Curry's gone down hill ?

I am aware of the Balti's origins, and the seemingly ubiquitous (and generally turgid) CTM hence the quotes around 'authentic'

The best curries I caan remember having were from a small cluster of restaurants in Bristol (over 20 years ago now!)

Having said that we do have one decent Tandoori restaurant locally run by the same family for the last 20 years . We used to live a couple of doors up from the owners and still get excellent food and service there.

IMHO their are no good curries, either take away or sit in, and especially supermarket ones, anywhere to the south of Yorkshire. Greatest curry I ever had was in Inverness. Starters, sundries, Main meal and sweets were brilliant. Unfortunately I can't recall the name of the restaurant.

Yours in Music

Syd

Many a good curry to be had in Glasgow !!

I'd say I've never had a good curry from a supermarket. Not that they were all bad, but not good either.

As for restaurants it depends on the type:

Curry houses - frequented by people before, during or after a piss-up and found everywhere across britain. Theyre all naff, but thats to miss the point of them.

Sweet centre type places, usually lots of asians there too, find them in Bradford ('Sweet Centre' on Lumb Lane), Leicester, Birmingham, London's East End. This is the place to go if your sober and want a regular decent curry, usually dont cost much more than curry houses either. I call 'em sweet centre places, as often they also sell asian sweets out front.

Proper indian resaurants: If you really want the best currys. Here the dishes are individually prepared, in the above two examples most of the time all the curries are prepared from the same basic masala (curry sauce) they just add a bit of yoghurt/cream, decorate with a few extra peppers or bang it into a balti dish to get the variations. But if you go to a proper restaurant they will serve you up with real jalfrezis that dont taste like masalaa. E.g. Gaylord's in Manchester, Star of India in London.

But if you really want the best curry, then look into a cook book and make your own or better still just ask an asian person to tell you how to make it!

Glasgow is pretty poor for good curries, the best place being Mother India (they can be a bit inconsistent, though). Nearly all of the other places just do the universal sauce type of dish - I suppose that some of them are quite good at it (Shimla Pinks, the Ashoka etc) but it just doesn't compare to the type of curry you can get at, say, Suruchi in Edinburgh. They do proper, regional, Indian cuisine.