A list of restaurants
I have no idea but I am ALL IN!
What’s cosmo?
It’s an alcoholic drink made famous in Sex & The City. The color is pretty much the same here and the bottle says something close to “cosmo” so just a guess here.
If you’d ever like to make one, Ed….
2 oz Vodka
.5 lime
.5 Cointreau
splash cranberry
garnish with a tampon
It actually sounds very Ed.
Really does!
Not a restaurant, but posting here because it doesn’t really deserve a thread of its own, but I can’t recommend these enough for your Indian home cooking, they’re finally available in England: https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/corporate/story/bengalurus-id-fresh-food-will-now-sell-parotas-in-several-cities-of-us-and-uk-330837-2022-04-22
Perfect for any kerala/madras coconut based curries. Don’t do them with chicken tikka masala ffs, that’s meant for naans.
Do we have these with our kormas instead of poppadoms and chips, rhousedawg?
Smallman1 I can confirm this is a fantastic place to eat and the future model for this type of eating out
Table for 4, menu for all the different places to get food from, order it all from the app and it gets delivered to your table quickly. Plus drinks get delivered.
As a group we get to eat a combination of food at different restaurants but sit at one table and not move
Hope you enjoy
Sounds ace!
What were the highlights?
RichM I can confirm this is a fantastic place to eat and the future model for this type of eating out
Table for 4, menu for all the different places to get food from, order it all from the app and it gets delivered to your table quickly. Plus drinks get delivered.
As a group we get to eat a combination of food at different restaurants but sit at one table and not move
Hope you enjoy
This has basically been around for 30 years and is called a ‘food court’. There’s a really good one in the Trafford Centre which has Spud-u-Like, Chopstix and a Burger King.
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-si- Can have them in a variety of ways, si.
Besides coconut based, South Indian curries, you could also do it with a semi gravy vegetable/egg dish.
You could also use them for kati rolls - spread an egg on one side, once flipped and cooked, you can fill it with mint chutney, shredded pickled chilli onions, grilled chicken tikka kebabs, and roll it up. Just had that for lunch yesterday.
Trust me, whoever is cooking in your house will be amazed at how easy they are to make. Literally just throw them on a pan with a little ghee, 3 minute job at best. Can focus on making your curries with love because this will be so easy.
Parathas are my favourite carb/bread, crispy, flakey and yummy. you guys should eventually get the dosa batter from the same brand, that’s also highly recommended.
Also swerve papads and chips with parathas, they’re already quite heavy and you’ll already get a lot of crisp with it texture wise.
Dubman Malabar is the way to go, the wheat ones are ok, but can be a little too thick. I’m just assuming ready made parathas aren’t available out there.
The Malaysians know what’s up: https://rasamalaysia.com/roti-canai-roti-paratha-recipe/
I generally don’t judge whether the masalas are pre made or home made, some of the Shan stuff have been very good to me. But yeah, there’s is a difference for the better when it’s made at home.
RichM The drinks and especially the wine are fucking awful in these places
Along_the_Wire Not enough Campo Viejo for young Grant!
Along_the_Wire had a decent ipa and negroni there last night, didn’t look at the wine options.
The Ernst and Gallo Zinfandel is a winner
The Hardys chardonnay also sensational.
I wouldn’t trust Grant, this is what he suggested I pair with sea bass…
He told me to pair my roast beef with a Beaujolais a few weeks ago.
Almost fell off my chair.
bosstrabs but you don’t get taken to a table and can order your chicken chow mien from chopstix and a baked potato with beans and cheese from spud u like, plus a negroni, all from one app and it gets bought to your table. No walking to each place individually and paying at each place separately.
RichM But it’s only a matter of time before that happens at a conventional food court (QR code scanning for orders from different vendors).
There are loads of these setups in malls here in Beijing, I give it about 6 months before places like the Arndale or Trafford Centre are doing the same.
Actually, for the UK being slow on the uptake with stuff like this, I would say it’s not that the technology’s not there, but people are a bit more resistant to embrace fully cashless, whereas people in Asia just seem to have no qualms whatsoever about doing everything through apps and digital wallets as convenience seems more important to them than all the data issues.
Thanks Dave.
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Yes but people in Asia are also happy to pay to fuck 14 year olds and call it legal. Aren’t they David? Or maybe we are just slow on the uptake?
Oh Ian McBanter, he’s the bantiest Ian in toon!
Imagine if you got paying for minors and miners mixed up! You’d find yourself in a right old pickle.
Reckon you’d still indulge.
When do you create a sockpuppet to attack Smallman and log in and out of that and your regular account, conversing with yourself for a whole year again, Ian?
They do that in Locanda Locatelli.
Meant to be sensational by all accounts.