Taste of India

[vetran]

Best rule always check who eats there first.

If you walk past and everyone in there is talking Punjabi etc. and eating with their fingers its good. Its normally in the middle of Indian population centres.

there used to be some nice ones in Southall & Harrow.

Works the same for Chinese.

[barrydidit]

Problem is of course that what people call an "Indian" in the UK is usually never that.
95% of "Indian" restaurants in the UK are run by Bangladeshis using formulaic recipes that have nothing at all to do with Indian cuisine.
There are a few up-market genuine Indian restaurants in central London which are invariably excellent.

Absolute bollocks. I'd struggle to find some non-Kashmiri/Pakistani heritage stuff in west Yorkshire.

[fullyautomatix]

Problem is of course that what people call an "Indian" in the UK is usually never that.
95% of "Indian" restaurants in the UK are run by Bangladeshis using formulaic recipes that have nothing at all to do with Indian cuisine.
There are a few up-market genuine Indian restaurants in central London which are invariably excellent.

I agree with SAS on this one.

For good Indian food, try Benares or Dishoom. You will not touch the Chicken Tikka masala again.

Problem is, in India, the regional cuisine changes every 100 miles. Which is why the curry restaurants here in UK are flourishing, they all provide the same templated menu with the same food, somehow the UK curry restaurants have standardised the varied Indian cuisine.

[LondonManc]

Absolute bollocks. I'd struggle to find some non-Kashmiri/Pakistani heritage stuff in west Yorkshire.

Can't be bollocks. Assguru wrote it so it must be true.

[fullyautomatix]

Absolute bollocks. I'd struggle to find some non-Kashmiri/Pakistani heritage stuff in west Yorkshire.

Bangladesh was one part of Pakistan, if that helps.

[Smartie]

I agree with SAS on this one.

Problem is, in India, the regional cuisine changes every 100 miles. Which is why the curry restaurants here in UK are flourishing, they all provide the same templated menu with the same food, somehow the UK curry restaurants have standardised the varied Indian cuisine.

Apparently not. Apparently the lack of trained staff means that 2-3 Indian restaurants are closing every week in the UK. Obviously it's the lack of immigration that's the problem ;-) Still, an interesting read. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...sh-curry-house

[LondonManc]

Bangladesh was one part of Pakistan, if that helps.

Kashmir is nowhere near Bangladesh. HTH too.

While the curry houses we frequent are more likely than not run by Bengalis and the dishes served very much theirs (especially the fish dishes, such as ayir), the Asian population of West Yorkshire is predominantly of Pakistani origin. Many restaurants as such, in West Yorkshire, will be run by Pakistanis but serve Bengali cuisine.

On a national level, most Bengalis over here are from the relatively small region of Sylhet (with the Bengali guys I know offering no explanation for that phenomenon!)

[fullyautomatix]

Apparently not. Apparently the lack of trained staff means that 2-3 Indian restaurants are closing every week in the UK. Obviously it's the lack of immigration that's the problem ;-) Still, an interesting read. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...sh-curry-house

When I said flourishing, I meant being able to successfully sell the "curry" to the masses here who seem addicted to curry and beer as takeaways.

If the restaurants have some dodgy business model which depends on illegal immigration, I am not going to give a thumbs up for that!

[barrydidit]

Bangladesh was one part of Pakistan, if that helps.

It helps enormously, thank-you.

[fullyautomatix]

It helps enormously, thank-you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bangladesh