Topic: Drat and Double Drat

[Gav Iscon]

I've been gently coaxed out of retirement by a few people I know to do some work for them. Anyway, I've just spent a couple of days in London and we were working at Spitalfields market and just before 4pm a bloke came into the shop and said if thats your van you better move it as the camera turns round at 4 and you'll get a ticket so i jumped in the van drove a couple of streets away and parked at a meter and low and behold when i got out and looked around I was on Brick Lane not previously having a clue where it was beforehand. The bad thing about it was that i never got to sample any of the establishments as the lad I was with didn't do curries. I can't believe I was so close but yet so far. Its now on the cards though for next time I'm there with hopefully appropriate personnel. 

Any recommendations as they all seem to be curry house of the year?

[tempest63]

Sweet and spicy was always a great lunchtime restaurant but nose dived when lots of other white people started eating in there, ...and they bought matching tables. It is on a junction on the opposite side of the road from the nick.

Being more of a "trad" I tended to use the places frequented by the locals rather than the BIR type restaurant. Since Saliques closed I found the BIR's are all pretty much of a muchness.

If you fancy a treat, park near Aldgate and go to Tayyabs in Fieldgate Street, but then hit the grocers opposite the Mosque at the Hanbury Street junction and stock up with all manner of goodies.

T63

[tempest63]

If you fancy a treat, park near Aldgate and go to Tayyabs in Fieldgate Street, but then hit the grocers opposite the Mosque at the Hanbury Street junction and stock up with all manner of goodies.

Travel a bit further on into Commercial Road and seek out one of the Lahore restaurants, I think there are still two operating down that way, and they are also great. In fact any of the eateries springing up to serve the locals near the Mosque are generally good value and great food, just not BIR.

The menus, if one exists, will have chicken or lamb curry, maybe with spinach or potatoes but don't expect to see the likes of Korma, madras and vindaloo. They don't exist in these trad places.