Award winning restaurants in East Dulwich?

[Ohcecilia!]

I received a leaflet through the door from a local Indian restaurant on Lordship Lane. This restaurant claims to be:

Winner of the Good Food Award 2013

Winner of the Good Eating Guide 2013

Winner of the AAA Guide of Excellence 2013

Food hygiene rating of 4

I didn't know one restaurant could win so many awards! Albeit I haven't heard of half of these awards... But they wouldn't make them up I'm sure..

Do we have any other award winning restaurants in East Dulwich?

[pinecone]

The first of those "awards" appears to be a mere entry on what I call a "listing" site (not sure what official term the SEO folks would use)

For example, http://www.goodfoodaward.com/premises/veer-zara/

Can't find the others at the moment.

[Mick Mac]

Ignore it and do your own curry testing. Lots of debate on which is the best.

[pinecone]

Good idea. I will start at Surma and work down.

[Ohcecilia!]

I just can't see these awards online (aside from the paid listing on 'goodfoodawards')

I really hate to think that this restaurant has fabricated these awards. I may go in to ask. Not fair on other restaurants that play by the rules.

[Sue]

pinecone Wrote:

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> Good idea. I will start at Surma and work down.

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Isn't Surma the one that calls itself "award winning" because it was once (back in the day) voted "best Indian restaurant" in a poll on this very forum?

And still advertises itself as if that award was recent?

[85volga]

Well one thing for sure is that Surma certainly isn't winning any awards in the southwark food hygiene awards with a 2 out of 5 :(

Nor by the looks of it are the majority of the curry houses/eateries in lordship lane, would hate to think of the state of the produce prior to cooking may be in some places in the Lane based on the rating system below

http://ratings.food.gov.uk/authority-search/en-GB/%5E/se22/desc_rating/0/528/%5E/1/3/10

[smarties]

Yuck...Dulwich Tandoori (which I use often) has only got a 1 star for food hygiene...think it may be time to look elsewhere!!!

[llyamah]

Is this restaurant Veer Zaara? I received a leaflet through the door from them with the same claims. I'm sceptical about such awards. As a kid I used to work in a fish 'n' chip shop (not in this area). The owner used to tell me that he was often approached by companies offering to sell him these sorts of awards. I suspect that is what has happened here.

That said, I actually like Veer Zaara and think it is one of the better curry restaurants on the lane. I've seen a few negative comments about them on this forum but the comments are old. For me, Veer Zaara is underrated; the most overrated is Tandoori Nights (although from reading recent posts it seems that this place used to be really good but it has gone downhill). Surma is decent too.