Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie snub London's posh restaurants for a pre-Bafta curry

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie shunned the Michelin-starred restaurants of London in favour of a local curry house for a pre-Bafta meal, it has emerged. The glamorous Hollywood couple arrived at the Dorchester hotel on Park Lane on Saturday, but opted not to eat in the Alain Ducasse restaurant where meals are around £100.

Instead they went to the Noor Jahan, an Indian restaurant in South Kensington where diners can expect to pay just £20 a head.

Shauyab Ahmed, part-owner of the restaurant, said: "They booked a table for 12 at 7.30pm and were a bit late arriving, but that was OK.

"The other customers loved it and were very happy to see them."

And the Bafta-nominated actors were not the only two famous faces around the table that night.

They were joined by former supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her film director husband Matthew Vaughn, as well as actor Robert Downey Junior.

The party dined on a feast of vegetable samosas, tandoori lamb chops and the house special, lamb passanda – a favourite dish of Vaughn's, who recommended the 40-seat restaurant.