Hoorar a half decent curry!

Sitar Indian Restaurant New Farm, 69 James Street, New Farm QLD 4005, Australia

Success! On my travels with the wife last week, finally found a good curry house in Bris-Vegas.

It’s not traditional Pakistani/Indo-fare like the legend that is Tayyabs in Whitechapel back home (*sigh* I miss Tayyabs), but it was a good Anglo-curry. I’m pretty sure that a vindaloo is meant to have meat AND potatoes in it but you know what, it tasted good so I’ll let it fly. I suggest an official BCC visit for a second opinion and rating.

KKC

Don't cook on the floor. It's rather unsavoury madam!

Sultans Kitchen, 689 Sandgate Rd, Clayfield QLD 4011
Rating: 0 Bhajis out of 5
Attendees: Messrs Lee, Steele, Wilkinson and Ku-Chih

I remain unconvinced that Brisbane has a Sultan, but if we do I am pretty certain that this is not anything to do with him. The food was awful. I mean terrible. The place had a worrying perma-smell of burnt plastic, the toilets in which it looks as though somebody met a grizzly fate were basically a trough in a shed in the car park and I caught the matriarch of the "restaurant" preparing our "food" in a pot on the floor. Avoid like the plague.

KKC

Eccentric Adventures in Ghee

Bombay Dhaba/Bliss, 5/220 Melbourne St, West End (Brisbane) QLD 4101
Rating: 2 Bhajis out of 5
Attendees: Messrs Lee, Muir, Mair, Wilkinson, Troughton, Eteen-Bliss and Ku-Chih

Distinctly average curry house. Really bad starters (I think I got served a Findus Krispy Pancake) but passable mains (if nothing like what you are expecting [generally mystery meat with generic sauce]).

Only saving grace was the eccentric staff (think Bollywood version of Manuel from Faulty Towers) that added a somewhat comedy twist to the evening.‎

KKC

Sultan's Kitchen - Paddington

Date of Visit - March 28th 2007
Attendees - Adrian, Stephen, Steve, Paul, Ollie, Peter
Special notices - Inaugural meeting of the BCC.

The first meeting off the Brisbane Curry Club kicked off with early arrivals sampling a beer in the Paddo tavern on a warm Queensland autumn evening. BYO beers were purchased and entry was made into the Sultan's Kitchen which occupies a prominent location a stones through away from the old Lang Park, Suncorp Stadium.

Poppadom's with"all the condiments" were ordered - and it was at this point that some detected the welcome was not as warm as the weather outside.

Undetered by average poppadums (although the author remembers the condiments to be reasonable), the main orders were placed.

If memory serves it was around this juncture that things started their descent. Some confusion reigned over Adrian's chicken madras equivalent. The food took some time in arriving, and when it did so it failed to produce the warm sensation expected and experienced so many times before in an bona fidae Anglo Indian currry house. (citations required here from club members)

The decor was perhaps more inspiring than the food - if a little confused, but the conveniences were little better than those found on the Blackpool esplanade (a worrying trend that seemed to continue throughout the clubs journey)

Overall a disappointment that the club felt set a low benchmark, which conjured up musings of the socialist D:Ream anthem - "Things Can Only get better"!

The Journey Begins

Welcome to the Brisbane Curry Club. This blog will endeavour to chart the progress of a merry band of Englishmen on a noble quest to find the finest Anglo-Indian curry that Brisbane has to offer.

Whilst we fear the journey will not be easy, and there will be many a trial along the way, we hope in part to save our fellow countrymen from having to make the same culinary and cultural sacrifices, in order to find a simple ruby on a wednesday night.

"Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.” C. Northcote Parkinson 1909-1993.