London: British nonchalance meets world cuisine

London has been the European capital of international cuisine for more than three decades. It all started with Indian restaurants - to this day, nowhere west of the Hindu Kush is there a greater concentration of good addresses. No wonder that the then Foreign Secretary Robin Cook declared chicken tikka masala, of all things, to be the national dish in 2001. Veeraswamy, London's oldest Indian restaurant, has been serving the taste of cultural diversity for almost a century.