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One of the best of the Brick Lane crew, this place tends to be overlooked by passing trade as it's the very first one you come to if you approach from Whitechapel High Street. They don't have a tout offering 40% off, and they aren't BYO, but when you get in, the restaurant is modern and spacious, the service is attentive to the point of obsequious, and the Xacuti is positively to die for.
www.cliftonrestaurant.com/
1 Whitechapel Road
London.
E1 6TY
Great little cafe serving delicious desi food complete with formica tables and melamine plates. Mind, don't go late at night...you'll see the next morning's trawl for the magistrates court!
Whalley Range 10 mins walk from Blackburn railway station
This is worth the trip out of town and out of Didsbury or Chorlton. Amazing, healthy (well, as healthy as a curry could be) and good value. Great service, always willing to give advice on what's best and wine to go with it. A real gem!
I agree that curry mile isn't worth it unless you're very inebriated and after the experience of the location, rather than the taste of the curry.
Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton.
Traditional recipes, excellent portions and a taste you will never get anywhere else in Edinburgh.
They are now based in Victoria Street and Altaf has got a wee bit up hisself as he has turned a £2k a week cafe into a mega money making machine, prices are now at their optimum and I go maybe four times a year when previously I could be there twice a week. Still the best though.
Victoria street
Edinburgh
By far the best Indian restaurant I have ever been to. A real eye opener, making the traditional curry houses (which I love) seem like the Indian version of a microwaved Wetherspoons burger. Whilst it might appear a bit "posh" to some, its certainly not pretentious - just very good quality and a wonderful atmosphere.
For the quality of food, prices are very reasonable.
Proper desi food. This is probably one of the best restaurants in the Balti Triangle as it's been christened.
It's balti food aimed more at brown people - of which I am one, so when you pop in you will see the place is usually rammed full of desi families.
Worth going just to check out the chairs.
No Chicken Tikka Massala here. Just proper Kashmiri cusine. I recommend the Achari Chicken with Chilli naan bread.
Only downside is that the portions aren't great.
706 Stratford Road, Sparkhill Birmingham
B11 4AT Map
Tel 0121 778 4450
Brilliant old fashioned curry house with slow service but excellent, excellent food - subtle, restrained and delicious unlike most in-your-face curries that seem to be all the rage nowadays.
www.rajpoot.co.uk
4 Argyle Street
Bath
Somerset
BA2 4BA
Easily the best, and best value, place to get curry in Edinburgh. Just a handful of tables, no hurry service, everything cooked to order, and massive platefuls you'll struggle to finish.
Cheap, cheerful, and unbeatable. Very popular with locals and students, but with a very diverse customer profile (based on looking at who's in!). Worth coming to Edinburgh for. No, really!
www.kebab-mahal.co.uk, 7 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9B
Odd name for a restaurant, I know, but what a restaurant. Easily the best curry in Edinburgh! And I should know - I was born and bred in Bradford!
Consistently tasty, very friendly staff, great for a romantic meal for two, or for a small number of friends, not so good for large parties, which means it's nice and quiet. Lamb tikka is superb, great pilau rice and succulent sultana naans. Wonderful!
50 East Fountainbridge
(Just off Lothian Road)
Edinburgh
EH3 9BH
www.gandhis-restaurant-uk.com
Cheap, fantastic food served in a canteen style environment. Not pretty but quite easily one of the best curry houses in Tooting. 9 members of the tooting curry club attended, all left very full and all we spent in total was £80. For the full review read our blog - tootingcurryclub.blogspot.com
1 Tooting High Street, London, SW17 0SN
Taking the "curry" experience in an Indian restaurant to the next level. Amazing food
I've been eating here for over 10 years. It's a great family-run restaurant. Always busy (worth booking), yet the service has been consistently friendly. Stands out against fierce competition in the area.
Really good range of Handis, particularly the Green Chicken Handi.
Search out Monica Ali's review in The Observer.
73 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London SE22 8EP. 0871 426 3062.
It's an Indian restaurant rather than a curry house, if that makes any sense.
The food is just fantastic - a million miles from the generic curry sauce used on different ingredients that so many places churn out. Fantastic food, good prices, good portions, friendly staff.
It's the best Indian food I've had outside of India, and since moving away from Nottingham I've really missed it. Despite hunting high and low in Bristol, where I am now, I've not yet found anywhere near its equal.
43 Mount Street Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1 6HE
A really good traditional chippie just a few yards from the town centre.
Dolgellau town centre
First stop on the Curry Mile from the City Centre, and no need to go further - excellent service, from the complimentary poppadoms and pickles -tasty, well-prepared and presented curries and high tolerance for families. They have two other branches in Didsbury and Heald Green, but Rusholme works for me.
Oxford Road, Rusholme
Curry house that always delivers fantastic food. Rich, spicey and delicious.
38 Brighton Rd,
Surbiton
Surrey.
KT6 5PQ.
020 8399 9647
Devana is the best Indian restaurant I have been to - it is reknowned in my family as the place to go for a mouth watering Peshwari naan!
80 Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 7AZ
0118 987 1803
Great restaurant, great food, good selection, excellent service, ice-cold draught Cobra (and bottled King Cobra), very good fixed price menu with good selection midweek. Book on Fridays and Saturdays.
I've tried them all locally and this is the best.
133 Chanterlands Avenue Hull HU5 3TJ. About 1 and a half miles from city centre.
Fantastic local curry house. A tiny little place in a run-down back street in SW8. Fantastic east-African food with real flavour and very cheap. Bring your own drink. Regularly changing specials. Particularly good for vegetarians.
Wilcox Close, London, SW8.
Nearest tubes Stockwell and Vauxhall.
Nearest bus routes 2, 88, 77, 87, 196.
Babur is (apparently) a bit of a south-east London legend and has existed for over 20 years. Their takeaway is the best I've ever had (whole spices, judicious application of chilli heat, pretty decent quality meat etc).
They have just refurbished their restaurant (which is in a differnt location to the takeaway). It's always packed at the weekend with a nice crowd, and no p*ssed-up punters, which could be due to the fact it's a bit dearer than your average ruby due to it's modern take on regional classics. Good wine-list too, and really helpful, friendly staff. I really can't recommend this place enough...
119 Brockley Rise
Forest Hill
London SE23 1JP
www.babur.info
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