I started off many years ago at places like the Karachi the Eastern,the sweet centre lumb lane and one just off manchester road that i cant remember the name of, almost always after a skinfull and always enjoying every visit.....later in life with family in tow we have tried the mumtaz,s and aargrah and the safron type eateries and TBH they are ok, as Puig-Aubert stated earlier in the post for special occasions or works outings ect ect...the food is usually good and authentic...but if i ask the wife and daughter where they want to go i get....

1st Samarkand.....Heckmondwike.
2nd Sweet lumb lane.
3rd Karachi.

I think mainly this is due to the fact if we go out to eat we, eat and leave, we dont go to make a night of it, unless it is an "occasion".I think this is the point.....Its like having a take-away but eating it in....

Incidentally, I went to the International last night and Mr Salty was cheffing.

I wish they'd sack him.

Get your blood pressure checked.

Mind you, if we get a sudden cold snap you'll probably not freeze.

Question for the 'more experienced' amongst you. I studied in Bradford 85-89 and was wondering if 'The Shimla' or 'The Rose of Kashmir' still existed on Gt Horton Rd near The Shearbridge Pub ? Kept me alive for 4 years they did. Also glad to read The Fighting Cock still revered.

Is that the place that has the banner on for a Leeds curry house (forget the name?) near Bombay Stores?

The former Shearbridge pub on the roundabout.

Aye. An ex-housemate was the last landlord before it was bought up by those people with the intent to turn it into a curry house. That was the last thing that happened to it as far as I know.

I've been there with one of my former shags and we both thought it were great. The Three Singhs there kept referring to us as Sahiba and Sahib respectively and we were both well impressed with that kind of bowing and fawning deference as the staff there all seem to know their place. No chips on their shoulders at all, if only other muslims were like that, eh?

The food was rubbish though and the chicken tikka wasn't even cooked properly. They eat with their hands in India as well. Or is that China? And you never know where their hands have been.

Prefer a Birds Eye boil-in-the-bag curry and rice any day of the week though.

Ok I'll take that as a no then.

Regarding the Shimla and the Shearbridge pub, I miss the one inbetween far more. The Shezan curry house was a very frequent haunt of mine when I was at Uni, as was the one just up the road that's not there any more. (The Shabina was it?)

Shezan used to do the best chicken kebabs in the world! We used to go there after Rios on a Wednesday when I was a student

Shimla do stonking chicken kebabs. I'm not sure keeping the mayonaisse they drench them in next to the kebab burners is the best idea they ever had like, but the price you pay for that is definitely worth it.