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. 

Wild Mango, Beckenham

Wednesday 11^th December 2013

The final curry club meeting of 2013 was at Wild Mango in Beckenham. This was previously the site of another Indian restaurant ‘Café Royal’, which never had a particularly good reputation.  Wild Mango sets its sights much higher.

Curry House, West Wickham

Wednesday 13th November 2013

This month’s curry club came around with the minimum of build-up. Curry House doesn’t have much of a reputation and it was with less excitement, more trepidation that the curry clubbers approached this restaurant, possibly fearing the worst.  Instead, what we found was a little gem.

How Clean is Your Curry-House?

After reading a few health inspectors ‘curry house horror stories’ recently, we decided to look into the food hygiene records of local Indian restaurants. 

High Standards: Aspara in India

 

 

Having checked data from the Food Standards Agency’s ratings for Bromley,  we were able to obtain the scores for 60 curry houses in the borough.

The results were surprising and to be honest, disappointing.  Over half of the restaurants we checked were ‘unsatisfactory’.  More than 40% were adjudged to require ‘major improvement’.

It was also a lesson in not judging a book by its cover.  Old-school curry houses,  Belash in Penge  and  Taste of India in Elmers End pulled off impressive 5 out of 5 scores,  while modern, smart looking restaurants Spice Fusion in Biggin Hill  and  Shampan 2 in Bromley fared badly.  They, along with a number of the club’s favourites, scored a meagre 1 out of 5.

Ginger, Hayes

Saturday 10th November 2012

Ginger in Hayes had a visit from an extra-large CCB contingent this week.  Considering most of the 14 strong party had spent the day in various pubs in Bromley town centre, they coped pretty well!