Ahem! 14th Feb happens to be Valentine's Day. That's less than 3 weeks away. You might even be able to swing a return visit.

Went to the Punjab Sweet Centre on Thursday.

A mixed report.

The chapple kebabs were fecking gorgeous again - crammed full of chillis and coriander seeds. 10/10

Rotis were very nice. 8/10

The side salad I ordered was big and varied, if a little wet. 8/10

I had a lamb dish (whose name escapes me) but it was a 'traditional dish' with the lamb cooked on the bone. The lamb itself was lovely, it wasn't particularly spicy and what very little sauce there was was absolutely swimming in butter. That meant you just ate a pile of meat and because of the unavoidable butter it was lovely at first but left me feeling a bit queasy for a couple of hours after. 5/10

Our lass had a Punjabi chicken karahi (another one of the 'traditional' options). It was small pieces of chicken (many containing bones) and was again swimming in butter, so much so that it had a slightly cheesy smell and taste. It was so rich that she could only eat half. Because of that she'd give it 5/10.

There were ten others who ate there while we were there on Thursday dinner. None were whiteys. I did notice that most (and I noticed this before) ordered grilled meats and fish with a curry and salad almost as a side dish. The place does call itself a grill house too. Reckon I might give that a try next time.

Do you remember your very 1st curry.?

I always remember when i was about 12.. (33 years ago

) a curry house opened in oxford road Gomersal...it was the only one outside Bradford, i think it was called fizanns..i remember the smell from a mile radius was awesome and the kebabs were very very hot, but the curry....hhmmm lamb or chicken was always on the bone and always had a good half inch of butter or ghee which had separated nicely from the sludge in the bottom....ahhh the good old days..the taste of that curry was pure artery clogging bliss....could Fizann have moved to the Punjab Sweet Centre ?...im gonna have to try out those chapple kebabs one lunchtime and see .. now the diets over..

I can barely remember my last one....

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About every fortnight I take the family to Omars for a curry. Most weeks I have a curry at dinner time one day either at the Punjab, International or most likely Karachi. I never have any after effects following any of these visits - not even after Thursday's chapple kebabs.

What these events have in common is that I don't drink beer with them.

On that basis maybe its not the curry that causes us to pebble dash the porcelain but the beer and curry combined, but curry always gets the blame?

Yep... I thought it was fantastic at the time but it was e really.

It was called [iThe Islamabad[/i opposite Leeds University (main building where the steps are) on Woodhouse Lane. This will have been in the late 70's and I can even remember what I had.

Onion Bhaji starter.
Meat Curry... that's right... meat curry


Three chappatis.
My mate had tomato soup for his starter



Other places I went to not long after that were Nafees (at Woodhouse) who sold naan's which were microwaved pitta breads

and Chakwal a few doors up from there... Kaghan Valley and Rajput at Headingley (both utter crap) and Corner Cafe at Sheepscar. Then there was the Taj Mahal near the Hyde Park pub. Tripti in Leeds city centre between Vicar Lane and New Briggate wasn't too bad, nor was one place next door to that Bowls place outside Merrion Centre, but I wouldn't set foot in places like that these days. Then there was Naseeb's at Armley and another close by on Carr Crofts... oh dear... didn't mind at the time though as I was usually p1ssed anyway and starving



Went to a fair few in Nottingham when I was at Uni down there too (Dilshad at Hyson Green and one on Mansfield Road spring to mind) though none of them were much to write home about.

Also consumed a fair few Balti's in Birmingham (Balsall Heath area) in the early 80's in the days when nobody outside Birmingham had even heard of Balti's.

I'm going for a curry in Bradford tomorrow night (Monday) with a mate of mine..... not sure where yet though.

I'm going for a curry in Bradford tomorrow night (Monday) with a mate of mine..... not sure where yet though.

Try the sweet centre on lumb lane...done it a few times recently and is A1.


Not many whiteys about...no bar...just great food.

Very first curry, The Green Mask, Portsmouth (Southsea more accurately)1978, Bombay duck for starters (why can't you get that here?) Followed by mushroom madras, basically a bowl of brown lumpy soup with bigger black lumps floating around. I was hooked from then on.

1st Bradford curry was also 1978 in what is now Omar Kyams (can't remember what it was called then) this was after a night out at the Yarnspinners (any of you remember that one?) anyway the curry was basically a bowl of brown lumpy soup, but up here you got raita, what a revelation. All this was eaten with chapatis no knives, forks or spoons, no scented towels and no ill after effects.

Mum's Vesta out of a packet. MMmmmm........sultanas.

Yes, and I was hooked straight away. It was at the Silver Jubilee up Oak Lane. I remember nothing about it other than where it was though.

my first one was a take away from the khyber house in wyke.i had a meat curry, a kebab snadwich & a bag of bhaji's.my first sit down was at the kharachi ( or karrakeye as my brothers mrs calls it).i had a chicken madras with a side order of bhaji's.