Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Lewisham

Updated 13 November 2026. Figures come from the Food Standards Agency register as pulled on 13 November 2026. The page covers the Lewisham council area, and no business is named. The whole-area picture is on our Lewisham page.

In short: Lewisham has 15 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in SE13 and SE4. A Lewisham Indian restaurant can take direct orders on its own Chefzi page: plans run from £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), commission is 0% ever, and the first month is free with no card.

The register lists 15 premises in Lewisham with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 8 of them registered as takeaways and 7 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in SE13 (4), SE4 (2), SE12 (2), SE6 (2). That is 1.5% of the area's 1,003 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 2.2% across the UK, so the word is less common here than in the UK as a whole.

Lewisham has fewer curry-named premises than the national picture would suggest, which gives a kitchen with a well-run direct ordering page room to become the default choice on its own streets.

What the FSA register shows for Lewisham Indian and Pakistani names

Read this as a name-keyword count, not a census. A premises is counted only if its registered name contains one of the words, so Indian and Pakistani restaurants with other names are missed and any place using the word for something else is included. Only takeaway, sandwich shop, restaurant, café and canteen premises are counted, and no business is named.

Of the 15 with a numeric rating, 6 (40%) are rated 5 and 0 (0%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 49.1% of all rated takeaways in Lewisham that hold a 5. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Where they cluster

SE13 holds the most, 4 of the 15 (27%), and the premises sit across 8 postcode districts in all. A zone per district lets you charge a small fee for the close streets and a higher minimum for the outer ones, in Chefzi's delivery zones.

How Lewisham compares with the council areas next to it

The five nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises, with the same name-keyword count:

3 of the five neighbours have more of these names than Lewisham, and 2 have fewer, so the field here is mid-sized. Neighbouring set-ups: Indian restaurant ordering in Southwark and Indian restaurant ordering in Bromley.

Lewisham in the wider picture

Lewisham has 358 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 645 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 33 of 363 UK council areas, and 7 of 33 in London. Across all rated takeaways in Lewisham, 49.1% hold a 5 against 62.0% across England, and 6.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.8%. Lewisham is part of Greater London, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Lewisham Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Per 10,000 residents the count is 0.50, against 0.64 for the UK as a whole, which is below the national rate. The population used is the ONS estimate of 301,037 for the council area. Ranked on the same count across 363 council areas, Lewisham comes 91st nationally and 20th of 33 within London.

The word is most concentrated in SE12, where 4% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in SE6 at 1%. Across the whole area the share is 1.5%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 15 premises on this list with an inspection date, 67% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 47% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 8 months against 12.

Population figures are ONS mid-2025 estimates; every other figure comes from the same FSA register pull as the tables above. Small samples move a lot from one inspection to the next, so read the shares as a guide to where the pattern is, not as a verdict on any business.

How a direct ordering page helps here

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in SE13 and SE4, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Lewisham fits the spread.
• Put your link where customers already look. Point your Google Business Profile at the page (how) and tuck a QR code into every order (QR kit).
• Separate collection and delivery hours. Stop delivery when your last driver finishes and keep collection open, or the other way round, so your ordering hours follow how the kitchen works.
• Spice level as a required choice. Mild, medium or hot can be a required choice on every curry, with rice or bread as a second choice and extras at a surcharge. The ticket shows each choice on its own line.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are on every plan, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.

Late-night hot food in Lewisham: what to check

Serving hot food or drink between 11pm and 5am normally needs a late night refreshment licence under the Licensing Act 2003, issued by the local council. We could not open Lewisham's licensing page automatically, so ask the council's licensing team for its current process and fees.

For the wider England and Wales rules, read our late night refreshment licence guide. You can set collection and delivery hours independently in Chefzi, which lets your online hours follow your licence conditions. Not legal advice.

How to start

1. Send us your menu on a short call. We build it into Chefzi with you, and you should be live in 24 to 48 hours.
2. Set required choices for the way your customers order, and set your delivery zones by postcode district or radius.
3. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. Once customers agree to hear from you, send them the link (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro).

For more, see the Indian restaurant page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Lewisham location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Lewisham Indian restaurant

This is an illustration, not a measured figure for Lewisham. We have no published average order value for Lewisham Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so it uses £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Put your own numbers in.

Say 30 orders a week, about 130 a month, move from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. At £25 each that is £3,250 of sales a month. Just Eat's published partner rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% when you use your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. On those 130 orders that is £455 plus £91 VAT, £546 in all, at 14%, or £975 plus £195 VAT, £1,170, at 30%.

On Chefzi those 130 orders cost no commission. The flat Plus plan, which includes card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location excluding VAT, however busy the month is. Payment-provider card fees are left out of both sides, and any orders that stay on Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats still pay their commission.

What Chefzi does not do

Delivery stays yours: Chefzi has no courier integrations, so you use your own drivers. There is no kiosk and no CRM, and a pre-order lead time applies to the whole location rather than to a single dish. Orders that still arrive through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; Chefzi's job is to help you move regulars to your own page.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Lewisham, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Lewisham council licensing page linked above: https://lewisham.gov.uk/ (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.