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In article , Pete Fenelon
Someone wrote:

>Some good stuff up there, particularly the Diwana Bhel Poori house.

Is that on Whitfield Street? If so, I was there a few weeks back and had one of the worst meals I can remember in recent years (or was it Diwam Mogol?)

>I keep hearing that for a cheap Indian meal Masala Zone down in Soho is
>pretty good- but haven't yet checked it out. Very cheap Thalis
>apparently. Anyone been?

Not to Masala Zone, but I've been to Mela on Shaftesbury Avenue - very good country style cooking and a website with menus and pics of some of the dishes (I've reviewed it on congokid.com).

To the OP - Brick Lane isn't that far away from the centre of town and has a big choice. Mine would be Cafe Naz.

However, for my money at the cheap end, I've not had better than New Tayyab's in Fieldgate Street, off the Whitechapel Road. The place is unlicensed and the food is v hot, but also good and cheap. I've reviewed it, too.

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 (martin) wrote in

> For what it's worth i used to live practivally next door to Tayyabs
> and ate there at least three or four times a week for a year (the food
> is incredible). I was never made ill (I left the area a year ago).
> Recommend it highly. Also sweet and spicy and gram bangla, both on
> Brick lane.

I'm not the most adventurous of curry-eaters, but I had a very simple take- away chicken dish from sweet and spicy in Brick Lane that was wrapped in a paratha (if I've got my terminology right!) that was one of the most fragrant, tasty things I've had from a take-away. Full of different flavours.

Richard

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sweet and spicy is fantastic - probably the best place to eat in brick lane, amazing home cooked food....the owner is a former pakistani wrestler and theres loads of great wrestling pictures on the walls... tayyabs has gone down the tubes - of course i am deliberately trying to ruin their reputation - i was as sick as a dog after eating there TWICE, and so were an entire family i recommended it to! And this is after you left the area... i would like this advice from other people, and i am sure other people would like it from me i hope tayyabs goes bust if its going to serve dirty food to a paying public... you have seen the owners big £50,000+ rolls royce or whatever it is parked next door to the restaurant with the TAYYAB number plate... if he can afford that he can afford to inject some basic hygiene standards into his restaurant... If someone eats there and isnt ill the next day then please let us know - it was a great restaurant until the trendies started arriving there in their droves and the quality went right down.

Richard D. wrote:
> (martin) wrote in
>
> > For what it's worth i used to live practivally next door to Tayyabs
> > and ate there at least three or four times a week for a year (the food
> > is incredible). I was never made ill (I left the area a year ago).
> > Recommend it highly. Also sweet and spicy and gram bangla, both on
> > Brick lane.
>
> I'm not the most adventurous of curry-eaters, but I had a very simple
take-
> away chicken dish from sweet and spicy in Brick Lane that was wrapped in a
> paratha (if I've got my terminology right!) that was one of the most
> fragrant, tasty things I've had from a take-away. Full of different
> flavours.
>
> Richard
>

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youre damn right there is! i was completely ill, violently so and so were some people i recommended it to. i feel totally disgusted that this restaurant i used to trust now knowingly serve salmonella-ridden dirty food to a paying public. heres an idea... you go and spend your money there and take some family and friends with you and then tell us all how you feel the next day? i would love to hear your feedback. I have eaten in a few quality restaurants for a very long time and NEVER had food poisoning (apart from in india)  - 3 times out of 3 from tayyabs in the space of a few weeks is a total disgrace in anybody's book - and any restaurant with that kind of record deserves to go bust. simple.

Martin wrote:
> Pt wrote:
>
> > i hope tayyabs goes bust if its going to serve dirty food to a paying
> > public... you have seen the owners big £50,000+ rolls royce or whatever
it
> > is parked next door to the restaurant with the TAYYAB number plate...
>
> Don't you think a more productive thing to do would be to let the
> owners know that there is something wrong and let them try and fix it
> rather than trying to make them go bust? There is something about your
> posts that seem very emotional - even personal - about this whole
> matter.
>
>
> martin

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Colin B. wrote:
> Someone wrote:
> > Colin B. wrote:
>
> > > One area in central London worth a visit is Drummond Street (Euston
> > > area) this has a string of reasonably priced restaurants, a couple of
> > > which specialise in South Indian stuff and do excellent dosais.
> > >
> >
> > Some good stuff up there, particularly the Diwana Bhel Poori house.
>
> Yes, that would be my choice too.
>
> I think the more mainstream restaurants have fixed price buffets on
> certain days---is Chutneys one of those?---good value if you are hungry
> but I'd still go for a bhel poori and a dosai.
>
> Colin

Chutneys in Drummond Street, Euston, is my second favourite vegetarian Indian restaurant, buffet is 5.95 (eat as much as you want) all day Saturday/Sunday.  Food excellent, wide choice, including not curried vegetables & salad on a separate table too.  3 different sweets to choose from on the buffet. (Or have all 3!)

Opens at midday, but be warned if you get there at 1pm it is very busy. Great food.

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In article , MattStan
Someone wrote:
>> I'll be in London in the next 2 weeks.
>
>Hi,
>
>I hope I'm not too late. You'll be hard pressed to find a better curry
>restaurant than Chowki in the 'West End' / Soho. It serves real Indian
>food

I see it's related to Mela on Shaftesbury Avenue, which I rate highly. Have a look at http://www.melarestaurant.co.uk/