If you want to come a few miles out of Chester, there is a restaurant called The Balti Cottage in Winsford.

I've been a regular customer of theirs since I moved up from Birmingham in the late 80's.  They opened a take away a few months after I arrived in the town.  They must have known I was moving there.  They opened a take away first then opened a restaurant next door.

Here is the link to their web site: http://www.balticottagewinsford.co.uk/

My favourite main course is the Balti Nobabi.  The addition of orange juice to the curry just makes it for me.

Hope you enjoy it.

As I work away from home, I decided to buy a flat.  As a result, I'm now, at the age of 58, starting to learn to cook.  The problem is my wife is an excellent cook and although she has never stopped me cooking, I've always felt intimidated.  I liken it to learning to paint when you are given a painting set and setting out - circle for a head, stick body, two sticks for legs, two for arms, etc., whilst the wife is painting a Michelangelo next to me.

So, as a result, as I'm living alone I feel quite liberated and want to cook my favourite meals - curries.  I've been eating curry since I was four, as I was the youngest of 4 and my sister had married a Pakistani.  As a result, I was eating this food when everyone was saying that garlic was 'foreign muck' and yoghurt was ordered from the milkman, who didn't understand what it was.

Anyway, enough waffle.  I'm glad to be here and look forward to further experimentation.