Birmingham - Recommendation?

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Tony S. wrote:
> I'll be on a 2 day training course in Brum next month, staying in a
> hotel near the city centre. I've never visited before & would welcome
> any recommendations for eating some Indian food on the evening I'm
> there. I'm on miserly expenses, so somewhere cheap would be nice.
> Balti, maybe?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -  Tony  -

Tony

Cheap is my middle name.  I used to eat in the most excellent Dilshad on Bristol Road in Selly Oak when I was a struggling actor (think Withnail and I) - usually after a few foaming ales down the road at The Varsity.
 Recent reports indicate it is still offers that same good VFM grub. IIRC, there's 10% discount for nurse and students - you can even try the 'I'm a student nurse, can I have 20% discount?' wheeze. I once did but they smiled and politely declined

Details here: http://www.itchybirmingham.co.uk/venues/544.html

Enjoy!

bignoseduglyguy

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Tony S. wrote:
> I'll be on a 2 day training course in Brum next month, staying in a
> hotel near the city centre. I've never visited before & would welcome
> any recommendations for eating some Indian food on the evening I'm
> there. I'm on miserly expenses, so somewhere cheap would be nice.
> Balti, maybe?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -  Tony  -

Years ago I used to stop off at a place called 'I am The King's Balti' It is (was?) in Ladypool Road. It was cheap and cheerful but the food was excellent. The whole road there was full of Indian shops and restaurants so there's plenty choice, seem to remember - M6, Junction 6, Queensway, through the centre until a crossroads with a McDonalds Drive-in on your right, turn left there, up a hill past the biggest Mosque you've ever seen, under a railway bridge and first right! The 'large' naan were the size of a tablecloth, buy beers in the off-sales next door. happy hunting

Willie B

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