bir chef offers lessons. in sussex area. who is interested?

[Derek Dansak]

lessons will be around 20 - 25 pounds per hour each. minimum of 5 or 6 people per session. they are willing to teach. i will confirm if the lesson will be purely madras orientated bir syleee !. i am very confident they will teach madras if thats what we all want. they need more income i suspect. its a friendly non formal restaurant. mondays or wednesday is likely to be the day for lessons. who is interested?

[Derek Dansak]

just thought, if saturday morning or afternoon would be easier let me know and i can discuss with them.

[George]

Sounds good but:

1. Is the normal output of the place a cut above average? If many of us agree we can prepare dishes which are better than the current (2009) sad average BIR standard, then it only seems worth going to a teacher who is much better than average and who bridges the 'missing 5%' taste gap. Does this place fit the bill?

2. Will we be able to draw up a 'contract' or something to help guarantee that he really is showing us the real thing, rather than some dumbed-down version, especially spoiled for our lessson? On the one hand, we wouldn't want to be too heavy and demanding but we'd need to make sure it isn't another disappointment. If the Brick Lane demos, which a few members went to, were all they'd promised to be, then we'd have had most of our questions answered. But it sounds like they didn't deliver.

[JerryM]

DD,

have mulled this (and the Bristol option) over quite a bit. the distance is too far for me (hassle & cost).

i also had to put into the equation that my currying has come on quite a bit in the last 6 mths. i no longer feel i have the same need. expanding my No off "yellow sticky" recipe sheets through recipe refinement is my No1. i feel i can enjoy doing this myself over time.

many thanks for making the effort.

best wishes

[Yousef]

Yes i am interested and will attend.
Tell me the date and location so i can book time off work.

Wednesday would be good, Saturday even better.
I will do a full report on the forum.

Its time to get this thing solved.

Stew

[rallim]

I would love to go but it's a long flight from Oz for a lesson....unless there's a bevvy after it  ;D

Sounds good tho'

[Derek Dansak]

hi, we still need a few more people. anyone else interested.

[Cory Ander]

Sounds like an opportunity not to be missed to me.....

...I know SnS was trying to organise something similar, with a similarly poor response, which is a real shame, I feel, if members are actually serious about cooking decent BIR curries....

...How many takers do you have so far DD...and how many do you need (minimum)?  I'd like to think that, out of nearly 10,000 members, you could easily get the minimum number! 

PS: I'm currently living in Australia too, otherwise I'd certainly be accepting your (and SnS's) offer

[parker21]

hi dd i may be interested. where in sussex? as i am not too far from east sussex.
regards
gary

[adriandavidb]

I'm interested, Surrey based close to M25 J8, so most of Sussex in easy reach!  Where abouts is it?