A BRADFORD restaurant boss says it was great to have a YouTube takeaway star hail their food during a visit.
Sweet Centre Restaurant, based on Lumb Lane, Manningham, has been paid a visit by Danny Malin, the man behind the Rate My Takeaway series on social media.
Danny visits a series of takeaways and restaurants across the country, trying out some of their dishes.
In the 26-minute long review of the Sweet Centre Restaurant’s food, Danny says he was inspired to visit them after they appeared on a BBC TV show last month.
The Sweet Centre was one of five restaurants looking for the title of the best Indian on BBC Two’s ‘Britain’s Top Takeaways’.
Waqar Mughal and Hamayun Arshad, from the Sweet Centre, battled it out against representatives from four other restaurants for the crown of best UK Indian restaurant.
Social media influencer Danny, who has 544,000 subscribers on YouTube, says he is on a mission to find the UK’s best takeaway and asks for his fans to suggest places he should visit to try their food.
In the Rate My Takeaway video, Danny orders and samples the Sweet Centre Restaurant’s masala fish for starters, chicken wings, lamb on the bone with spinach, a fresh orange juice, pula rice, garlic naan and a dessert featuring ice-cream.
Danny tries the food on a table and chair he sets up outside the restaurant and is impressed by the dishes.
In the video, Danny said: “The fish masala is beautiful. It’s absolutely gorgeous.
The lamb on the bone is bursting with flavour and melted in my mouth
“The chicken wings were the best I have had in a while, they are bursting with flavour. I really enjoyed it. There is a lot of history in this place.”
Mr Mughal, chef and manager at the Sweet Centre Restaurant whose grandfather set up the business in 1964, said he enjoyed Danny’s visit.
He said: “It was great for us and good to be on YouTube.
“He said it was the best food he has had, especially the lamb on the bone.
“He has half a million subscribers on YouTube, so it’s very good. It was genuinely unexpected when Danny called us to say he was coming. He was a genuinely good guy.
“I’m sure we will have people coming in on the back of this. We have already had people ringing up and asking us if it was the place that Danny came to.”
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