Around West Yorkshire, there are a couple of really very successful Asian restaurant empires. The Mumtaz group are one of them, with two restaurants – a huge place in Bradford and an impressive new dining room on Clarence Dock in Leeds – and a reputation for first rate food. Their bold claim to be ‘world [...]
There are a lot of different types of curry out there, but I tend to stick to the Indian or Pakistani varieties, with maybe the odd Thai green curry every now and again. To me, the Indian sub-continent is the spiritual home of the curry, but that doesn’t mean that other regions don’t make astonishingly [...]
It stands to reason that curry goat is best made with goat, but goat meat can prove difficult to find. I scoured nearly every butcher I knew in the hope of finding it, from my normal, trusted shop right through to the tiny halal places in the back streets of Bradford. Nobody had goat. Nobody [...]
It’s always nice to receive a gift, even more so when it arrives unexpectedly. This recipe came on the side of the paper bag that held my takeaway from the Aagrah in Shipley. It’s a nice little gimmick, and a welcome one given that the Aagrah stands head and shoulders above all other Indian restaurants [...]
Arabica is a small cafe-style restaurant tucked into a basement in Bradford’s student-ville, just across from the University. It’s been open for about eighteen months, and I’ve heard a lot of whispers and rumours about this new, fantastic middle eastern place. Arabica’s is one of those names that seems to have cropped up in too [...]