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DulwichFox

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Slocky Wrote:

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> Hope they take the opportunity to do something

> other than another identikit tandoori. Like the

> one next door. And the one opposite.


There are 8 'Curry Houses' on Lordship Lane / Grove Vale.

They are hardly 'identikit' tandooris. They are very different as curry lovers like the regulars

of the Curry Club would tell you. They all have their own favourite curry places that others are

not so keen on.


This will be the 4th ? rebirth of an Asian food outlet after previously being a Fish & Chip shop.

Eastern Eye, Cinnamon Club, Veer Zara being previous Asian restaurants.


No doubt Curry Club (including myself) will be among the first to try out this new place when it opens..


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> Yes the restaurants may well be a bit different

> and people have their preferences, but they are

> essentially offering the same menu straight out of

> 1985.


The Menu today in Indian restaurants is far more extensive than it was in 1985..


Fish & Chip shops are offering the same menu straight out of 1860...


Foxy

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Strange that Veer Zara and the one next door to it are almost always empty then.


Yes, they are pretty much all out of 1985 and Ive not been in one ED "curry house" that I didn't find disappointing. Fortunately, Ganapati is just down the road and I live in hope that VZ might relaunch along those lines.

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Slocky Wrote:

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> Strange that Veer Zara and the one next door to it

> are almost always empty then.

>

> Yes, they are pretty much all out of 1985 and Ive

> not been in one ED "curry house" that I didn't

> find disappointing. Fortunately, Ganapati is just

> down the road and I live in hope that VZ might

> relaunch along those lines.


The Curry Club has been going for 8 years and we go to a different L.L. Indian restaurant every month.

We have been to all of the Curry restaurants many many times.

Usually 6 - 12 of us. We are seldom disappointed.


We have been to Ganapati once maybe twice.. ?

There were 8 ish of us and certainly several of us were disappointed.

I'm a small eater but with a starter, popadoms main, rice, bread, and a dessert I wasn't full.


What ever the restaurant is called, supposedly it is to have a B.B.Q pit and serve cocktails.

So Indian food with a Turkish twist.. ?? Sound good to me.


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I have no problem with the kind of generic anglicised Indian food these restaurant along LL serve. In fact I often like it a lot. Just don't think we need so many, doing very similar food.


Ganapati - I remember going to the restaurant five or six years ago and feeling it was really mediocre. Tough meat, lacking flavour, and not worth the money. But since the takeaway opened we've been using it regularly and we've always loved it (and we're definitely not small eaters!). The menu does vary, maybe they don't always get it right?


Dishoom is fun, but I'd be happy with proper, simple home-cooked-style regional Indian or Bangladeshi food. If it was done well it would leave the other LL curry houses for dust.

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Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Ray,Ray,Ray. You really can't get the hang of this

> can you?

>

>

> ay80 Wrote:

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> > my regular curry house is jaflong and also they

> > recently made the restaurant BYOB which is

> great

> > because they don't charge for corkage



I thought it was a point worth making - I assumed they probably did charge for corkage.

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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Jeremy Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Yes the restaurants may well be a bit different

> > and people have their preferences, but they are

> > essentially offering the same menu straight out

> of

> > 1985.

>

> The Menu today in Indian restaurants is far more

> extensive than it was in 1985..

>

> Fish & Chip shops are offering the same menu

> straight out of 1860...

>

> Foxy


Not quite. Minus Victorian adulterated flour ...

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