Restaurants and stuff

Almanzil Friday and Saturday nights after jollys or the elmer .best keema bhuna ever happy days of youth

 

@Chippy haha absolutely spot on! A couple of poppadoms, a couple of seekh kebabs, keema bhuna and 3 chappatis - five quid! You see some people just won't be told ( @Morley Bantam ), insisted on having chicken and therefore didn't appreciate the delicacies that Almanzil had to offer

 

Was it that expensive? Seem to recall it was about £2for a curry with chapatties. The shama always gave me the threepenny bits plus heartburn the next day

 

The Shama hasn't changed a bit!

 

Haha do you still get a mid course fight ?

 

To be fair I haven't been to the Shama for a few years now but it still looks the same

 

"From now on I'm demanding that all my salads are doused in rendered bestial blubber."

Latest post on last week's trip to the Moorcock if anyone has 5 mins to kill:

https://wp.me/p3Rnlb-7o8

 

Did you write that review Millario? Sometimes I think places try too hard to make dishes too different or shocking combinations, but from what you say they seem to have got it right......and for £35 too! Before you know it the Rajpoot will be knocking out guinea fowl tikka and snail pakoras with a quails egg on top......and still 3 free chapattis and change from a tenner

 

Aye, one of mine.

Yep some places play on gimmicks too much, & I'd always favour classic cooking done well. That said, I could go in for some of that guineau fowl tikka if the Rajpoot ever gets creative!

 

Apparently shama already does a foul tikka and snail tracks in the loo

 

Haha. After all our happy reminiscing about the Almanzil, its toilets down in the cellar were horrific!

 

Just seen that Patisserie Valerie has gone belly up due to a Black hole in their accounts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46965761

 

Hope we don't discover a black hole in our accounts.....or rather a bigger hole than has already been found. Never went to Patisserie Valerie though. Not really got a sweet tooth. Was it any good?

 

So true but usually too hammered to worry

 

Dunno, it looked a cake and bun shop to me and I don't have a sweet tooth. But the outlets do look good and in Bradford it stood out as , er, "nice". Probably the best looking unit occupied so I hope that the Bradford outlet is one of those that is kept trading, when I've passed it's looked reasonably busy whereas 5 Guys opposite is always dead and on the market....still..

 

The Rajpoot, can somebody clarify it's alcohol policy? Is it a fluid every changing thing? My BIL said he recently took his own beer, the most recent review on TA (below) mentions bring your own alcohol. Yet, I've asked at least three times in person this last 12 months, when I've forgotten the Shimla is shut Mondays, only to be told "No alcohol allowed".

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g672783-d2229997-Reviews-Rajpoot-Shipley_Bradford_West_Yorkshire_England.html

 

Whenever we have asked to bring alcohol in we have been refused too. Never seen anybody drinking in there but have seen one group stepping outside for a drink between courses!

 

Dedication.

 

Speaking of Shama's. The Bingley one is just a glorified pre drinking party before heading up town. Bring your own booze and everyone is just trashed. It's so loud with the influence of alcohol, you can barely hear your mates at your table. Inconsistent as well, had some belting Cuzzer's but had some terrible ones as well from there.

 

Goos stuff at the Waterside in Shipley last night. Only 2 tables in at 7 but by 8 it was pretty much full.

Pigeon to start was a standout dish. (Prob cos it came with a samosa.)