I f we were to believe all the “best in the world” claims that restaurants and takeaways use to peddle their menus, I’d have had the world’s best hot chocolate in Staffordshire, the world’s No 1 pain au chocolat in St Pancras, not Paris, and the “best carbonara on the planet” in a tiny café just off the Old Kent Road in southeast London. Unlikely.

However, if there is one restaurant where I’m happy to accept such a bold claim without even the tiniest pinch of salt, it is Carousel in Fitzrovia, central London, where the world’s best butter chicken is on the menu as part of the restaurant’s first long-term residency.

Founded by the Indian chef and TV star Saransh Goila, Goila Butter Chicken has

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