Delight over third curry capital title (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)
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Bradford chefs and restaurant owners celebrate as they beat Glasgow to title
7:29pm Monday 29th October 2012 in News
By Jo Winrow, City Hall Reporter
The Lord Mayor of Bradford Dale Smith with Mohammad Akhtar from Shimla Spice, Amjad Bashir from Zouk and Tahir Iqbal from Aargah in Shipley
Bradford has retained its Curry Capital of Britain title by the “narrowest of margins”, making it the third time the district has held the honour.
The 2012 competition saw both Bradford and four-time winner Glasgow finish with the same number of points from the judges. But the title went to Bradford on a tie break due to it receiving the highest number of votes in the public poll.
Organisers said that the tenth year of the competition was its “greatest ever” and they described Bradford as a city that “seems to eat, breathe and even export curry”.
Comments(9)
justjustice
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9:21pm Mon 29 Oct 12
SinnerSaint
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10:21pm Mon 29 Oct 12
Right...
Punjabi, Gujarati, Nepalese and South Indian food is all out there in abundance elsewhere in the country.
Interesting that Bradford has about a hundred restaurants with hygiene scores of three stars or less and Birmingham which is much bigger only has 19....
Patrick Bateman
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6:33am Tue 30 Oct 12
Fingers crossed for us to retain our crowns for best illegal bazaars, highest density of car washes per capita and top quality textile emporiums!
Avro
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8:01am Tue 30 Oct 12
gfy320
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8:34am Tue 30 Oct 12
octyvrs
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2:05pm Tue 30 Oct 12
gfy320 wrote:Says it all really.
Maybe house prices may start to rise in bradford because people would love to live in the curry capital? DOUBT IT
Sally Way
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3:43pm Tue 30 Oct 12
Ignore some of the above comments I think they envy your success. Might be something to do with the colour of your skin. Still I guarantee they do love currys. (Not the electrical shop)
Shimla Spice, zouk and Aagrah are amongst the best in Bradford.
Albion.
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5:45pm Tue 30 Oct 12
Sally Way wrote:I don't.
Well done guys!
Ignore some of the above comments I think they envy your success. Might be something to do with the colour of your skin. Still I guarantee they do love currys. (Not the electrical shop)
Shimla Spice, zouk and Aagrah are amongst the best in Bradford.
DCarbz says...
7:57pm Mon 29 Oct 12
If that is the case was it ever in doubt?
Well done all concerned.
Ps any chance of the Kashmir exporting their meat bhuna out here?