat samosa, and finally for some sweet indulgence there's kesar rasmalai, cheese dumplings soaked in sweetened saffron flavoured milk.

Sushi brings to mind the quintessential Japanese dining experience with tasty easy-to-eat parcels of food that can make a satisfying snack or meal. Me Love Sushi in Hale Lane offers customers all that and more with the convenience of dining in or takeaway. Place orders directly on the website or call to enjoy these delicacies in the comfort of your home or office.

The restaurant's experienced chefs hand-roll the freshest fish and fine ingredients to create delicious sushi including sashimi, finger shaped nigiri, cone like temaki, uramaki, and futomaki with toppings and fillings of tuna, grilled eel, crispy duck, soft shell crab, salmon roe and pickled Asian radish. The interestingly named 'teasers' selection features a variety of small dishes that embrace crispy tuna tatiki, calamari chunks, seared beef and gyoza dumplings filled with king prawn, chicken or vegetables.

Further evidence of the diversity of Japanese cuisine is offered by dishes such as king prawn tempura, chicken and pineapple skewers, chicken katsu curry, barbequed freshwater eel, grilled beef and pan fried tiger prawns with crabmeat and vegetables. A range of soba and udon noodles with prawn, chicken and salmon is more fuel for the appetite. Specials such as grilled black cod marinated in sweet miso sauce and thin slices of 'white' tuna with green jalapeno peppers give the discerning diner more choices. Vegetarians can also rejoice at the variety at their disposal at Me Love Sushi.

Sake, Japanese beer and wine as well as a range of signature cocktails complement the food perfectly.

Bright contemporary interiors welcome guests to Kabul City Restaurant on Station Road, just a couple of minutes walk from Edgware tube station. The restaurant offers guests an authentic Afghan cuisine experience with a range of exotic dishes with brief descriptions of each item on the menu for the uninitiated. Kabul City also operates a 'bring your own bottle' policy and will not charge a corking fee.
 
The à la carte menu offers starters of aubergine, tomato and herbs mixed with thick yogurt, charcoal grilled halloumi cheese and hummus. Sumptuous lamb dishes occupy pride of place in Afghan cuisine and the main course menu reflects this with a variety of kebabs, kofta chalow, and qabili palow - a traditional dish of rice, carrots, raisins and chunks of lamb which is a meal in itself. Other options include king fish curry cooked in a special sauce, or aasak, an Afghan pasta dish with leak and herbs.

Large family platters make it easier for large parties to taste a wide range of dishes while a takeaway menu replicates the experience at home.