National Curry Week: Mancunians share where to go for curry in Manchester

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National Curry week takes place from October 2-8 and this year is the 25th year celebrating the tasty dish.  Manchester is well known for its range of cuisine in the city centre and beyond, and there is one place in the city-region which is synonymous with south Asian food - the curry mile.  A stretch of Wilmslow Road in Rusholme is home to some of the best and older Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi restaurants in Manchester.  The restaurants started opening in the 50s and 60s as south Asian immigrants arrived in Manchester to work in the city's textile industry.  The curry mile is well-known to people around the region and the term was established in the 1980s.  Manchester is also home to many other restaurants, and the city centre has chain restaurants such as Dishoom, a place which has become very popular in recent years after a site opened here in 2018.

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00:00 National Curry Week takes place from the 2nd to the 8th of October and this year is the

00:05 25th annual celebration of the tasty dish. Manchester is well known for its range of

00:11 cuisine in the city centre and beyond. And there is one place in the city region which

00:15 is synonymous with South Asian food, the Curry Mile. A stretch of Wilmslow Road in Rushome

00:21 is home to some of the best and older Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi restaurants in Manchester.

00:29 The restaurant started opening in the 50s and 60s as South Asian immigrants arrived

00:34 in Manchester to work in the city's textile industry. The Curry Mile is well known to

00:39 people around the region and the term was established in the 1980s. But Manchester is

00:45 also home to many other restaurants and the city centre has chains such as De Shoom, a

00:51 place which has become very popular in recent years after a site opened here in 2018.

00:56 "Oh, thank you everyone. That was good curry from time to time, especially when you're

01:01 recovering from a hangover or something like that. But yeah, in terms of Manchester, I

01:05 tend to go to De Shoom, just around the corner from where I live, so it's not too bad. But

01:09 also at bars, can't beat a massive family-sized garlic naan from there. It's just down the

01:15 road from Beaton Tower, it's nice down there." "I would say at bars as well, but in terms

01:20 of curry, I love curry. I think my go-to stuff are tikka masala. But yeah, recommendations

01:25 are great for fat bars. Really good, you get these huge naans that are like this high,

01:30 thank God. Really good." "I make it at home. When I eat out, I eat at Boudjon in

01:35 Falesworth. I've eaten there for years. And my favourite dish I would say is Bombay Aloo,

01:42 because I love my potatoes because I'm Irish, and Chicken Tikka. It's family run. We know

01:48 the family, we've gone there for years. It's fresh, it's tasty, and very often JB, who

01:54 runs it, experiments his dishes with us, so we get to taste lots of new dishes." "Dish

02:00 Room, it's just a really nice place to eat, and it's quite authentic, and the setting's

02:05 nice, and it's not like a typical curry house that you get in the curry mile. It's a bit

02:10 more bushy. I mean, obviously, predominantly, it's always been up on the curry mile, but

02:17 there seems to be a few more city centre, rather than on the curry mile, so a little

02:23 bit out of the bush. So yeah, it's sort of like growing and I like the taste of spice and stuff."

02:29 "Big tradition, yeah, it's absolutely lovely. Love it, yeah, definitely. All of it, just

02:34 loved it. First time, it was only a couple of weeks ago. Been waiting to go for a long

02:39 time now, but yeah, I'll definitely be back. It's really good."

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