Pink Garlic, Bromley

Wednesday 11^th June 2014

It was Bromley’s ‘new’ Indian restaurant, Pink Garlic that we paid a visit to this month.  The added punctuation is because Indian food has actually been served here for many years but in its previous incarnations  ‘Ruby’  and the short lived  ‘Indian Ocean’.  Both were good but could not survive the competition with popular Shampan 2, almost next door.

Barabar, Petts Wood

Wednesday 14th May 2014

You could be forgiven for missing Barabar, tucked away as it is, off Petts Wood’s main high street and hidden beneath scaffolding but that would be a shame, as it’s a real gem.

The Urban Rajah

The Urban Rajah is a food writer, cook and traveler. His cookbook, Urban Rajah’s Curry Memoirs commissioned by Headline Publishing is out now and tells the story of his love affair with curry through over 80 familial recipes. A practical, easy to follow and inspirational cookbook, it expresses his family’s food story through the eyes of the men in his family and was nominated for the World Food Awards Cook Book of the year.

Curry Corner, West Wickham

Wednesday 9^th April 2014

Curry Corner is set amongst West Wickham High Street’s mini curry-belt and as the name suggests, is an old school curry house. 

Beckenham Curry Club

Wednesday 12th March 2014

We’re a bit late with this month’s Chilli Diaries review but on the 12^th March our connoisseur’s visited ‘Beckenham Curry Club’ in, er, Beckenham.   This is an unusual sort of place, it’s quite small and the décor is reminiscent of a yuppyish 80’s wine bar.

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The Good Curry Guide's Pat Chapman

Pat Chapman is a food writer, broadcaster and author, best known for founding The Curry Club.  Since 1984 Pat has written 'The Good Curry Guide’, a regularly published guidebook, identifying the UK’s top curry restaurants.  A veteran television presenter, Pat has appeared on  "This Morning",  GMTV,  "The Big Breakfast"  and  the BBC's "Food and Drink"  and  "Good Food”.

To date he has written thirty-four books, with sales topping 1.5 million copies.  Pat is also a contributing editor to Tandoori Magazine.  The Daily Mail’s Rosemary Stark wrote that, Pat Chapman 'is responsible for Baltifying Britain'.

 

 Pat on Lorraine Kelly's GMTV show.