One for Karlos really...........

Can you recommend a good curry house in Manchester centre?  I'll be in Manc in about 2 hours and fancy myself a right good curry. Patching things up with the missus meal if you will.

[Karlos]

Manchester centre is not really the place, you need to head to Rusholme's (in)famous "curry mile".

Fortunately, this is a doddle to get to from the city centre (Simply head south along Oxford Road). Not more than 5-10 mins really.

Once there, the choice is quite something.

Overall the standard is quite good but personally I always found Sanam and Al Bilal the best places to eat in. The former does not serve alcohol (or allow it on the premesis) however.

Other places worth a look are Tabak (which does Nepalese food) and Hanaan which is a bit 'posher' looking but the food is no better than the others.

[Karlos]

Actually, there are some excellent (food quality) small take outs in back Picadilly but not the place for a proper eat in meal with the missus.

I'm sure GadgetMaster can reccomend some good spots too; this guy knows his curry :-)

Karlos wrote:
Manchester centre is not really the place, you need to head to Rusholme's (in)famous "curry mile".

Fortunately, this is a doddle to get to from the city centre (Simply head south along Oxford Road). Not more than 5-10 mins really.

Once there, the choice is quite something.

Overall the standard is quite good but personally I always found Sanam and Al Bilal the best places to eat in. The former does not serve alcohol (or allow it on the premesis) however.

Other places worth a look are Tabak (which does Nepalese food) and Hanaan which is a bit 'posher' looking but the food is no better than the others.

Ta! I'm setting off in a minute, so thanks for the quick relpy! :-D

[Karlos]

Enjoy!

[Vincent]

mdma wrote:
Patching things up with the missus meal if you will.

Good luck :-)

[Karlos]

Vincent wrote:

mdma wrote:
Patching things up with the missus meal if you will.

Good luck :-)

That too :-D

[Karlos]

Mmmmm, I wonder what they had. Damn I could just fancy a curry now!

[adz]

Thats one thing Austalia seems to lack, Indian take aways, I love curry, but I just can't seem to find a decent place. We have a lot of Chinese resaurants and most of them do a few curry dishes, but there isn't much of a variety. We have heaps of Greek taverns and there seems to be an unnatural abundance of pizza and pasta joints. Another food I like is Mexican and there is a really nice Mexican restaurant 5 minutes from my place, anyways, best of luck with the missus mdma.

@adz, Karlos, and Vincent

Thanks.

We ended up missing the train (So we could have a drink), so we had an english meal locally then went out and got wasted. :-D

Hopefully we will go out in Manc on Saturday, but she works weekends so might not.

I really fancy a Nepalese now though, so might go on my own! :-)

[Vincent]

mdma wrote:
...then went out and got wasted. :-D

Sounds like everything went ok :-D

[Wilse]

@Karlos:

Overall the standard is quite good but personally I always found Sanam and Al Bilal the best places to eat in. The former does not serve alcohol (or allow it on the premesis) however.

Strangely enough, given that I'm a complete bevvy-monster who rarely goes a night without a beer, neither of my two favourite Glasgow curry houses sell alcohol.

My favourite is The Anarkali, (tandoori sizzler - heaven) which does allow you to bring your own alcohol. To be fair, I usually do take a couple of beers with me when I go there.

The other one, The Village Curry House, (barbecued lamb chops - mmmmmm..) doesn't allow it on the premises.

Vincent wrote:

mdma wrote:
...then went out and got wasted. :-D

Sounds like everything went ok :-D

Sort of... until i woke up this morning! ;-)

[Karlos]

Wilse wrote:
@Karlos:

The other one, The Village Curry House, (barbecued lamb chops - mmmmmm..) doesn't allow it on the premises.

I really like Sanam. One of the reasons (as far as I know) they don't sell or allow alcohol is that they cater for the local asian population (which is majority muslim) rather than drunken students which frequent many of the other places along the mile. Consequently the emphasis is on the quality of the food, which has to be up to the standard expected by the locals and not simply ultra hot larger busters :-)

They do a chick pea salad that is one of the most interesting sundries ever. Refreshing, sweet, sour and hot in equal quantities :-D

Karlos wrote:

Wilse wrote:
@Karlos:

The other one, The Village Curry House, (barbecued lamb chops - mmmmmm..) doesn't allow it on the premises.

I really like Sanam. One of the reasons (as far as I know) they don't sell or allow alcohol is that they cater for the local asian population (which is majority muslim) rather than drunken students which frequent many of the other places along the mile. Consequently the emphasis is on the quality of the food, which has to be up to the standard expected by the locals and not simply ultra hot larger busters :-)

They do a chick pea salad that is one of the most interesting sundries ever. Refreshing, sweet, sour and hot in equal quantities :-D

My missus does the best chick pea salad you have ever tasted.  Genuine Indian recipe followed to the letter. Yummy. :-)