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As much as our expectations have changed, many providers have raised the bar. The many decent Mexicans / South American eateries in London just highlighted how bad that one was.


right I'm off to www.poncho8.com for lunch =)




Jeremy Wrote:

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> The Mexican place is a great example of how our

> expectations have changes in recent years.

>

> You could probably say the same about some of the

> Indian restaurants, but even so, we don't need

> another Indian restaurant in East Dulwich (anyway,

> I'm unashamedly fond of the trad british curry

> house).

Herroeeeey Wrote:

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> As much as our expectations have changed, many

> providers have raised the bar. The many decent

> Mexicans / South American eateries in London just

> highlighted how bad that one was.


Yep, that's basically what I meant.

Being a Brummie, I'd be delighted to see a 'proper' Balti house' in ED. Having said that I'm yet to find one outside of the Balsall Heath area of Birmingham that is remotely authentic.

Balti cuisine became known throughout the UK during the 1990s, after initial growth in Birmingham since the 1980s. One school of thought states that name 'Balti' for food may reflect the fact that an ethnic group living in that area of north Pakistan are called Balti. Alternatively, 'Balti' food is named after the pot in which it is cooked. That origin of the word is to do with the Urdu and Hindi word balty - "Balty, s. Hin. balti, which means "bucket." This is the Port. balde."[2] As mentioned in the late nineteenth century in Hobson-Jobson, the term 'balti' refers to the steel or iron pot in which the food is cooked or served, taken from the word 'balti', which is derived from the Portuguese word 'balde', meaning bucket/pail, which was taken to India by the Portuguese on their seafaring enterprises in late fifteenth century. Therefore, originally, the word 'Balti' refers to a bucket, then evolving to its meaning as a cooking pot.

If you can replicate it good luck, but it's a very different taste to the baltis available down here in general ( satarge in Covent Garden excluded) I think it would be a very risky venture.

A balti, whether in Brum or in the Black Country (far superior) is cheap. It doesnt have a licence, so you bring your own bottle and they serve table nans i.e. a nan the size of a duvet for all to share.


Nontheless, lot another curry restaurant. Be original and see some success.

If it were true (the balti house) i would be in favour of it in the belief that the best would survive and the substandard go under - just as I am excited about the new Turkish place opening on the site of Dos Amigos to rival the excellent Hisar. If it was indeed like the old-style curry cafes of the midlands (i.e. unlicensed. byob) that would be even better.

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