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Pakistani food FTW! Nihari!

Goan food can be excellent.

Pakistani food FTW! Nihari!

My mum makes the best Nihari.

For the 2nd best Nihari try Tayyab's on Fieldgate Street. Tuesday's special of the day is Nihari.

Funny you should mention that, a guy at my work was telling me about that yesterday.

Lahore off Commercial Road only serves it Wed-Sun because it cooks for 2 days!

talk of jalfrezi et al does nothing for me

lahore kebab house makes my mouth flood with saliva just thinking about grilled lamb chops, butter chicken, roti w extra ghee etc

one of my spots for food nirvana!

Lamb chops FTW! Great place

Lahore off Commercial Road

Highly recommended, as is the Tooting one

Lahore Kebab House is very good, but Tayyab's is definitely better. LKH appearance is finally acceptable too. Over 10 years ago that place used to be a shit hole. A proper shit hole, but the food was and still is top notch. The thing was, if you didn't know the food was good you would have run a mile based on the appearance.

Hot Stuff in Vauxhall is good too. They'll make you a naan any size, my 6'7" mate had a naan brought out to him the size of his torso. It's really small in there though and it's usually busy, a couple got pissed off because they had to queue up instead of sitting down at the table that was being used to hold my mate's giant naan.

mmm I love jalfrezi, madras and vindaloo are also favourites.

bhindi bhaji as a side dish, with sag aloo.....peshwari naan......god yes.

James, the meaning of 'having favourites' is to like some things better than others.

You can't like everything and be allowed to speak of 'favourites'. ;)

Tayyab's is the best I've patronised, although that pink one in Stoke Newington is very very good, quite dry, lots of fish (it's Keralan). I'm going there tonight in fact.

If you HAVE to eat on Brick Lane, I'd always choose Chutney's. It's not perfect, but the prices are low and the food is good, well spiced and heated. Sweet peshwari nans too.

I mean, that's if you HAVE to eat curry in London...

Isn't Chutneys the one that was on Kitchen Investigators or whatever it was called where they were secretly filmed serving up canned curries?

TBH, I've eaten in half a dozen of those brick lane joints and cannot tell the difference.

Tayyab's is the best I've patronised, although that pink one in Stoke Newington is very very good, quite dry, lots of fish (it's Keralan). I'm going there tonight in fact.

RASA Travancore?

Try RASA N16 across the way--it's the original, vegetarian one before he started to sell out with fish and meat restaurants. I still love it big time even though I've eaten there more often than I can count since 1996.

Dunno, but it's the only one that is in any way discernable from the rest of them. I'll check it out sometime, but for me, no meat = no way.

Curry houses on Brick Lane are shit, FACT! Never had a good one

I had a good curry on Brick Lane once, I was out with some friends walking down Brick Lane and one of the guys who try and entice you in to their restaurant used the line, "Best curry house on Brick Lane!" So I said that it was impossible for him to be impartial because he worked for the curry house he was proclaiming was the best. He looked confused so in my drunken stupor I sang the guy a really old Bollywood song I like. He laughed and said we could eat for cheap, we hadn't actually intended to eat anything but I managed to haggle him down to 1 starter, 1 main course, and 1 bottle of Cobra for £5 each. It was a good curry purely because it was so cheap.

No curry house will ever beat I Am The King Of Balti (actual name) on the Ladypool Road in Brum. It's fairly generic, but it was my first, and you never forget your first.

Dunno, but it's the only one that is in any way discernable from the rest of them. I'll check it out sometime, but for me, no meat = no way.

You clearly haven't eaten at RASA N16 yet. :)

I live near the Al Amin on Cambridge Heath Rd, and have to say their food is excellent.
http://www.london-eating.co.uk/549.htm
http://www.fluidfoundation.com/Al_Amin_E2.Restaurant

This reminds of the forum early days, when every single thread would descend into talk about food/sweets/biscuits and booze.

Ahhh.

have some Redskins

Want!

No curry house will ever beat I Am The King Of Balti (actual name) on the Ladypool Road in Brum.

• 1 million. It wasn't my first and I still agree.
  
  

I Am The King Of Baltis surely up there for best ever restaurant name.

Is there a curry appreciation thread yet?

This is it mate... Theres not much else of use in here - other than the Greek/Musicals puns.

this'll do CJ, it'll throw the demographic bit a proper wobbly...

oh yeah +1ing the Commercial Road Lahore Kebab too, one of the few places good and cheap to eat this kind of stuff in London.

Haven't eaten a great meal ever on Brick Lane, but there's a place (I think it's the Aladdin) that Prince Charles once namechecked in a radio interview years and years ago.. they taped it and will happily get the tape player out and play the extract over the system at the restaurant for you on request, which has got to be worth the price of a meal (which isn't too bad).....

Ganapati behind Peckham Rye train station is pretty amazing.. The head chef is an English lady who moved to India years ago and married an Indian man. She learnt how to cook from his mother/aunts/etc and came back here with him to start a restaurant. It's a bit more up market than your average Indian restaurant though.

The Safa on Camberwell green is also very nice, decent value and they even deliver which surprised me.

Dulwich Tandoori is probably the one I'd go to most though.. The service is great and the food is generally very solid. They even have an all you can eat buffet on sundays for £7 I think