Sylhet Balti is a small Bangladeshi takeaway situated off clapgate lane, goose green. The menu is…read morelarge and reasonably priced; there are a number of chef specials in addition to the expected dishes. The Staff are helpful and friendly, service is quick. A special mention must go to the chicken tikka sandwich - delicious :-) There is parking at the back or on clapgate lane itself.

Bay of Bengal, as the name suggests, specialises in Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine which you can…read moreenjoy in the comfort of their restaurant or, if you so wish, in the comfort of your own home as they offer a takeaway menu as well as a restaurant menu. The choice of dishes is pretty large and varied, with the menu including a useful selection of chef's recommended dishes which are especially tasty, spicy and full of flavour. The dishes themselves are nothing particularly different from a normal Indian restaurant menu, but it is all made to a fairly high quality and can be enjoyed in a restaurant which is nicely decorated and set out. The staff are attentive and knowledgeable, helping you to choose a dish to suit your palate (as well as warning you off any very spicy dishes) and ensuring you to have a lovely dining experience whilst in their company. A very pleasant place to go if you fancy an Indian meal in a restaurant environment.

Whilst visiting a nearby medical establishment this place was reccomended by a couple of the staff…read morethere. They were right on the money and I'm grateful to the for pointing the place out. The interior is nothing exceptional, standard 'curry house' kind of theme but its clean and inviting. The staff received me warmly and were pleasant and polite throughout. I had chicken Madras with plain rice, Garlic Naan and Poppadoms. The food was beautiful, the Madrass was just how I like it, just hot enough and not enough to enduce dehydration! the Naan was fresh and flavourful and was a great accompanyment. With a couple of Cokes the bill came to around £15, which I think was pretty reasonable.

The award winning Bengal Dynasty serves a vast array of mouthwatering Bangladeshi and Indian…read morecuisine. They operate a take away service but also have a huge restaurant which caters for everything from a romantic meal for two (particularly on Valentines Day) to wedding receptions and corporate events. Bengal Dynasty is unusual in that your order is taken in the brightly lit waiting area prior to you being seated at your table. The menu is enormouos and the food is out of this world, particularly the curried salmon. Poppadoms come with a five dip selection as standard and the protions are alway generous. Its worth calling before you go to make sure they aren't fully booked. During January and February 2009 they have a selection of promotions which include free wine and buy one get one free offers.

Fabulous Indian restaurant…read more Have been going here for years adn so have my parents. Was recently refurbished, so looks very nice. atmosphere nice & everyone very helpful & friendly. Only bad point - is - I have definitely noticed the prices getting higher, and portions getting smaller. for a takeaway for 3 people cost me nearly £40! quite high end, when you think its not in a classy city and we are in a credit crunch. Have started going elsewhere - but if you have the dosh and want a nice family meal out - top marks ! need to mention tiny weeny rubbish car park. very tight indeed and only holds about 8 cars. **

One of my favourite places to eat curry is at Grameen Khana on Ladypool Road…read more The food is consistently good and they offer a range of Bangladeshi dishes that I haven't seem in other restaurants. Chot Poti is a great vegetarian starter dish (although you'll be struggling to eat all of your main course after). It's a chick pea dish with plenty of chilli and toped with crispy onions and egg. The Desi roast is excellent too; the chicken just falls off the bone. The selection of main courses is great. The specials offer something a little different Shobji Chicken and the Chicken Sashlick Bhuna are great as is the Grameen Special Chicken Balti. Our favourite lamb dish is the Haleem which is like a stew with really soft slow-cooked lamb. You can bring your own drinks and there is an off-license right next door. The Decor is contemporary and spotlessly clean. There is an indoor waterfall and a TV that is usually showing a Bollywood film but without sound. The staff are generally pleasant and efficient. They have a remote control buzzer contraption on the table so you can request service, drinks (non alcoholic) or your bill.

