We have a nice East African restaurant nearby. We really liked the staff, beer and experience.
MR's pic is pretty much what you get.
A vast pancake in the middle of the table with different dishes tipped on it, everyone piles in from all sides. Just use hands if you like? It's fun.
We felt it fell down in a couple of places.
The pancake is fermented. I'm ok with fermented foods generally, but it wasn't like kimchi. It was like slightly vinegary carpet underlay.
It's in Tooting, so it's up against quite a lot of cuisines that offer lots of little dishes on one plate.
The thalis and lamprises are better, for me. Roti, paratha, chapathi, naan and puri breads are wonderful, then there's rice too.
There is fusion Indian/African food, it's not a recent fad. Indians settled Africa and got to grips with the local produce.
We had one of these, ran by the Thanki family, that was a top restaurant. Grandma came in at the weekends and made the specials.
These burned bananas in their skins would come to the table. First timers would look on in horror They were fooking amazing.
The building they were in was knocked down and the block redeveloped, sadly. You still see people asking the family to return on FB.