Bombay Rickshaw

Bombay Rickshaw trades as a family-run Indian takeaway on West Street in central Erith — one of the busier curry shops at this end of the south-east Bexley town, and the one that has invested the most in a public-facing online presence with its own website, app and active Facebook page. The stated objective on the shop's own marketing is to be "the best Indian takeaway in Erith", and the operation runs on that level of effort: halal certification, a properly photographed menu and free local delivery within a defined radius.

The menu is fully Anglo-Indian — tandoori grills, baltis, korma to phall, biryanis, chef's specials and a respectable vegetarian section — alongside the set-meal-for-two deals that are the working currency of Erith curry-house trade. The shop is delivery-led rather than dine-in, with most orders going to households across central Erith as well as the residential strips on Picardy Road and around Pier Road.

Central Erith has been heavily redeveloped over the past 20 years — the Erith Quarry housing and the new Erith Health Hub among them — and the West Street takeaways have had to work to keep their pre-existing customers loyal as Bluewater and the Bexleyheath restaurants have pulled trade away. Bombay Rickshaw is one of the West Street operators that has managed it, and reviews sit consistently in the upper-mid range for an Erith curry-house.