Grameen Khana stands out as a relatively new addition to the Ladypool and let's face it, if you're…read morea curry house on the Ladypool Road standing out is an important part of distinguishing yourself from the many curry houses on offer. Grameen is distincive with it's brightly lit green livery and super fancy water features, giving it a very modern and luxurious appearance. Turns out the place is Bangladeshi and so searching for a bit of authenticity I ordered from the fish menu. After the waiter corrected me on my Bangladeshi pronounciation and warned that this particular dish contained bones, I had the option of going for a more familair choice but stuck to my guns and went with the fish dish, much to the combined admiration and consternation of my fellow diners. A large TV played on the back wall be it muted and the water feature really was quite a novel touch which did attract our eye whilst waiting for our food. The fish dish arrived and was tasty and well marinated, working through the bones, I enjoyed the fleshy bits and we all traded dishes to compliment or query each others choices. What we did notice was that a large Bangladeshi family had take the table at the rear and this was another endorsement of Grameen Khana along with the tasty grub.

I'm entertaining a touring Canadian band and we're sat outside The Hare & Hounds having a beer. We…read moretalk about getting some food before the show and we get onto the subject of Asian food. 'We know the best curry restaurant outside of Asia', one of them proclaims, 'Its in Vancouver.' I point at Sylhet Spice cuisine over the road and say 'THAT'S the best curry restaurant outside of Asia'. The gauntlet having been throw down, we cross the road and enter in... Sat inside, the ambiance is nice. Yes, 'nice'. There is high-end dining furniture and a waterfall-down-a-mirror feature. The menu is vast, and detailed. The style of cooking here is from the Sylhet region in the North East of Bangladesh, so its not surprising that at this restaurant the chef performs magic dishes with fish. They have some dishes here that I have never seen before in any restaurant, and I could happily eat the lot. I'm tempted by Salmon Tarkari, but instead I order Lamb Jal-Zala. It is an extremely hot dish, but I'm not eating it as a kind of macho prove-myself exercise. This dish is not only very, very hot, but has some complex tastes in it; after the initial shock of the first hot mouth full, the palate adjusts and the chilli having dilated the taste buds, all the glorious complexities of the carefully blended spices and meat are experienced. I'm sandwiching meat between buttery, fluffy nan bread and mopping the sauce with the same. My face is soaking. I am in ecstasy. My guests are halfway thorough their meal and looking sheepish and satisfied. They agree that its a close call as the whether their Vancouver eatery is the superior one or their newly-found Bangladeshi paradise. When I find myself in Vancouver next, we'll be up for round two...

I have been visiting Sylhet Spice quite a lot over the last year. Especially as I have managed to…read moreconvince the rest of my colleagues in my department, for us to have our end of term meals here! And they have all fallen in love with this curry house too. The menu is vast with many speciality dishes, which I am always a fan of, to be able to try something orginal and special to the restuarant. Food is always of a high standard and always have a great meal, along with my friends, we don't have any complaints. On my last visit, I had the Shobzi Bihari which is a North Indian dish, full of spice and flavour, which I recomend to anyone. To accompany this rich main dish, I had the Saag and Garlic fried rice which was a delight and I have never had this combination in rice before. My only downside is that I find the service a bit lacking every time I have visited..but not enough for me to take off a star. Sylhet Spice would be in my favourite Indians in Birmingham!

I am not trying to Curry your favour by writing this, but even as a Liverpool fan, I do love…read moreManchester. I used to live there, I love it a lot more than London for example. I got racially abused a hell of a lot in Manchester but it still has a lot more life to it than most places I've ever been. One of the all-time highlights of not just Manchester, but the whole UK, is Curry Mile. It doesn't get much better. Some of the best curries in town, all kinds of wonderful South Asian, Middle Eastern, you name it, all sorts of food that will blow your mind. I've been coming here since I was little. It's a rough area but so is your nether region when unshaved. So my highlight will always be Rusholme Chippy, which is not so much a chippy but a kebab house, featuring the best Kobedeh Kebab in the entire world that I've ever had. Open late and a must-try.

