chegrimandi
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rasa is very good - used to go there often when lived in stoke newington. It's really delicious.
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rasa is very good - used to go there often when lived in stoke newington. It's really delicious.
Mr Retro
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I didn't like it the fist time either but now it's my favorite
When I'm back in London I stay up in that direction and always check Tayyabs first. It's best early on a Monday or Tuesday evening when it's not manically crowded.
Their "dry meat" dish is one of the best plates of food in any restaurant in London
rasa is well nice but it's not like having a LAMB VINDALOO DOWN THE LANE
I cant bnelieve anyone would thng Kastooris is the best, theres a reason its always empty
They're weirdly touchy about whether you've booked or not, even when it is empty.
Also a bit of a hotel lounge atmos, but I think the food's exquisite. Not mega-portions, though.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
just to re-iterate.
If you want a good curry, go into Whitechapel and go to Tayyabs or Lahore Kebab House. It'll be cheaper, BYOB and you can walk back to Brick Lane for the bars and that (it's less than 10 mins walk).
I'd walk down to Tayyabs (noticing the bell foundry that built the liberty bell of American Independance fame, and the small Synagog in the shadow of the east london mosque on the way), and if the queues are very long, just walk down that street which ends at Tayyabs and you'll get to Lahore's.
Not much in it between them, but my British Indian other half rates the food at Lahore's as slightly better.
If you want a good curry, go into Whitechapel and go to Tayyabs or Lahore Kebab House. It'll be cheaper, BYOB and you can walk back to Brick Lane for the bars and that (it's less than 10 mins walk).
I'd walk down to Tayyabs (noticing the bell foundry that built the liberty bell of American Independance fame, and the small Synagog in the shadow of the east london mosque on the way), and if the queues are very long, just walk down that street which ends at Tayyabs and you'll get to Lahore's.
Not much in it between them, but my British Indian other half rates the food at Lahore's as slightly better.
Mr Retro
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Thats interesting. I have them 3rd from Tayyabs, Mirsch and Lahore. Mainly because I don't go in for rice and prefer bread. Lahore pre-cook theirs so thats why they are 3rd in my book.
Though Lahore put a spice in their spinich dishes that makes them sublime. It's a kind of large black pellet and gives it nearly a spearminty taste. Does anybody know what it is? If I feel like a curry with rice I go to Lahore for the Lamb Saag.
vanityvehicle
larrikin
One place worth going to on Brick Lane itself is Le Taj - pretentious name but they have some proper Bengali/Bangladeshi dishes and some more unusual Indian stuff than the usual bhunas and kormas...
lighterthief
Well-Known Member
Geeta's on Willesden Lane for superb south Indian food at unbelievably cheap prices - dosas, iddly, sambar etc - almost feels like you are eating in someone's front room. A real gem.
19sixtysix
Bring me sunshine
Is that the south Indian one opposite the station?
No a bit further along, on the opposite side of the main road from Somerfield.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
really? they look pretty uncooked before they are put in the tandoor oven at Lahore. Not that I've actually gone into the kitchen and checked, but you can see the baking process as you stand in the queue. But I prefer the garlic naans at Tayyabs, even though their excellence has ruined the majority of naans I've had elsewhere.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
I haven't been in the kitchen either to be fair. But their breads are kind of flaky and chalky around the edges which would indicate they have been cooked in advance I would have thought?
Might be wrong but they are third best against the other 2 restaurants.
Ask your girlfriend about the spice I'm trying to identify
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Tayyabs and Lahore are both Pakistani restaurants, unless you're talking British Ruled India.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Yes, yes I know. She's from a Gujurati muslim background. I'd still trust her opinion of Pakistani curries over mine, though.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Ask your girlfriend about the spice I'm trying to identify
we can't identify it, sorry.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Well, of course, hence me rating tayyabs and lahore's (both of whome I introduced to her) above the places on Brick Lane, although I still love sweet and spicey. But I've not grown up in the traditions of indian subcontinental cooking (I know there is large variation between the regions, but still)
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
lahore is pakistani (or leeds/bradford), sweet and spicy is punjabi/(or brick lane), cafe naz is aspirational(bangla-town) 
ash
Inittogether
I used to go to sweet and spicy some years ago and really liked the food. Returned today and was very disappointed the food was bland and had a strange tang to it. I am giving up on Brick Lane as this was the only place I thought was good. It seems to be only catering for the tourist market - shame.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I would say Tayabs. Book though. Or slip the fella a fiver.
ash
Inittogether
I wonder if it’s changed from when I was last there about 20 years ago. You couldn’t book then. I see on their website they are selling merch
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
To update on recs above, sweet 'n spicy closed down a while back, alas.
ash
Inittogether
Sounds an interesting option
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