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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2013, 09:06 PM »
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Bb, I was referring to the cafe in small heath

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Ha ha! Quality.  No problem.

Mishti Desh. 546 Coventry Road. B10 0UN.  Well worth a visit if you're in Birmingham.  Also, just over the road is the Sonali supermarket, one of the biggest and best Bengali foods outlets in the West Midlands.

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2013, 09:26 PM »
...The chef explained that all the mains were brought in ready-made (in portions) from a large hub in another city, and just re-heated in the micro...

Sounds like a shocker to me, Bob!  :o

It is I suppose.  You couldn't make it up. But best to keep stum.  A while back ol' Dan voiced a few choice comments about another restaurant chain in Birmingham; the results was:

http://www.catererandhotelkeeper.co.uk/articles/22/6/2012/344172/birmingham-restaurant-begins-legal-action-against-blogger.htm

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #12 on: June 12, 2013, 09:46 PM »
...best to keep stum...

You're quite right, Bob. As my old Mum used to say, "Good folks are scarce!"

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #13 on: June 12, 2013, 09:52 PM »
Waiter served lamb samosa, with a fine salad including black olives.

Black olives in a BIR...do me a favour!  ::)

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Came to pay up.  The bill was 85 p.  I'll be going back there!

And then you woke up...!  ::)
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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2013, 10:26 PM »
Waiter served lamb samosa, with a fine salad including black olives.

Black olives in a BIR...do me a favour!  ::)

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Came to pay up.  The bill was 85 p.  I'll be going back there!

And then you woke up...!  ::)
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Challenge accepted.  I am willing to wager 1 pounds stirling, for photographic evidence of the olives, including the bill, tomorrow.

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2013, 03:02 PM »
Challenge accepted.  I am willing to wager 1 pounds stirling, for photographic evidence of the olives, including the bill, tomorrow.

Rob, I wasn't questioning the veracity of your statement I was bemoaning the use of black olives in any form of BIR cuisine.  ;)

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2013, 04:00 PM »
Challenge accepted.  I am willing to wager 1 pounds stirling, for photographic evidence of the olives, including the bill, tomorrow.

Rob, I wasn't questioning the veracity of your statement I was bemoaning the use of black olives in any form of BIR cuisine.  ;)

Not sure where the olives came from.  The waiter might have picked a few up for me from the salad bar they have.  Also do a Russian salad apparently.  Defo a proper BIR place this though.  Full range of dishes and a lot more. Going over tomorrow for lunch.  Can't make up my mind what to have.  Fancy the Bangladeshi fish dishes, but the Friday buffet menu is also looking mighty tempting:

http://mishtidesh.co.uk/menu/bangladeshispecialfishdishes.html

http://mishtidesh.co.uk/buffet.html

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2013, 05:19 PM »
I wasn't questioning the veracity of your statement I was bemoaning the use of black olives in any form of BIR cuisine.  ;)
Sanjeev Kapoor would appear to be in favour.
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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #18 on: June 14, 2013, 10:34 AM »
I wasn't questioning the veracity of your statement I was bemoaning the use of black olives in any form of BIR cuisine.  ;)
Sanjeev Kapoor would appear to be in favour.
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Didn't even look at it Phil. I'm talking traditional, old-fashioned BIR, not this new-fangled crap you see in some "BIRs" nowadays.

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Re: Hearsay, but local standards may well be dropping
« Reply #19 on: June 14, 2013, 10:44 AM »
Didn't even look at it Phil.

So I guess you're the guy in the middle then, Santa ('though you probably admire the one on the left as well ...)

 

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