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The Place curries flavour with MPs

6:10pm Saturday 28th January 2012 in News By Katie Bond

Justin Tomlinson hands over the curry award from the House of Commons to Curry Place owner Mahmod Ali, centre, and assistant manager Beetoshoke De Justin Tomlinson hands over the curry award from the House of Commons to Curry Place owner Mahmod Ali, centre, and assistant manager Beetoshoke De

A RESTAURANT in Rodbourne has curried favour with judges after it was highly commended by the people who run the country.

The Curry Place, in Rodbourne Road, was recognised in The Tiffin Cup, an annual Parliamentary competition. Although it didn’t win the 2012 cup, it was highly commended.

The restaurant, which is in its 18th year, was nominated by North Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson and yesterday he presented the owners with a chef’s jacket and certificate.

Mr Tomlinson said: “Each Member of Parliament is allowed to nominate their favourite restaurant within their constituency, and I was proud to nominate this restaurant – not just on behalf of myself, but on behalf of family, friends and councillors who often eat here and talk very highly of it.

'The Tiffin Cup is the most popular Parliamentary competition; it’s with great pride that we choose our favourite place to eat'

Justin Tomlinson MP

“The Tiffin Cup is the most popular Parliamen-tary competition; it is with great pride that the Members of Parliament put forward their favourite places to eat.

“I try to spread myself around all the different restaurants on offer, but this is certainly one that is extremely popular with local residents.”

Beeteshoke De, assistant manager, said he was delighted to receive recognition.

“It is brilliant,” he said. “I think what makes us so popular is the hospitality and the welcome that we have given to people that have come here over the past 18 years, and they still come back.

“Obviously the food is so important, but at the same time the service is as important, and there is such a nice, warm atmosphere here.”

Mr De and Curry Place owner Mahmod Ali listed one of their speciality dishes as the khurze lamb, which is served on the bone and can to serve up to four people at a time.

The Curry Place is open from 5.30pm to 12.30am Monday to Thursday, 5.30pm to 1.30am Friday and Saturday, and midday to midnight on Sundays.

For more information visit www.

thecurryplace.co.uk

Comments(12)

Gelatine magic says...
7:26pm Sat 28 Jan 12

"...often eat here and talk very highly of it.", talk very loudly in it, more like. There's nothing worse than being forced to listen to MPs shrieking at each other over a table, poppadum fragments flying back and forth, ties hanging in the chutneys. "oh, I'll go to my favourite restaurant, except I can't as the car park is filled to the brim with MP's Jaguars, Mercedes and BMWs." Perhaps if this place wasn't being frequented by baying government officials drunkenly throwing handfuls of food at the walls, staggering about with filthy ties and jamming up the car park, they would have won.

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Fagin says...
8:26pm Sat 28 Jan 12

For heaven’s sake , the standard of journalism in this excuse of a newspaper just goes from bad to atrocious .

Members of Parliament no longer run this country ; that privilege is now in the gift of half a dozen unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats in Brussels .

All MPs do now is pontificate upon a few chosen projects and at the same time go to great lengths to hide the fact that it is probably the result of an EU directive .

Instead of reporting such trivia as this article , the reporter in question would be better employed in being better informed and then cautioning the readership of real threats that are beginning to impinge on our rapidly
disappearing democratic rights .

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Knobfm says...
9:18pm Sat 28 Jan 12

It's not as good as my pub 'cos they don't sell Arkells.

Tonight I had 4 customers.

Besides the abbreviation for this establishment is TCP.

I bet they even serve people like Walter.

I've never heard of the owner of The Curry Place plugging his business on these threads like I do

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Robfm says...
8:21am Sun 29 Jan 12

Knobfm, not good on facts are you, you must be Walter with another login.

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Knobfm says...
10:29am Sun 29 Jan 12

I am the world's greatest at facts.
Everyone else is Walter.

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Gelatine magic says...
11:46am Sun 29 Jan 12

Once again we are taken by the neck and forced to read how parliamentary scroungers are forcing another struggling cafe to go out of business. Blocking the road with their shiny black cars, stuffed to gunwales with free butter, receipts for 'personal trainers', and empty odour-eater boxes, no doubt. Windows shaking with their outraged screams, naans forced through the letterbox like sad tongues. Every menu ripped and dripping with balti. "we mentioned you for the Tiffin Cup. Give me an extra poppadum to spit at the mirror", "help me hold this shirt up for the photo, make sure you look like you're crying, and crouch to make me appear taller." how would he like it if we went to his kitchen and held aloft one of his wife's shirts? He'd probably enjoy it, sat in his capacious back garden on a child's chair, watching it all unfold in silhouette through a special pair of tofu binoculars. I'd put my foot through it and send him the bill.

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I Too says...
12:07pm Sun 29 Jan 12

I don't like poiticians either :-)

This is a shame because Mr Ali is a very nice chap.

For those interested, he also does nice vegetarian options and fairtrade products.

Sharing a venue with politicians is not my idea of an appetising night out though.

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Hearditallbefore says...
1:12pm Sun 29 Jan 12

Mr Ali is a gentleman and his food is excellent.
I have eaten there numerous times and also have had lots of takeaways which are excellent.
Mr Ali is always polite and does a lot for charitable events as well.
Try his food, it's delicious.

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Gelatine magic says...
1:39pm Sun 29 Jan 12

Mr Ali sounds lovely. By the comments above, it seems like he is a hard working kindly man who provides superlative food. How unfortunate that these suited bullies go through through his restaurant like a dose of salts, ripping his families clothes out of their private drawers, and stretching them out for photographs, causing the staff to squat and cry. To rub salt into the wounds, they then painstakingly smear the food over walls, chairs and fittings. I imagine them congratulating each other in the packed car park afterwards on another 'job well done'. They then drive home to their mansions complete with duck moats, steering with their knees.

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Phantom Poster says...
4:36pm Sun 29 Jan 12

Gelatine magic wrote:
Mr Ali sounds lovely. By the comments above, it seems like he is a hard working kindly man who provides superlative food. How unfortunate that these suited bullies go through through his restaurant like a dose of salts, ripping his families clothes out of their private drawers, and stretching them out for photographs, causing the staff to squat and cry. To rub salt into the wounds, they then painstakingly smear the food over walls, chairs and fittings. I imagine them congratulating each other in the packed car park afterwards on another 'job well done'. They then drive home to their mansions complete with duck moats, steering with their knees.
Due to your posts here and on MANY other threads I presume that you have decided to appoint yourself as resident comedian! Sorry to disappoint you, but it's a very tough crowd here and you ain't really impressing! Please don't give up the day job!

Oh, I'm really looking forward to seeing how you respond to hecklers!

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greenpacer says...
11:06pm Sun 29 Jan 12

I have never heard of this place and nor do I want to frequent it while tories are infesting it !!

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Robfm says...
10:14am Mon 30 Jan 12

Interesting if our MP's didn't recommend somewhere they would be criticised for that.

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