The hearing follows the postponement of a five-day hearing that had been due to begin at Central London County Court on 29 June.
The Michelin-starred restaurant has continued to trade at Victory House, near Piccadilly Circus, since its £205,000-a-year lease expired last summer after the Crown Estate declined to renew it.
Speaking to the Financial Times ahead of the hearing, Ranjit Mathrani, co-founder of Veeraswamy owner MW Eat, questioned whether the landlord would have taken the same approach with a restaurant serving a cuisine it was more familiar with.
“Would they have done that to Gordon Ramsay? No,” he says.
The Crown Estate rejected the suggestion that it favours particular cuisines, pointing to the range of restaurants across its West End portfolio.
The landlord says it needs vacant possession to refurbish Victory House, where the upper-floor offices have been empty since a basement flood at the end of 2023.
Its plans include enlarging the office reception by removing the wall that separates it from the restaurant entrance, a change it says would allow it to charge higher office rents.
MW Eat argues that the works can go ahead while Veeraswamy continues to trade and has offered to share the enlarged entrance and match the rent the Crown Estate expects to receive from office tenants.
The Crown Estate has offered to help Veeraswamy relocate, but Mathrani told the FT that its £500,000 compensation offer would cover only a fraction of the £5m MW Eat estimates a move would cost.
In February, a petition signed by more than 20,000 people was delivered to Buckingham Palace calling on the King to intervene.
Veeraswamy celebrated its centenary on 16 March.
Mathrani told Restaurant at the time that he and fellow MW Eat founders Namita and Camellia Panjabi had retained responsibility for the dispute following the group’s sale to Canadian firm Fairfax Financial Holdings.