This photo was taken when K and I were there in October, we are looking forward to taking our DHs here.
http://www.milanorestaurant.co.uk/welcome1.html
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Updated as we won't be with A in London - but can still check out the sushi place in Sefridges in Birmingham. The sushi is on a conveyer belt and you grab what you want and then pay by the colour of the empty bowls in front of you.
For A - http://www.yosushi.com/
Balti Triangle
This is definitely on the agenda for DH and myself (and anyone else who is game in our party)!
This is an excerpt from today's Globe and Mail travel section:
"Dunking a crisp chunk of sweet Peshwari naan bread – studded with raisins and almonds and glazed in honey – into my private pot of spicy red-sauced chicken chana balti, I'm inclined to agree. Sizzling and aromatic, this is like no curry I've ever tasted.
We're sitting in the cozy Shahi Nan Kabab, one of Munro's favourite Birmingham balti houses, along the edge of the famed Balti Triangle in south Birmingham. There are more than 40 balti houses in this mainly Kashmiri Muslim neighbourhood, where Pakistani fruit and vegetable markets, sweet houses and posh dress shops filled with glittering bridal lehenga crowd the high streets. It's hard to pin down the exact origins of the balti curry, but with more Pakistani expats in Birmingham than anywhere else in the world, it's no surprise that it's a popular dish.
Munro, who grew up in this neighbourhood, says balti houses – a kind of fast, casual curry joint – began popping up in the 1970s, to serve a mainly male immigrant population, drawn to Birmingham for work. "
It is only a 10 minute cab ride from the hotel. Here is a link to the official Balti Triangle site http://www.baltitriangle.com/what.html
Side trips will include Nottingham and Sherwood Forest.
Do you think it's serendipity that today's paper had several articles on Birmingham?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/gold-rush-in-birmingham/article1513244/
It's 3:49 a.m. and my eyes are blurry. Please help. What am I looking at, grins.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you up so early? It is a sushi bar on a conveyer belt. You grab what you want and then pay by the colour of the bowls you accumulate.
ReplyDeleteI'm generally up at 4 a.m. as I am at my computer, working, at 5:30. Good news is I'm done for the day at 2 PM while there's still sunshine and a little life left in me to enjoy it, grins.
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