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Manchester curry - massive assistance required
Posted by el toro calvo grande on 4 April 2011 - 3:20pm.
The sister of a work colleague is looking for a good city centre curry house/Indian restaurant in Manchester.
I'm sure you Northern boys will be able to throw a few suggestions my way.
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Anywhere along
The Curry Mile should do the trick
http://www.restaurantsofmanchester.com/rusholme.htm
City centre
The Curry Mile is usually recommended but that is a bit out of the city centre. If your friend wants to stay more central then I had a good one at East Z East on Princess Street, underneath the Ibis hotel. I believe they have another branch on Deansgate which is even more central, but I can't speak for that.
There's Akbars
Home of enormous naan breads, down on Liverpool Road near the Museum of Science & Industry.
The other East Z East is on Blackfriars Bridge, just off Deansgate, near the Renaissance hotel / MEN Arena.
One of my colleagues swears by Kabana which is in the Northern Quarter, just off Tib Street, close to Afflecks. I've never been in as the outside looks horrendous - a fact he admits - but he says the food is stunning.
Akbars
is good - it's true. Kabana? Really? Who'da thunk it?
Aahh.. Rusholme.
I used to live at Rusholme place at the northernmost end of The Mile. We'd come out of The Whitty (great juicer over the road) and have to suffer fantastic smells. Sometimes we'd have the willpower not to give in. But not very often.
The kebabs at the Tandoori Kitchen and the Rusholme Chippy were divine.
The Plaza
I lived in Manchester from 1981 to 1985, including a spell in Rusholme/Moss Side. At that time, the roughest, most infamous curry house in the city was the Plaza, on Upper Brook Street.
The birianis there took no prisoners at all - absolutely LETHAL. Like spooning molten lava down your throat. I suffered appallingly every time I visited, but somehow, I kept coming back for more. Back to its harsh white lighting, its lino floor, it's pay-before-you-eat policy and its amusing menu with levels of hotness for the biriani sauce (The Killer, The Suicide, etc.). There were so many urbans myths and apocryphal stories about the Plaza. Some of them may even have been true.
And, well, obviously, don't go looking for it. It's not there any more.
Legendary..
As students, we were told by a pathology lecturer that there was, in a jar in the University Of Manchester Medical School pathology museum, the resected pharynx of a chap who drank a neat bowl of Plaza Charlie Special sauce and was rushed in with chemical burns which necessitated the surgical removal of a large chunk of his upper digestive tract. At the time there was a fair amount of "Chinny reck-on.. Ooh Jimmy Hill" going on, but he swore it was true.
I only went there once with my mate Arnie who liked his food HOT. We took a photo as Arnie took a forkful of his Suicide, Goodbye or whatever it was. He was clutching his throat with beads of perspiration bursting out on his forehead.
Someone told some good Plaza tales at the last Mingle, I seem to remember.
Zouk, just off Oxford Road
near the BBC. Curry enormodome. Delicious food but more contemporary than your average curry house, and very reasonable. they also do grills. I recommend the tandoori fish and the Zouk Steak.
Hunters, the Northern Quarter
Whet your whistle in the Hare and Hounds on Shudehill then head for the formica-topped heaven that is Hunters. It's an Asian transport caff but the Three & Rice is terrific value as are the game curries.