Most cities offer a Chinatown. Some have a Little Italy. There are Jewish quarters, Polish…read moreneighbourhoods and other such places of cultured cuisine knocking around all over the UK. But how many of them have an entire mile dedicated to Indian food? Rusholme's section of Wilmslow Road is where you'll find a vast array of curry houses hotly anticipating your custom, as well as the obligatory variety of off-licenses due to the Bring Your Own Booze policy of many of the restaurants... Then, there's that which the uninitiated won't have heard of - the many Indian sweet shops and ice cream stops ideally placed for that one wafer thin mint that'll nickname you Mr Creosote after filling your belly with more spicy sauces than are humanly healthy. If you have relatives or friends visiting and they like it hot, a visit here is a must. At first, it's completely mind-boggling. What differentiates one curry house from the next? Don't they all serve the same food? Well, this is where Yelp does the hard work for you - we're here to Yelp you after all. Take the ones you're interested in. Maybe they offer something a little different? Sri Lankan cuisine, a charcoal pit, Pakistani, Punjab, Afghan... then search them in Yelp and see what we have to say about them. Heck, we're like one of those price comparison websites. We're your middleman. We went to the bad ones when we were students, so you don't have to. The Curry Mile also has a policy somewhat alien to the rest of the UK. Rusholmers live like New Yorkers. If you want curry at 4am, you can get curry at 4am. A lot of these places stay open well into the wee small hours and then some. Everyone should visit here at least once. It's bright and shiny enough for tourists, authentic enough for foodies, cheap enough for students, lively enough for groups and different enough for just about every taste. Definitely put this on your to-do list if you're new to the great city of Manchester.

My general understanding of the word 'Bengal' is that it is a region in India as well as a type of…read moretiger. Now I'm pretty sure this place doesn't specialise in grilled tiger, so I think it's safe to say their name is a nod to its Indian roots and that there is no need to get on the phone to the RSPCA just yet. Spice of Bengal in Ainsdale specialises in Indian and Bangladeshi dishes available either in a restaurant setting or to order and take away. Their takeaway menu is a bit sparse compared to the restaurant menu which is to be expected, but their eat-in menu is impressively extensive. Helpfully, there is also a section which breaks down what each type of curry contains and how spicy each one is, for all the curry virgins and n00bs amongst you. When I last visited I went for the lamb tikka chilli Bengal curry which, as you can imagine, was rather spicy. Despite how hot it was, it was still delicious as it managed to negotiate the fine line between being too mild and so hot it takes off several layers of your tongue. The restaurant is fairly pleasantly decorated and has a lovely dining atmosphere, with the staff being friendly and attentive at all times. If you're ever in the area, I recommend trying the Spice on offer here.

Wanted to add a bit of spice to my life, so I tried the Spice of Bengal. Being new to indian food,…read moreI found ordering for the first time to be a bit difficult. Fortunately the menu did its best to guide me in the ways of the Spice and helped me to make an excellent choice. The waiter even asked if I wanted my food more, or less, spicy. I was waited on very graciously and I have no complaints at all about the place. Best restaurant I have been to in a few years.

Lovely place. Little chilly last night Fast service & lovely…read morefood.. Very Friendly staff too..

The Bengal Dysentry (sorry but they are asking for that) is a very popular Indian restaurant in…read moreLlandudno. This is perhaps because it's the only Indian restaurant in Llandudno, at least it's the only one I can think of. It also helps that it's within about five minutes walk of most of the main nightspots in the town. It's a decent and long established place with a very good reputation and serves good quality food at reasonable prices. It does get busy which helps to create a good atmosphere (most of the time at least) and it's worth a try if you can get a table.

I've had a few lovely evenings at Asha Balti House. The menu…read moreis extensive and the food has always been really nice and well cooked. The staff are very welcoming and friendly and the service has always been excellent. I've also sampled the food as a take-away and it was of the same high-quality as the restaurant. Definitely not to be missed.

We'd finished our hike on the Llanberis path to the top of Snowdon (3100 feet up, then 3100 feet…read moredown) and were pretty hungry. I remembered that our hosts at Tan Dinas Country House in Betws-y-Coed recommended Ty Balti House, so we headed there. Llanrwst is a working town and interesting to us because of our interest in Wales and the Welsh. The town is quite different from Betws-y-Coed, very tourist-oriented, but Llanrewst is interesting in it's own way. Somehow Llanwrst lucked out over Betws and has a fantastic Indian restaurant featuring Balti-style (Bangladeshi) cooking. Their focus is their tandoori oven and meat dishes, including lamb. We're fishaterians though but we found plenty to eat there too. We had tandoori salmon, mattar paneer, dhal and rice. Asha Balti has a full bar. A G&T was never more welcome. The food was excellent (really, not just because we were hungry!), the staff was friendly and helpful. Dinner was one of our best meals during our two week trip to Wales. It's only a few miles to the restaurant from Betws-y-Coed, so head to Llanwrst if you're in the mood for some great Indian food.